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Rómsky inštitút – Roma Institute (RI) is a non-governmental non-for-profit organisation founded in 2007. As a specialised information and documentation centre on Romany reality in Slovakia, it gathers, processes and disseminates information on Roma, their life, history and social conditions. The Roma Institute provides public services focused on improvement of life of Roma, local development of territories populated by Roma and amelioration of cohabitation of Roma and non-Roma populations. With this aim, the Roma Institute provides municipalities and Roma or pro-Roma grassroots NGOs with technical assistance for community development strategic planning, design and implementation of EU structural funds and local civic society development. The Roma Institute is National Partner of the Open Society Institute (OSI, Budapest) for implementation of the Making the Most EU Funding for Roma program in Slovakia. Within the program's initiative Project Generation Facility, more than 67 individual projects and 35 comprehensive projects (consisting of two to six individual projects) aimed at Roma inclusion have been generated for Slovak municipalities and NGOs. The Roma Institute also promotes volunteering for the sake of Romany pupils and students. With generous support of the Orange Foundation, the Roma Institute operates a tutoring and scholarship program Big B/S. Some nine volunteers (university students) provide 22 Romani children with individual support; children receive also pocket money for their activities. The Roma Institute also provides consultations, analyses and evaluations of public policies and initiatives aimed at Roma inclusion. Currently, the Roma Institute helps municipalities to design their local social inclusion and anti-poverty policies. It also performs an evaluation of Slovak governmental policy of Roma housing on the local level, including identification and dissemination of best practices, and an evaluation of six projects aimed at directly preventing and/or reversing the streaming of Romani children in special education in Slovakia funded by the Roma Education Fund (REF). The Roma Institute is heir of the intellectual property of the former InfoROMA Foundation. The InfoROMA Foundation was among first bodies professionally devoted to Roma-related issues in Slovakia. It has established an information centre and library specialized in Roma studies, including the scientific heritage of Dr. Emília Horváthová (1931-1996), the first Slovak romologist. The InfoROMA has developed and implemented several pilot training and education projects mainstreamed later into the public policies. Tens of young Roma have been trained and today they work as professionals in the public administration, universities and international organizations. The InfoROMA Foundation has also conducted a mapping of Roma settlements in Slovakia and implemented several pre-accession EU projects PHARE.) |
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