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Annex 1

STRATEGY OF THE GOVERNMENT OF RO MANIA FOR THE INCLUSION OF THE
ROMANIAN CITIZENS BELONG ING TO ROMA MINORITY
FOR 2015-2020

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3CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 5
2. RELEVANT GENERAL INFORMATION …………………………………………………………………… 7
3. PRIORITIES, POLICIES, EXISTING LEGAL FRAMEWORK ……………………………………. 11
4. CURRENT CHALLENGES IN KEY DOMAINS …………………………………………………………. 12
A. Education ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……….12
B. Employment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …..13
C. Health ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………14
D. Housing and small infrastructure ………………………………………………………………………………………..15
E. Culture ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………..16
F. Infrastructure and social services ……………………………………………………………………………………….16
5. SCOPE, OBJECTIVES AND TARGET GROUP OF THE STRATEGY …………………………. 17
6. PRINCIPLES …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 18
7. DIRECTIONS FOR ACTION …………………………………………………………………………………… 19
A. Education ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……….19
B. Employment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …..21
C. Health ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………22
D. Housing and small infrastructure ………………………………………………………………………………………..24
E. Culture ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………..25
F. Infrastructure and social services ……………………………………………………………………………………….26
8. RESULTS AND INDICATORS OF PROPOSED ACTIONS ………………………………….. 28
A. Education ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……….28
B. Employment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …..31
C. Health ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………32
D. Housing and small infrastructure ………………………………………………………………………………………..35
E. Culture ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………..38
F. Infrastructure and social services ……………………………………………………………………………………….40
9. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS…………………………………………………………………………… 43
10. LEGAL IMPLICATIONS …………………………………………………………………………………….. 44
11. CRITICAL STAGES AND RESPONSIBLE INSTITUTIONS ……………………………….. 45
12. THE MECHANISM FOR MONITORING AND ASSESSING THE STRATEGY ….. 49
13. THE MECHANISM FOR REVI SING THE STRATEGY………………………………………. 51
Annex 2 – Sectoral measure plans ………………………………………………………………………………….. 1
A. Education ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………2
B. Employment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …..28
C. Health ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………32
D. Housing and small infrastructure ………………………………………………………………………………………..41
E. Culture ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………..44
F. Social infrastructure and services ……………………………………………………………………………………….52
Annex 3 – Types of performance indicators for the priorities of the Strategy …………………. 59
A. Education ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……….59
B. Employment ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …..64
C. Health ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. ……………65
D. Housing and small infrastructure ………………………………………………………………………………………..66
E. Culture ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. …………..67
F. Social infrastructure and services ……………………………………………………………………………………….70

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ABBREVIATIONS

COR County Office for Roma (COR)
DIR Department for Inter-ethnic Relationships
EC European Commission
ESF European Social Fund
ESIF European Structural and Investment Funds
EU European Union (EU)
GSG General Secretariat of the Government
IMCP Institute for Mother and Child Pr otection "Prof. Dr. Alfred Rusescu"
MARD Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
MC Ministry of Culture
MCR Ministerial Co mmission for Roma
MESR Ministry of Education and Scientific Research
MFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs
MH Ministry of Health
MIA Ministry of Internal Affairs
MJ Ministry of Justice
MLFSPE Ministry of Labour, Family, So cial Protection and the Elderly
MPF Ministry of European Funds
MPF Ministry of Public Finance
MRDPA Ministry of Regional Developm ent and Public Administration
NAE National Agency for Employment (NAE)
NAPCRA National Authority for the Prot ection of Child Rights and Adoption
NAR National Agency for Roma (NAR)
NCFD National Council for Fighting Against Discrimination
NCRC National Centre for Roma Culture
NDP National Development Plan
NRDP National Rural Development Programme
NSI National Statistical Institute
RFSD Romanian Fund for Social Development
RSNAR Regional Structures for th e National Agency for Roma
SAMIC Strategy Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee
SOP HRD Sectoral Operational Programme “Human Resources Development”
The Strategy Strategy of the Government of Romania for the Social Inclusion of
Romanian Citizens belonging to Ro ma Minority for the period 2015-2020

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1. INTRODUCTION
Under article 6 (cc) of Law No 292/2011 (Law on social security), “the process of social
inclusion represents all multidimensional measures and actions taken in the field of social
protection, employment, housing, education, h ealth, information-communication, mobility,
security, justice and culture, mean t to support the fight against social exclusion and to ensure the
active participation of persons to all economic, social, cultural and political aspects of society”.
Social inclusion is defined in EU documents as a “process which ensures that those at risk
of poverty and social exclusion ga in the opportunities and resources necessary to participate fully
in economic, social and cultural li fe and to enjoy a standard of living and well-being that is
considered normal in the society in which they live. It ensures that they have greater participation
in decision making which affects their liv es and access to their fundamental rights”1.
The social inclusion policy of the Governme nt of Romania has set the general objective
of increasing the overall st andard of living of the popula tion and stimulating work-related
earnings by facilitating employ ment and promoting public polic ies aimed at all vulnerable
groups: Roma minority, people with disabilities , women, street childre n, 18-year-old young
people leaving state protection in stitutions, the elderly, etc.
The social inclusion of the Roma minority requires a holistic approach, a planned process
and a concerted action, followed by the adopti on and implementation of specific strategies,
public policies, programmes and projects. The Government of Romania considers Roma social inclusion an issue that should be
reflected in numerous fields of activity on the agenda of each cen tral and local public institution.
These institutions and the civil society play a deci sive role in the process of social development
and contribute to improving the situation of the Roma.
According to the European Commission Communication of 2011 An EU Framework for
National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020 , the inclusion of citizens belonging to
Roma minority is one of the most imperative social issues in Europe. While primary
responsibility for the social and economic inclusion of Roma minor ity citizens rests with public
authorities, Roma inclusion is a two-way process , which requires a change of mindsets of the
majority of the people as well as of the member s of Roma community, a challenge that requires
firm actions to be carried out within an active dialogue with the Roma representatives, both at
national and EU levels. The new strategic approach for increasi ng social inclusion of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority aims at: (1) Understanding the desirability of public inte rvention for improving th e situation of the
Roma, not only for justice and social protectio n reasons, but also fo r reasons relating to
sustainable economic and social development of Romania – and thus the human resource
provided by the Roma population, which is am ong the youngest in the EU, becomes a key
challenge. This aspect is of great importanc e especially in the context of identifying
solutions against the sharp fall in the birth rate in the last decades, taking into consideration
the major challenges for maintaining the balance of the pension schemes in the following decades. The costs of non-intervention are ve ry high. Therefore, in 2010, the World Bank
estimated that the loss in annual productivity due to Roma exclusion was 887 million euro
for Romania
2;
(2) Ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of public intervention with a view to improving
the condition of the Romanian citizens belongi ng to Roma minority through an integrated

1Joint report by the Commission and the Council on social inclusion , 2004, p.8.
2http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTROMA/Resource s/Economic_Costs_Roma_Exclusion_Note_Final_RO.pdf

6approach, setting as a priority the educati onal inclusion and equa l opportunities for all
children;
(3) The need of a permanent partnership with th e civil society at all the stages of public
intervention, both at the centr al public administration level and, especially, at the local
administration level;
(4) A type of intervention adapted to the social characteristics of some sub-groups of the
Roma minority, including traditional commun ities, taking into account the social,
economic and cultural gaps within this minority.
This Strategy represents a necessary revision of the 2011 Stra tegy in the light of the new
social realities and challenges (which are underlined by data recently provided by the
census of the population and housing – 2011), of the European objectives assumed in the
Europe 2020 Strategy (the national objective assumed thro ugh the National Reform Programme
aims at reducing the number of people at ri sk of poverty or social exclusion by 580,000 until
2020), and of the new context brought about by th e possibility of accessi ng European funds in
the period 2014-2020. This Strategy shall be applied in close correlation with the implementation of European structural and investment funds that aim at improvi ng social inclusion.
This Strategy ensures the continui ty of the measures taken by the strategies of the
Government of Romania for improv ing the condition of the Roma.

The consultation process for Strategy revision
The revision process was based on extens ive consultation of all relevant actors:
representatives of central and local public authorities, civil society organizations, academics
representatives, representatives of diplomatic missions in Bucharest, as well as experts of the
World Bank or different UN structures, etc.

The consultation process for the Strategy re vision started in Marc h 2013 and was to be
carried out in several stages be tween March 2013 and December 2014.

The implementation duration
The Strategy will be implemente d during the period 2015-2020. The document
is accompanied by the measure plans relating to each main directi on of action for the
period 2015-2016 and by the expected result s according to the measures implemented.
Depending on the developments at national an d European level, the Strategy will be
revised, adjusted and supplemented, and the speci fic action plans will be updated based on the
results and recommendations of the monitoring and evaluation process.

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2. RELEVANT GENERAL INFORMATION

Description of the current context
According to the results of the populat ion and housing census carried out in 20113
(hereinafter referred to as th e census), 621,573 Romanian citizens declared to be Roma, which
represents a percentage of 3.3 % of a total of 18,884,831 persons fo r whom the ethnicity could be
determined and who are part of the stable population of Romania4. The estimations regarding the
number of Romanian citizens be longing to the Roma minority ar e not consistent, since, for
example, the Council of Europe advances a number of 1,850,000 people5, while other surveys
conducted by NAR and the World Bank6 estimated the number of people living in compact
communities with a high Roma prevalence to not more than one million people.
Most (63 %) of the people who declared themselves as Roma live in the rural area, and only a little over 230,000 of the self -declared Roma live in the urban area (37 %). From the
people who declared to be Roma at the census , 244,503 (39.3 %) declared their main language as
the Romani language. The rest of the identified Roma, according to the census, declared that
their main language was: Romanian – 342,674 persons, 55.1 % of the Roma; Hungarian –
32,777 persons, 5.2 % of the Roma; 1,127 persons – Turkish, 86 persons – Tatar, 59 persons –
Serbian, etc. The highest number of Roma who indicated Romany as their main language was
recorded in the rural area (about 150,000 pers ons – 61.3 % of the 244,503 persons who declared
Romany as their main language). Since education is a key area in ensuring the sustainability of intervention for the social
inclusion of the Romanian citiz ens belonging to the Roma minority, it is important to make a
comparative analysis of the situations of th e Roma, Romanian and Hungarian populations, as
they result from the census data:

The educational structure of the three most numerous ethnic groups in Romania
Higher % Post-
secondary
+ Upper-
secondary % Lower-
secondary% Primary % Did not
graduate
school, but
literate %Did not
graduate
school and
illiterate % Total
Romanians 2,254,966 14.8 6,442,610 42.3 4,043,714 26.6 2,101,700 13.8 225,858 1.5 153,221 1.0 15,222,069
Hungarians 114,470 10.2 517,794 46.2 341,661 30.5 122,939 11.1 14,104 1.3 9,020 0.8 1,119,988
Roma 3,397 0.7 44,111 9.2 170,465 35.7 163,231 34.2 29,031 6.1 67,480 14.1 477,715
Total 2,372,833 7,004,515 4,555,840 2,387,870 268,993 229,721 16,819,772
Source : Calculations made by the Directorate for Governmental Strategies (Government of Romania) on the basis of
2011 census data. According to census data reporting standards, the number of people for each education level is
indicated for the population aged over 10 years.

Despite progress made in the last 10 years following affirmative action and other initiatives implemented in Romania, there re mains a constant gap between the Roma and
non-Roma in terms of achieved educational background. Therefore, from the people who
declared themselves as Romanians, 14.8 % gra duated higher education, and from those who
declared themselves as Hungarians, 10.2 % gradua ted higher education, while within the group
declaring themselves as Roma, the proportion is of just 0.7 % (3,3 97 Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority having higher education were id entified in the census).

3 http://www.recensamantromania.ro/rezultate-2/
4 According to 2011 census, the stable population of Romania is 20,121,641 persons, but ethnicity could not be
determined for 1,236,810 persons.
5
6Dumitru Sandu, Roma Communities of Romania – A Map of Poverty Based on the PROROMI Survey.
World Bank, Bucharest, July 2005, available at:
http://www.anr.gov.ro/docs/statistici/PROROMI__Comunitatile_de_Romi_din_Romania_187.pdf

8 The illiteracy situation also requires the continuation of efforts to increase the degree of
educational inclusion of Romanian citizen s belonging to the Roma minority. Thus, the
percentage of Romanian-declared citizens aged above 10 years who are illiterate is 1 % (and
illiteracy among those who declared themselves as Hungarians is of 0.8 %); in contrast, illiteracy
among people who declared themselves as Roma and aged above 10 years is of 14.1 % (one in seven people). Moreover, it can be noted that, from the total of illiterate persons in Romania
(229,721), a share of 27.4 % (67,480 people) is represented by peopl e who declared themselves
as Roma, in a context in which the proportion of the Roma minority is 3.3 % in the total
Romanian population for whom ethnicity could be determined at the 2011 census. Even if we
only take into account these data, there is a st rong need to continue and supplement specific
measures designed to increase the educationa l development of people belonging to the
Roma minority as an essential means to achieve their social inclusion.
As regards employment and integration on th e labour market, it should be mentioned that
the population of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority ge nerally have a lower
educational level than the major ity population has, which limits their access on the labour market
where the demand for skilled labour is on the increase. The employment rate for people belonging to the Roma minority was estimated in 2011 at 36.3 %
7, whereas the same rate for
non-Roma population was 58.5 %8. According to the same sour ces, the unemployment rate for
people belonging to the Roma minority was 48.6 % in 2011, as compared to only 7.4 % at
national level.

Comparative presentation of some socio- professional parameters for citizens
belonging to the Roma minority and the general population

Roma (2011) (%) The whole population
(2011) (%)
Employment rate 36.3 58.5
Unemployment rate 48.6 7.4
Employment rate among young people (15-24
years) 73.5 23.8
Professional status – employees 24.1 67.3
Professional status – self-employed with or
without employees, other 59 31.5
Part-time employees 65.4 10.4
SOURCE : National Statistical Institute – table taken from the Civil Society Report on the Implementation of the
National Strategy for Roma Integration and of the Ac tion Plan of the Decade in ROMANIA in 2012, p.72.

Only one in ten Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority had a stable job in the
last two years, and 52 % declared that they had not found any job wi thin that period. Roma
women have a poor participation on the labour market, with onl y 27 % of them being employed
and 36 % of them declaring that they are looking for a job.
It is important to note that the employment rate of the Ro ma young people is considerably
higher than that of the non-Roma young. This is a consequence of the interdependence of the
economic situation and the degree of educatio nal integration – Roma young people enter the
labour market earlier because of the lack of economic support which would allow them to
continue their studies. Moreover, Romanian c itizens belonging to the Roma minority are more

7The Condition of Roma in Romania. Between Social Inclusion and Migration. 2011 . Bucharest: Soros Foundation
România
8Employment and Unemployment in 2011, Main Results , April, 2012, Mois ă F., in Rostas I.A., Tarnovschi D.,
Stoian I., R ădulescu D. Andersen T. Ș. (2013), Civil Society Report on the Implementation of the
National Strategy for Roma Integration and of the Action Plan of the Decade in ROMANIA in 2012 , p.72

9involved in self-employed activitie s or part-time jobs which imply a higher social risk of poverty.
These occupations imply a certain cyclicality, for a fixed period, and require social protection
measures. In this context, it is important to me ntion that the economic disparities between
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma mino rity and the rest of the population are also
significant. In 2011, three out of four people belo nging to the Roma minority were suffering from
relative poverty, whereas only one out of four majority citizens we re in a similar situation. The
economic condition of the Romanian citizens bel onging to the Roma minority deteriorated in
2011 compared to 2005 (in 2005, two out of five Roma citizens were in a state of relative
poverty, whereas in 2011 three out of four were in the same situa tion). It is a fact that confirms
developments at the international level, as well as at the European level: the recent economic and
financial crisis has taken a heavier toll on the soci al situation of vulnerabl e groups, in this case on
the Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority. The absolute poverty rate is at least four
times higher for Romanian citizen s belonging to the Roma minority than for the rest of the
population (54 % for Roma people vs. 13 % for non-Roma people). The income discrepancies
among the Roma people are higher than those th at affect the rest of the population, which
indicates the existence of a s ubgroup of Romanian citizens belongi ng to the Roma minority that
is exposed to a great risk of poverty
9.
The precarious socio-economic conditions and the low educational level, associated to
access barriers to health services, also have a di rect impact on the health status of Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority. Therefore, although pub lic interventions adopted by
Romania in the last 10 years make for an impr ovement of the existing s ituation, there are still
significant differences between Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority and the rest
of the population with regard to indicators measuring the health status. With regard to child
mortality, although the downward trend maintained at 9.4 deaths per thousand live births in 2011,
however Romania maintains the highest rate am ong the 28 EU states, which is 2.4 times higher
than the European average (~4‰ in 2011)10; and according to a recent survey by UNICEF11, the
risk of child mortality is 4 times higher for Roma children aged 0-1 year. According to the same
report, about half (45.7 %) of the Roma children do not receiv e free vaccination granted by the
Ministry of Health through the National Immuni zation Programme, either because of refusal of
vaccination or because of lack of mothers’ inform ation/education or because of shortcomings in
the primary healthcare services . The probability for loss of life among children aged under 5
years is the highest in EU 28 (11.7 per 1,000 live bi rths, 2010). At the same time, the latest IMCP
report shows that over 80 % of deaths among child ren aged 0-5 years occur in the rural area
(including the Roma children). The risk of death at birth for mothers is five times higher in
Romania than in the EU. After a sustained decrea se for almost two decades, from 2007 onwards,
there is a disturbing upward trend of the matern al mortality rate with 5-6 % per year, caused by
the increase in the gestational mortality com ponent, and maternal mort ality among Roma women
is 15 times higher than the national average12. Only 52 % of the Roma ha ve health insurance, and
73 % of the Roma do not have access to vital medication.13. In a 2013 survey, 11 % of the Roma
respondents reported that they needed health care in the last year, but did not benefit from it,
compared to 5 % of the general population.14 In this context, it is also appropriate to mention the

9 UNDP/World Bank/European Commission in Alexandru Ioan Toth (main researcher), Adrian Dan and Cosmin Briciu, 2012,
Social Economy and Roma Communities – Challenges and Opportunities , UNDP, p. 14-15
10 Eurostat database
11RECI (Roma Early Childhood Inclusion) Overview Report -2012
12 Vincze E., Social Excl usion at the Crossroads of Gender, Ethnicity a nd Class: A View of Roma ni Women's Reproductive
Health, 2006
13 UNDP:Data on Roma: Romania, 2011 , http://europeandcis.undp.org/data /show/D69F01FE-F203-1EE9-B45121B12A557E1B
14 “Hidden Crisis in the Health Sector : Inequalities in the Health Sector and Disaggregated Data”, European Centre
for Roma Rights, October 2013

10results of a survey conducted in 2009 which show s that the Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority have the most posit ive subjective perception on thei r own health st atus compared
to the other six European countries (Bulgari a, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Slovakia,
Spain) where this survey was carried out15. It is also important to me ntion that the proportion of
the Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minor ity suffering from a disa bility or a chronic
disease is lower than that reco rded within the Roma minority in Europe, respectively 14.5 % in
Romania as compared to 15 % at the European level16.
Despite the efforts undertaken and progress ma de in the last 10 year s, there is also a
constant difference regarding dwelling quality. Thus, in 2011, 36 % of the Roma households had
access to the public drinking water supply network, whereas, according to NSI data, 61.2 % of all
households in Romania had acce ss to running water through the public supply network, and 24 %
of the Roma households in Romania had access to sa nitation (public systems or septic tanks) as
compared to 43.5 % of households at national level. Moreover , 16 % of the Roma households
had a toilet with running water, as compared to 42 % of the whole Ro manian population, and
68 % reported to have a toilet in the backyard or outside the home.”17
Cultural elements can also play a role in this process.18 For example, more often than not
people who declared themselves as Roma at th e 2011 census share the religion (or the religious
subdivision) of the majority people among whom they live19. Nevertheless, compared to
the 2001 census, there is a notab le increase in the number of Roma people adhering to
neo-Protestant religions (particularly the Pent ecostal religion – 71,262 persons). Furthermore,
there are some interventions and case studies th at show that church/religion can constitute a
catalyst for social inclusion. The data provided show the existence of inte rrelated differences in all essential social
components which define the quality of life between the Roma group and the rest of the
population. Educational development and the quality of education are reflected in the future
employment opportunities and depend on the occupationa l status of the family of origin or the
living conditions. Moreover, the health status largely depends on the economic situation and
living conditions, but also affects educational deve lopment. This clarification is important as it
demonstrates the need for an integrated interven tion designed to improve the social situation of
the Romanian citizens belongi ng to the Roma minority.
Moreover, it should be noted that the improveme nt of the situation of the Roma people is
taking place within a process firmly assume d by the Government of Romania from 2001
onwards, and its effects occur gr adually, on the long term. Realistic ally, the consid erable social
gaps accumulated over centuries cannot be annulle d on the short term. But it is important that
progress in reducing these disp arities between the Roma group and the rest of the population
should be constant due to the implementation of systematic actions. This is the objective pursued by the current Strategy.

15 EDIS S.A. European Survey on Health and the Roma Community 2009 and Eurostat data on EU-27 (2008) in
Fundación Secretariado Gitano Health Area, Health and the Roma Community, analysis of the situation in
Europe Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain. p. 31
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/discrimination/files/roma_health_en.pdf
16 Idem, p. 33
17 Moisă F., Rostas I.A., Tarnovschi D., Stoian I., R ădulescu D. Andersen T. Ș. (2013), Civil Society Report on the
Implementation of the National Strategy for Roma Integration and of the Action Plan of the Decade in
ROMANIA in 2012, p.104. Data on the Roma population are estimations based on a representative survey.
18 http://www.prorroma.org/ro/info_proiecte/sc oli_crestine_private; Kiss Dénes, 2009, “ Roma from Herculian and
Role of the Pentecostal Religion in their Community Life ” in Kiss Tamás; Fosztó, László; Fleck Gábor
(editors), 2009, “ Inclusion and Exclusion. Case Studies on Roma Communities in Romania ”,
Publishing House of the Institute for the Study of National Minorities Problems, Cluj-Napoca
19 Orthodox: almost 475 thousand; Roman-Catholics: over 20 thousand; Muslims: over 3,300, etc.

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3. PRIORITIES, POLICIES, EX ISTING LEGAL FRAMEWORK

The Government of Romania aims to cont inue the measures undertaken to achieve
Roma social inclusion, includi ng by fostering dialogue between competent establishments in
Romania and their European partne rs, as well as civil society.
Thus, in 2001, the Strategy of the Government of Romania for improving the condition
of the Roma for the period 2001-2010 was adopted through the Government Decision
No 430/2001, as subsequently amended and suppl emented, as a comprehensive document of
public policy in the field of Roma social inclusion in Romania.
Subsequently, the Government Decision No 1221/2011 for approving the Strategy of
the Government of Romania for the inclusion of Romanian Citizens belonging to
Roma Minority for the period 2012-2020 aimed at ensuring socio-economic inclusion of the
Roma through the implementation of public policie s in the fields of education, employment,
health, housing, culture and social infrastructure.
In 2010, EU launched the Europe 2020 Strategy fo r a smart, sustainabl e growth that is
favourable to social inclusion, through which it se t objectives in five major fields: employment,
environment and energy, research-and-develo pment and innovation, education, fight against
poverty. EU’s social objective for 2020 is ambitious and aims at reducing by about 20 million the number of European citizens at risk of poverty, ensuring the ec onomic, social and territorial
cohesion and offering support to the groups at risk of social exclusion.
In 2010, Romania assumed targets for all the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy ,
including the reduction of the number of people at risk of poverty and social exclusion by
580,000 persons.
As it was indicated by the European Commissio n, the main causes of social exclusion are:
poverty, lack of basic skills and of life-long learning opportunities or discrimination. These
are causes that also explain the social gap between Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority and the rest of the population; data show that the Roma population is affected to a
much greater extent than the rest of the populat ion, by the following: low employment rate, high
early school leaving rate, low educational devel opment and poverty. In this context, it is clear
that the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy , transposed in nationa l targets, cannot be
achieved in Romania without tacklin g the issue of the social inclusion gap between the Roma and
the rest of the population. The curre nt Strategy can be considered as an important step towards
achieving the national targets assumed under Europe 2020 Strategy and transposed in the
National Reform Programme.
In 2011, at the European Union level, the European Framework on National Roma
Integration Strategies (2011–2020) and, in 2013, the Council Recommendation on effective
Roma integration measures in the Member States were adopted.

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4. CURRENT CHALLENGES IN KEY DOMAINS

According to most recent data that the central public administration possesses, the
Roma group, among the vulnerable ones, has a greater risk of social exclusion20, with reported
differences in educational development, inclusio n on the labour market, h ealth status and housing
conditions. Just like the rest of the EU countries, the degree of the Roma minority social
inclusion is lower than the nationa l average in all chapters descri bing the quality of life, and the
explanation lies in a set of causes that pertain to both a vicious ci rcle of poverty perpetuated from
generation to generation and to the manifestation of some social mechanisms which can
sometimes cause social marginalisation. Specific domain data on the current situation and modes
of optimisation of specific governme ntal policies are presented below.
A. Education
Education is the strongest tool in the hands of adults and children from marginalised
groups which can raise them out of poverty, bot h socially and economically. In Romania,
kindergarten enrolment rate for Roma children aged 3-6 years is way below that of the majority
population, 37 % of Roma children vs. 77 % of non-Roma children21. Two out of
ten Roma children do not attend school , and the most cited reason is the lack of financial
resources22. One out of six Roma parents invokes ethnic discrimination as the reason for their
children’s weak school attendance23. Over 80 % of the Roma parent s state that they want their
children to have at least sec ondary education, but more than 75 % of the Roma children do not
finish 8 years of study24.

Integration in the education system of childr en with the appropriate age for primary and
lower-secondary level
2005/2006 2007/2008 2009/2010
The proportion of children with the appropriate age for
primary education (7-10 years) who do not attend
school any more 3.33 % 5.43 % 6.48 %
The proportion of children with the appropriate age for
lower-secondary education (11-14 years) who do not
attend school any more 3.84 % 5.68 % 5.45 %
Source : Details processed on the basis of NSI data, Education Science Institute. 2012. “ NATIONAL STUDY –
ROMANIA. Analysis of the situation of children not part of the education system in Romania ”. UNICEF

Data show that there is a significant numb er of children who do not attend school (one
out of twenty children with th e appropriate age for primary or lower-secondary education have

20Socio-economic analysis for programming European funds 2014-2020, GLT Social Affairs and Social Inclusion,
Advisory Committee for em ployment, social inclusion and soci al services, MMFPSPV, Bucharest,
June 2013, pp. 22-25
21 The World Bank, Toward an equal start: closing the early learning gap for Roma children in Eastern Europe ,
2012, p.12
22 Ana Maria Preoteasa, Monica Șerban, Daniela Tarnovschi. The Condition of Roma in Romania, 2011. Between
Social Inclusion and Migration. 2011 . Bucharest: Soros Foundation România
23 Surdu, Laura, 2011. Roma school participation, non-attendance and discrimination in Romania ”, Bucharest,
Vanemonde; cited in United Nations Economic and Social Council (2012) Draft country programme
document Romania, p.3-4
24 The World Bank, Toward an equal start: closing the early learning gap for Roma children in Eastern Europe ,
2012. p.9

13left the education system), but the situation also deteriorated with in the period 2006-2010
(probably as an adverse effect of the economic crisis). School non-attendance rate has risen
particularly at primary level, and from 2006 to 2010 it almost doubled (from 3.3 % to 6.5 %),
while at lower-secondary level it seems to settle at 5 %. Another study has found that the high perc entage of Roma children in a school is
associated with a poor quality of the material equipment in the establishment concerned
25. It has
also indicated that female Roma pupils face much higher risks of aband oning school or of early
school drop-out than male Roma pupils26. This reality is also re flected in respect of the illiteracy
rate which is significantly higher for female Ro ma than for male Roma (according to a
2011 survey, the percentage of female Roma who state that they do not know how to write and
read is with 10 % higher than that of male Roma)27.
According to 2011 census data, the distribut ion of persons having graduated higher
education is: 14.8 % for persons who declared th emselves as Romanian; 10.2 % for persons who
declared themselves as Hungarian, 0.7 % for persons who declared themselves as Roma
(3,397 Roma people with higher ed ucation were identified).
With respect to illiteracy , from the total number of illiterate persons in Romania
(245,38728), a percentage of 27.4 % (67,480) are Ro ma people. While for people aged over
10 years who declared themselves as Romanian, th e percentage of illiterate persons is of 1 %,
and 0.8 % for persons of Hungarian ethnicity, illiteracy for Roma people has risen to 14.1 %.

B. Employment

The low educational level, associated with discrimination, leads to very significant
discrepancies regarding employment and to extr emely low productivity rates. Roma people in
Romania have a weak participation on the formal labour market, but have a strong participation
on the informal labour market, and thus are not ab le to enjoy the social security benefits. A
survey conducted on a representative sample of the Roma people aged 16 years and above29
show that their employment rate was only 36 %, those searching for a job represented 36 % and
the unemployed represented 28 % (as compared to the national employment rate of 58 % and the
national unemployment rate of 7.4 %, according to 2011 NSI data).
Only one out of ten Roma has had an employme nt contract with inde finite duration in the
last two years, and 52 % of the Roma state that they have not found employment in this period.
Female Roma participation on the labour market is particularly weak, as only 27 % of them carry
out economic activities and 36 % of them state th ey are looking for a job. In addition, most of
female Roma have to provide care for many children early in their life.
Active Roma people are mostly self-employe d, and only 10-15 % of them are employees.
Most of the Roma employees either do not have any qualification or perform activities that do
not require any qualification. On the whole, within the Roma population of Romania aged 15 or
above, 38 % work as unskilled workers, 32 % have occupations requiring a qualification
(workers, sellers, traders), 9 % are agricultural workers, and 13 % have traditional
Roma occupations. Their economic activities are mostly temporar y, seasonal or occasional, which indicates a
high under-employment level for this population. Roma Inclusion Barometer (2010) reveals that

25 Duminică G., Ivasiuc A. 2010. School for Everybody. Together Agency and UNICEF
26 Ana Maria Preoteasa, Monica Șerban, Daniela Tarnovschi. The Condition of Roma in Romania, 2011. Between
Social Inclusion and Migration. 2011 . p. 36-39. Bucharest: Soros Fo undation Romania
27 Idem.
28 According to 2011 census
29 Ana Maria Preoteasa, Monica Șerban, Daniela Tarnovschi. The Condition of Roma in Romania, 2011. Between
Social Inclusion and Migration. 2011 . Bucharest: Soros Foundation Romania

14the risk of dismissal for Roma people is ten times higher than for the whole population, and 41 %
of the Roma people searching for a job are not employed because of their ethnicity. For this
reason, 55 % of the Roma employees do not have a contract of employment and 45 % of them only have occasional or temporary jobs (as co mpared to 5 % of the Romanians). In these
circumstances, 72 % of the Roma searching for a job are willing to perform an activity in any
conditions whatsoever, to be empl oyed without papers, which means th at they will not contribute
to the pension system and will not enjoy the social security benefits. According to data from the National Ag ency for Employment, unemployment in the
Roma population represents, in average, approxi mately 10 % of the registered unemployed:
49,242 persons of Roma ethnicity out of the 492,427 registered unemployed at the end of
March 2013. Just like the genera l population, the registered une mployed Roma are mostly men
aged between 30 and 49 years, wi th a low level of education: 32 % of them did not attend formal
school, 37 % have incomplete lo wer-secondary education, 22 % ha ve graduated lower-secondary
education and only 4 % have upper-secondary education. About 58 % of the registered
Roma citizens (March 2013) come from three regions: Centre, North-West and South. The
greatest part of them (88 %) does not receive unem ployment benefits, as they register only in
order to obtain the necessary documents for the guaranteed minimum income.
Their weak participation and limited access to insecure and marginal positions on the
labour market are translated in pr ecarious income and a high risk of poverty and social exclusion.
Thus, the total disposable income in Roma hous eholds is three times lower than that in the
general population. In fact, 60 % of the Roma households depend on a lower monthly income
than the minimum wage. In addition, job instability results in an income that varies considerably
over one year, which can negatively impact children (absenteeism and even school drop-out, malnutrition, development of chronic disease, etc.). All this leads to poverty and a high materi al deprivation rate, al l the more so since
Roma households consist of adults with ma ny children and few (or no) active persons. In
Romania, Bulgaria or Hungary, both the incide nce and the depth of poverty, are significantly
higher for Roma people than for other ethnic groups . The risk of absolute poverty that they face
is seven times higher, 31.1 % of the Roma, as compared to 4.4 % in the general population.

C. Health

The health status of the population is determined in a cross-cutting way. The
universal and equal access to health services, alt hough essential, has a limited contribution to the
improvement of a population’s health. The leve l of socio-economic development, the living
conditions, the level of education, environmenta l and behavioural factor s/life-style, equally
contribute to maintaining and im proving the population’s health.
Recent studies and analyses demonstrate a significant difference regarding morbidity and mortality indicators between the Roma and the ge neral population of Romania and explain this
gap by socio-economic dependencies. In other words, without reducing the level of poverty,
ensuring decent living conditions and increasing the education leve l, the substantial improvement
of indicators which measure the Roma’s health status is out of the question. The study on the
health status of Romanian ci tizens belonging to the Roma minor ity reveals that, despite the
significant health differences between the Roma and the majority, “there is no one medical
condition or factor which can explain such a di fference in health outcomes between Roma and
non-Roma in Romania. Rather, the discrepancy is due to the intera ction of multiple factors which

15lie at the root of health inequalities includi ng poverty, poor living conditions, lower levels of
employment and education, and social exclusion.”30
Moreover, Roma men and women’s health is determined by their life style and the social
norms governing their respective roles within the Roma population. In addition, communities
populated by the Roma are very diverse. Theref ore, there is a need for measures aimed at
improving Roma’s life conditions, and their impleme ntation must be adapted to their specific
situation. Thus, directions for ac tion designed to improve the health of the Roma also have to
include this dimension. The Roma minority’s life expectancy is on average 6 years lower than that of the non-
Roma population of Romania. The 2011 Re gional Study of UNDP / World Bank / EC
31 shows
that only 2.6 % of the Roma in Romania live l onger than 65 years as co mpared to 18 % of the
general population. According to the same study, indicators measur ing the health status show a poor health of
the Roma population as compared to the rest of the population. Roma wo men are more prone to
health problems early in their life. Factors en hancing their poor health status include the
precarious living conditions. According to the sa me study, the great burden of chronic diseases
within the Roma minority can be attributed to a high risk be haviour, like smoking, both for men
and for women, poor diet and a low level of physical activity. The analysis re veals that about half
of the Roma adults smoke regularly as comp ared to about 30 % of the general population.
Smoking prevalence for Roma women is 2.2 times higher than fo r non-Roma women. The
2011 Regional Study of UNDP indicates a reduced use of the health services by the Roma
people. Thus, 42 % of the Roma state that they do not seek healthcare when in need. Over 80 %
of the Roma who do not call on healthcare services justify this behaviour by the lack of financial
resources, of health insurance and of information regarding any costs incurred, and they are also
discouraged by the high prices of medicines. The study indicates an ove ruse of emergency and
ambulance services. An innovative intervention promoted by the Mi nistry of Health is the integration of
healthcare and social services at community le vel. The low access to healthcare, education and
social protection services, poor in sight and knowledge on the rights of the persons insured lead to
the social exclusion of whole families. In orde r to approach the multiple forms of exclusion,
evidence shows that high impact interventions are those provided by community inter-sectorial
services with an emphasis on prevention. The major problems result from the fragmented regulatory framework, from the lack of local staf f highly skilled in the planning, organisation and
monitoring of public services, incl uding healthcare services, as well as from the lack of adequate
budgets.
It is important to mention that the direc tions for action and the measures proposed for
improving the health status of the Roma are part of the National Health Strategy and covers the
period 2014-2020. Since the reform measures of the healthcare system, which also concern the
recently legislated decentralisation process, ar e continuously changing, the proposed action plan
designed to improve the he alth status of the Roma minority will be revised according to the
evolution of the morbidity and mortality indicators.

30 “Hidden Health Crisis: Health Inequalities and Di saggregated Data”, European Roma Rights Centre,
October 2013.
31 World Bank, Interim Report, September 2013.

16D. Housing and small infrastructure
According to the Socio-economic Analysis for th e Programming of European Funds
2014-202032, about one third of the Roma households in Romania have no contract (purchase or
rent) regarding their dwe llings and, therefore, they cannot ha ve their households insured. A great
deal of the Roma dwellings are built in timber and cob, and are not connected to utilities (water,
sewage and gas); 13 % of the Roma households do not have electricity vs. a national average of
2 %. Dwellings are overpopulated, poorly eq uipped with furniture and durable goods.
Because of the lack of human and material capital, the concentrated Roma communities
and the institutions serving them – school, disp ensary – operate on re duced resources, in a
perpetual crisis situation. The concentrated Roma communities have a greater risk of
marginalisation due to the more difficult access to certain services. Almost 30 % of the Roma households have inadequate living conditions as compared to 4 % of the non-Roma households; only 18 % of th e Roma households have sanitation, whereas
40 % of the non-Roma families in the area enjoy th ese facilities. A percentage of 35 % of the
Roma households do not have solid waste collect ion facilities as compared to 20 % of the
non-Roma households in the nei ghbourhood. A percentage of 42 % of the Roma households use
wood for food preparation (as compared to 14 % of the non-Roma households in the area) and
87 % of the Roma households use wood or coal for heating
33.

E. Culture
Cultural policies for minorities further, inter alia , the use and preservation of the minority
language/languages, the preservati on/development of the ethnic wr itten culture and mass-media,
the conservation of material heritage (museum and ethnographic collections), the preservation of
the intangible heritage (performing arts, tradi tional crafts, living huma n treasures, holidays,
festivals). Both the cultural policies for the w hole population and the specific elements for ethnic
minorities are based on several principles such as public participation in cultural activities, the
ideal of equal access to culture and understanding the fact that the cultural sector can have
beneficial economic and social e ffects, when programmes are su ccessful. In this respect, in 2003
the National Centre for Roma Culture was set up in Bucharest having as a central objective of its
activity to preserve and promote the traditional Roma culture.

F. Infrastructure and social services
Preventing and fighting against discrimination
Since 2000, Romania has improved its legi slative and institutional framework for
preventing and fighting against discrimination, including discrimination against Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority.
However, discrimination agains t the Roma is a phenomenon that continues to exist, just
like in other European countries, in respect of access to public services, labour market and
presentation in mass-media, and these attitu des are maintained by negative stereotypes and
prejudices rooted in th e public consciousness.
At European level, Romania has recorded th e lowest percentage of the Roma who state
that they have suffered discriminatory acts due to their ethnicity, and is the only EU country

32 Socio-economic analysis for programming European funds 2014-2020, GLT Social Affairs and Social Inclusion,
Advisory Committee for employment, so cial inclusion and social servi ces, MLFSPE, Bucharest, June 2013,
pp. 22-25
33 World Bank, Interim Report, September 2013.

17registering below 30 % for this indicator34. This is also a direct consequence of the constant
efforts made in Romania after 2000 for the improve ment of social inclusi on of Romanian citizens
with Roma ethnicity.

34 The situation of Roma in 11 EU Membe r States; Survey Results at a Glance published by The Fundamental Rights
Agency and The United Nations Development Programme (2012), p.26, Graph 17

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5. SCOPE, OBJECTIVES AND TARG ET GROUP OF THE STRATEGY

Scope of the Strategy
The scope of the Strategy is to ensure th e social and economic inclusion of Romanian
citizens belonging to Roma minority at a similar level to that of the rest of the population and to
ensure equal opportunities by launching and impl ementing public policies and programmes in the
fields of education, prof essional training and employme nt, health, housing and small
infrastructure, culture, social services, prev ention and fight against discrimination, and by
integrated projects and programmes aimed at general community problems. Moreover, the
Strategy aims at involving the local and central public authoritie s, the Roma minority and the
civil society in activities intende d to increase the level of social and economic inclusion of the
Roma minority.

Objectives of the Strategy
(1) Increasing the level of educat ional inclusion of the Romani an citizens belonging to the
Roma minority, including from traditional Roma communities, at a similar level to that of the general population, by combatting social disp arities that enhance the risk of school
drop-out and illiteracy, by affirmative action and ensuring an equal, free and universal access of Roma to quality education;
(2) Ensuring access of all Roma ch ildren to quality education;
(3) Stimulating employment growth of persons belonging to Roma minority and combatting
the gaps regarding labour market participati on between them and th e majority population,
by granting support to persons with poor chances of access to the formal labour market (the
young, persons poorly educated, women, the l ong-term unemployed, people from areas
where employment opportunities are limited, peopl e with no specific professional skills for
an occupation largely demanded in the living area, persons with disabilities, etc.) and
persons who have school-age dependants, and by proactive employment measures like
counselling, mediation and professional training;
(4) Improving the health status of the Roma peopl e by increasing their access to preventive and
curative health services;
(5) Improving living conditions in local Roma co mmunities disadvantaged from the economic
and social point of view, as well as the access to public services and small infrastructure;
(6) Preserving, developing and affirmi ng the cultural identity (la nguage, customs, heritage) of
the Roma minority, in correlation with respect for human rights and legislation in force;
(7) Improving the social condition of disadvantag ed Roma categories, including traditional
Roma communities, in the fields of community development, child protection, justice and
public order;
(8) Developing an integrated approach for prior ity domains and correlating measures provided
by the Strategy with direct measures targeted on the problems specific for each stage of life, with a view to suppor ting Romanian citizens bel onging to the Roma minority
throughout their life.

Target group
The target group of the current Strategy consists of persons belonging to the
Roma minority, especially those at risk of soci o-economic exclusion and social marginalisation.
Thus, a principle of prioritisati on of the beneficiaries of inte rvention measures provided by the
Strategy has to be established. The directions for action established by the Strategy will address explicitly, but not exclusively, Romanian citi zens belonging to the Roma minority, including
those from traditional communities.

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6. PRINCIPLES

In order to develop and implement the Strategy, the Government of Romania is
envisaging with priority the following ten basic common principles regarding
Roma inclusion, agreed at the European level35:

(1) Constructive, pragmatic and non-discriminatory policies;
(2) Addressing explicitly, but not exclusively, persons belonging to the Roma minority;
(3) Inter-cultural approach;
(4) Pursuit of an integrating approach of all key domains at society level;
(5) Gender awareness;
(6) Transfer of evidence-based policies;
(7) Use of instruments made availabl e to Member States by the EU;
(8) Involvement of regional and local public authorities;
(9) Civil society involvement;
(10) Active Roma participation.

The Strategy will also pursue the following complementary principles :
(11) The principle of sectoral di stribution and complementarity – The Strategy represents a
commitment of the Government of Romania de signed in an integrated way and applicable
on sectoral areas of responsibil ity that ensures the involveme nt of stakeholders in the
decision-making process and the St rategy implementation process;
(12) The principle of cooperation – The Strategy for Roma minority social inclusion is based
on the accomplishment of integrated projects th at address at the same time issues in the
fields of education, employment, health, culture, infrastructu re and housing, public
administration and community development;
(13) The principle of additionality of funds – The Strategy will ensure an effective and
sufficient allocation of resources by using f unds from the state budget, from local budgets,
EU financial instruments, as well as other financing sources;
(14) The principles of subsidiary and decentralized execution – The Strategy will be made
according to the distribution of competencies specific to institutions and local and central
public authorities and will ensure deci sion-making closer to citizens.;
(15) The principle of non-discriminati on and respect for human dignity in exercising the
rights provided by Article 1 paragraph (2) of the Government Ordinance 137/2000 on the
prevention and punishment of all forms of discrimination, republished, as subsequently
amended and supplemented;
(16) The principle of transparency – The Strategy implementation is made transparently, with
the participation of the civil society t ogether with the loca l and central public
administration institutions, in order to achieve its objectives, in accordance with the national public policie s and EU policies in the field of social inclusion.

35 http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/c ms_data/docs/pressdata/en/lsa/108377.pdf

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7. DIRECTIONS FOR ACTION

A. Education

In the field of education , one of the targets assumed by Romania within the
Europe 2020 Strategy is the lowering of early school drop-out rate to a maximum of 11.3 % (in
2013, early school drop-out rate was 17.3 %). Taking into account the high risk of early school
drop-out among children and young people from disa dvantaged areas and groups (for example,
from the rural area, from the Roma minority, etc.), the achievement of this objective is of major
importance. In the context of the Europe 2020 St rategy, in the field of education, Romania has
assumed that a minimum of 26.7 % of the persons aged between 30 and 34 years graduate one form of tertiary education (In 2013, 22.8 % of the persons in this age group graduated one
form of tertiary education). In this context, an increased percen tage of the Roma graduates of
some form of higher education w ould ensure the shaping of an el ite of young Roma intellectuals.
Specific objectives:

(1) Reducing the educational development gap (kno wledge level) and school attendance gap,
at all levels of education (pre-prima ry, primary, lower-secondary, upper-secondary,
tertiary) between Roma nian citizens belonging to the Roma minority, including traditional
Roma communities, and the rest of the population.
(2) Reducing the socio-economic gap between Roma and non-Roma students in aspects that
block educational inclusion (food, clothing, living conditions, health status), inter alia , by
granting support for the improvement of the fami ly’s economic condition or ensuring free
daily transport from home to school.
(3) Promoting inclusive education and reduction of discrimination and segregation in schools
on grounds of ethnicity, social st atus, disabilities or any other criteria which affect children
and young people belonging to disadvantaged gr oups, including the Roma people, through
the establishment of an effective detection, monitoring and prompt in tervention system for
eliminating incidences of school segregat ion and the supplementing of the current
legislation on combatting segregation (Ord inance No 1540 from 19 July 2007) with
sanctions and compulsory actions fo r cases of school segregation.
(4) Increasing school participation and sc hool performance of Roma students.
(5) Increasing the educational level of the Roma.
(6) Cultivating and developing the Roma ethno-cultural identity through education, in
accordance with national and EU legislation.
(7) Ensuring and extending the study of the Romany language and, if necessary, of
Roma history and traditions at all educational levels, wher e there is sufficient demand,
including for Roma students admitted on distin ct lists at high schools and universities.

Directions for action:

(1) Creating special national program mes designed to increase the access to early education of
children belonging to disadvantaged groups, including the children belonging to the
Roma community:
a. Facilitating and promoting early education participation of the Roma children
(parental counselling, food provi ded for disadvantaged childre n at kindergarten, etc.);
b. Setting up or developing nurseries, half-day or full-day kindergartens in communities
with Roma population, including summer pr eschools, bilingual kindergartens and

21multifunctional day-care centres, in order to ensure to these children real
opportunities of school success;
(2) Continuing and developing “After-school” programmes in communities where the
percentage of Roma students is significant, and stimulati ng financing by central and/or
local public authorities of the Roma children partic ipation in these programmes, including
other categories of children vulne rable to educational exclusion;
(3) Continuing the programmes “A second chance” or the programmes fo r functional literacy,
for correcting early school drop-out36, and for reducing the illit eracy rate, for children,
young people and mature persons, including thos e from communities with Roma majority
population;
(4) Initiating and developing programmes aimed at improving the socio- economic condition of
the Roma students in aspects that block educational inclusion (food, clothing, living
conditions, health status), inter alia , by granting support for improving the economic
condition of the family. These programmes are meant to stimulate school attendance, to
reduce absenteeism, as well as to support Roma children acc ess to quality education;
(5) Continuing positive measures in the field of education. Continuing to offer facilities and
special places for the Roma young people who wish to enter upper-secondary education,
vocational education or post-secondary educatio n, as well as higher education institutions,
including master’s and doctoral degrees;
(6) Facilitating access of Roma child ren to vocational education wh ich would enable them to
have modern occupations and to drop tradit ional, obsolete, unprof itable and sometimes
anachronistic occupations;
(7) Ensuring the teaching of the Romany language and Roma history at all le vels of education,
where there is sufficient demand for it;
(8) Developing counselling, guiding and tutoring activ ities, specific for children belonging to
disadvantaged groups;
(9) Organising initial and continued training courses for teachers in the field of inter-cultural
education, diversity, non-discrimination and equal opportunities. Con tinuing to implement
training programmes for teachers working in education establishments with children
belonging to the Roma minority, for thos e teaching Roma history and culture;
(10) Continuing to implement training programme s for school mediators and improving their
employment in the education system. Trai ning Roma school mediators (especially high
school graduates with a high school diploma; for traditional communities, persons coming
from the respective community and fluent in Romany;
(11) Designing and implementing programmes and act ivities for parental education and for
stimulating Roma parents’ participation in the education process w ithin and outside the
school. Monitoring the activity of the local assistance groups/committees for improving the access to education of disadvantaged groups, including the Roma group;
(12) Establishing an effective detection, monitoring and prom pt intervention system for
eliminating incidences of discri mination and school segregation;
(13) Supplementing the current legislation on comb atting segregation (Ordinance No 1540 from
19 July 2007) with sanctions and compulsory actions for cas es of school segregation;
(14) Furnishing school premises and equipping school s where there are mainly Roma students,
recognising that these schools have premises and equipment of lower quality than other
schools;

36 The term “early school drop-out” m eans the situation in whic h a person has abandoned sc hool before completing
compulsory education and who is no longer in alternative education or training (definition similar to that
used by EUROSTAT).

22(15) Ensuring school transport for Ro ma students who live in margin al or isolated areas of
localities;
(16) Campaigns for prevention and fight against discrimination in schools and mediation of
conflicts within th e education system, involving st udents and pare nts from the
Roma minority;
(17) Performing extra-school activitie s with Roma and non-Roma students and children in order
to stimulate and devel op inter-ethnic relations;
(18) Monitoring cases of school drop-out and offeri ng counselling to Roma students at risk of
school drop-out, as well as to their families;
(19) Other interventions deemed as necessary fo r the attainment of established objectives;
(20) Designing and implementing educational progr ammes for the young and adults belonging
to the Roma ethnicity and/or communities, wh ich aim to ensure civil rights knowledge and
the raising of self-respect, through partnerships with lo cal public authorities, the
National Agency for Roma, Minist ry of Culture and/or NGOs;
(21) Designing and implementing trai ning programmes for the staff of public institutions and
public services in the field of education, health, social assist ance and social protection, etc.,
on issues relating to the prevention and fight against discrimination, promotion of diversity
(historic/ ethnic/ lingu istic/ cultural/ religious/ gender/ physical, etc.), inter-culturality and
societal difference, through partnerships w ith the National Agency for Roma, MRDPA,
Ministry of Culture and/or NGOs;
(22) Adopting legislative and administrative measures in order to ensure school participation
and continuity for children travelling abroad, by deve loping a methodology for school
re-enrolling for children who, for different reasons, often accompany their parents when
they find work abroad.

B. Employment

Specific objective: Improving participation on the labour market for Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority.

Under Europe 2020 Strategy, Romania’s assumed target was to have an employment rate
of at least 70 % of the population aged between 20 and 64. The participation of
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority (a group with a low average age), with equal
rights, on the labour market b ecomes essential for supporting ri sing national costs relating to
pension and health schemes, and other costs relating to old age.37

Directions for action:
Measures implemented according to Law No 76/2002, as subsequently amended and
supplemented, and Law No 279/2005 on apprenticeshi p, republished, aimed at the labour market
integration of vulnerable categories, in cluding Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority, and covered by professional traini ng and employment programmes, lead to the
drawing up of the following directions for action :
(1) Providing information on the labour market and putting Roma unemployed into contact
with employers:
a. Free information and professional counselling services for persons looking for a job;

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23b. Free mediation services for vacancies or new jobs;
(2) Increasing employment opportunities for pers ons belonging to th e Roma minority by
encouraging geographic mobility and by maki ng the most of entrepreneurial skills:
a. Stimulating labour force mobility by granti ng employment or installation premiums,
where necessary;
b. Free counselling and assistance services for pe ople engaging in an activity in a self-
employed capacity or a business start-up, w ith a view to raising employment by the
setting up their own businesses;
(3) Stimulating employment among the compensated unemployed before the end of the period
of payment of unemployment allowance by supplementing salaries;
(4) Developing and certifying professional skills:
a. Organising professional trai ning courses for persons in search for a job;
b. Free services for the evaluation and certificat ion of skills acquired within the informal
and non-formal system;
c. Enrolling in apprenticeship programmes at the place of work.
(5) Stimulating employers who employ persons be longing to disadvantaged categories on the
labour market by awarding them grants;
(6) Providing financial support for the start-up/development of new businesses: non-refundable
financial support, and providing consultancy, mentoring and assistance services for
engaging in an activity in a se lf-employed capacity or a busin ess start-up, with the aim of
raising employment;
(7) Providing personalised accompaniment measures for the Roma young at risk of social
marginalisation by concluding solidarity c ontracts and providing specific services.

Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority will be able to benefit from
ESF measures for 2014-2020 which will foster: job creation by raising adaptability and mobility
for work purposes; creation of appropriate mechan isms for job search; provision of employment
services depending on their specific needs; sup port for employment actions in a self-employed
capacity.
The European Social Fund for 2014-2020 will provide financial incentives/grants for persons
from disadvantaged communities or vulnerable groups, including persons of Roma ethnicity,
with a view to encouraging their entry and re maining on the labour market, together with
ensuring transition from the social prot ection system to the labour market.
The European Social Fund for 2014-2020 will fi nance counselling and pr ofessional training
for entrepreneurs from the social sector, en tities from the social economy/employability
enterprise, and socio-economic integration measures for persons from marginalised communities, including those with a signifi cant number of Roma ethnicity members, as well as the
development of social service infrastruc ture at the level of local communities.
The youth of Roma ethnicity (16-24 years) can benefit from measures aimed at integrating
them on the labour market or at improving their skills, particularly for those unemployed or those
who do not pursue studies or training courses, including by implementing “the youth guarantee”.

C. Health

Specific objectives:

(1) Improving access of Romanian citizens bel onging to the Roma minority, including
traditional Roma communities, to integrated and quality, preventive and curative, basic
healthcare services.

24(2) Reducing risks and preventing diseases associ ated to mortality and morbidity patterns
prevalent within the Roma population.
(3) Increasing the institutional capacity of local public authorities within the process of
identifying health needs, developing and implementing health programmes/interventions
designed for Roma communities, an d their monitoring and evaluation.
(4) Preventing discrimination of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority who
access health services.
Directions for action:
(1) Improving the access of the Roma population to integrated and quality, preventive and
curative, basic healthcare services: a. Developing the network of basic healthcare se rvices and promoting integrated services
in the fields of social protection, educ ation and health at community level:
i. Continuing the setting up of pilot comm unity centres (multifunctional) at local
level.
ii. Improving the regulatory framework for th e operation of community assistance
in the health sector.
iii. Setting up a permanent working group in or der to analyse identified situations
and to draw up and promote dr aft legislation, both within the Ministry of Health
and the inter-ministerial circuit, with a view to improvi ng the legislative
framework on basic community services and their operation in an integrated
system.
iv. Ensuring methodological control by cent ral and local public authorities:
– standards and procedures regarding integrated community services;
– six-monthly monitoring and regular ev aluation of the operation of the
system of integrated services.
v. Extending at national level of the co mmunity centre network which provides
integrated basic services.
vi. Developing the institutional capacity of healthcare service providers at
community level:
– education and training;
– development of work instruments in integrated system, guides and practice
protocols.
vii. Hiring, with priority, a comm unity nurse of Roma origin in rural communities
with Romanian citizens be longing to that minority.
viii. Supporting, under the law in force, young Ro ma who graduated schools in the
medical sector, in order to employ them in the labour market, especially in the
communities where Roma population prevails.
b. Increasing the share of the Roma peopl e in the health insurance system:
i. Informing Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority on their right to
the minimal health service package de signed for persons not covered by the
health insurance system;
ii. Increasing the share of the Roma people receiving primary hea lthcare services;
iii. Monitoring access of the Roma people unin sured with the minimal healthcare
service package.
(2) Reducing risks and preventing diseases associ ated to mortality and morbidity patterns
prevalent within the Roma population: a. Reducing the incidence of communicable and non-communicable diseases among
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority:
i. Increasing vaccination coverage with regard to children from vulnerable
categories.

25ii. Implementing programmes adapted to the sp ecificity of the different Roma or
mixed communities with regard to primary prevention and early detection of non-communicable chronic diseases with a high prevalence within the Roma
population.
iii. Implementing programmes for the prev ention of communicable diseases.
iv. Developing partnerships between decentralised structures of the
Ministry of Health, local public authorit ies and civil society in the field of
health promotion and implementing progr ammes and projects in this domain.
b. Increasing prevalence of family planning, particularly among Roma young women and
implementing interventions for women and child health:
i. Informing and counselling Roma wo men and young women on reproductive
health, risks associated to early marriage, prevention and fight against domestic violence and trafficking in persons.
ii. Extending the territorial coverage of free contraception methods.
iii. Improving the capacity of the commun ity network staff in the field of
reproductive health and mother and child health.
(3) Increasing the institutional capacity of local public authorities within the process of
identifying health needs, developing and implementing health programmes/interventions
designed for Roma communities, and their monitoring and evaluation:
a. Developing training programmes for local authorities, in the field of evidence-based
health policies, public health and or ganisation of the healthcare system.
b. Identifying and mapping the medical and social needs of the population at risk both in
the urban and rural areas.
c. Drawing up and implementing lo cal, county and regional hea lth action plans adapted to
each community’s specificity.
d. Providing technical assistance for the drawi ng up and implementation of health action
plans.
e. Enhancing local public author ities’ capacity in recognising and responding to the health
problems of the Roma and other vulnerabl e groups, as well as their training in
accessing European funds that will enable them to implement the necessary action.
f. Developing standardised tools for analysis, data collection, planning and
communication between the local and central public authorities involved in community healthcare provision.
(4) Preventing discrimination of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority who
access healthcare services: a. Educating in the spirit of non-discriminati on of vulnerable groups within the medical
schools at secondary, universit y and post-graduate levels.
b. Setting up by the county council of a toll-f ree number for denouncing incidences of
discrimination of the Roma patient s who access healthcare services.

D. Housing and small infrastructure

Specific objective: Ensuring decent housing conditions in economically and socially
disadvantaged communities, including in the Roma communities, as well as ensuring the access
to public services and the pub lic utility infrastructure.
In order to achieve the hous ing objective, the following prio rities have been identified:
(1) Building social housing providing non-disc riminatory access for the Roma minority
members with small income;
(2) Rehabilitating buildings, owned by local public authorities, in disa dvantaged areas with
Roma population;

26(3) Developing public utility infrastructure in local communities with disadvantaged
Roma population;
(4) Developing programmes for integrated urban re generation and the erad ication of unhealthy
habitat, on the basis of a sp ecific law and methodology;
(5) Elaborating the strategic framework for the es tablishment and implementation of integrated
projects for local development, with ESIF financing, designed to reduce poverty for the
disadvantaged population in urban areas;
(6) Identifying informal settlements in or der to develop appropriate policies;
(7) Ensuring the appropriate legislative and methodological framework for improving living
conditions quality and deve loping disadvantaged areas;
(8) Cadastre and free registration of real estate giving special attenti on to vulnerable groups
and Romanian citizens bel onging to the Roma minority.

Directions for action in the fields of housing and small infrastructure:

(1) Supporting building and/or rehabi litating projects for social hous ing, so that persons from
disadvantaged groups, particul arly Romanian citizens belo nging to the Roma minority,
may have living quarters, also involving Roma ci tizens in the building/rehabilitation of the
respective housing units (an activity which will have a positive effect on both their
employment and their sens e of responsibility);
(2) Ensuring decent living conditions for members of vulnerable groups, especially Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority, by developing the pub lic utility infrastructure;
(3) Implementing programmes for building housi ng units in areas with disadvantaged
Roma population;
(4) Drawing up procedures for the development and implementation of integrated projects for
local development, with ESIF financi ng, aimed at reducing poverty within the
disadvantaged urban population;
(5) Defining mechanisms for the development and implementation of projects for urban
regeneration;
(6) Ensuring a framework of regulations and in tervention instruments (including pilot
projects), in order to impr ove living conditions for vulnera ble groups (including Roma);
(7) Identifying informal settlements in order to de velop appropriate policies, on the basis of the
National Housing Strategy;
(8) Simplifying the systematic prope rty registration procedure;
(9) Free systematic property registration in the in tegrated electronic cadas tre and land register
(giving special attention to vulnerable groups and Romanian citize ns belonging to the
Roma minority);
(10) Information and awareness-raising campaigns aimed at notifying ci tizens (and giving
special attention to vulnerable groups and Romanian citizen s belonging to the
Roma minority) about the conduct of systema tic property registra tion proceedings, the
resulting benefits and the method of involveme nt of property owners from the area in
question;
(11) Participation of vulnerable groups and Ro ma minority members in the process of
systematic property registration;
(12) Enhancing the administrative capacity of local public authorities with the aim of achieving
strategic planning and accessi ng non-repayable external funds for Roma inclusion.

E. Culture

Specific objective: Preserving, developing and asserting the cultural identity (language,
traditions, history, heritage) of the Roma minority.

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Directions for action:

(1) Initiating cultural projects for the preservati on, development and promotion of the cultural
heritage of the Roma minority, givi ng special attention to the youth:
a. Organising thematic exhibitions reflectin g aspects of the life and history of the
Roma minority on the Romanian territory, with the aim of setting up a Museum of
Romany Culture and Civilisation.
b. Supporting cultural projects concerning the preservation and promotion of the
Romany culture, of cultural events inspired by the Romany folklore and culture, inter-cultural research and cultural-scientific works on the Roma minority.
c. Setting up a musical-artistic group within NCRC and creating a specific repertoire,
attracting musicians who can set up a specific musical creation workshop.
d. Facilitating the performance of theatre a nd cinema with Roma themes or in the
Romany language, in the local cultural institutions.
e. Harnessing the musical cont ributions of Roma fiddlers and musicians, organising
annual festivals at the local level.

(2) Projects for the promotion of inter-culturality and the Roma culture in the public space.

F. Infrastructure and social services
Specific objective: The development by public institutions of measures which would respond to
the social needs of disadvantaged categories, including the members of Roma minority in the
fields of child protection, community de velopment, justice and public order.
Directions for action:
(1) Child protection:
a. Educating teenagers and pare nts in the spirit of fam ily values, of parental
responsibilities and of a new vision rega rding child rights within the family.
b. Raising public awareness about both le gal provisions regarding the primacy of
parents’ responsibility for children upbri nging, care and education and sanctions
arising from failure to fulfil parental obligations.
c. Promoting family values by informat ion and awareness raising campaigns.
d. Developing services for the pr evention of the child’s sepa ration from his/her family
and ensuring his/her raising and education within the community.
e. Conducting educational programmes for parents and children, with the aim to prevent
child abuse and neglect and family violence.
(2) Justice and public order:
a. Organising campaigns to promote and respect human rights and fundamental
freedoms.
b. Conducting information programmes on ho w to identify and properly solve
discrimination cases.
c.
Identifying, preventing and operatively so lving, through community mediation, of a
non-judicial nature, of conflicts likely to generate family, community and/or
interethnic violence.
d. Launching and carrying out programmes for lega l, civic and preventi ve education, in
collaboration with members of the Roma minority.
e. Continuing the allocation of sp ecial places for admission to th e training institutions of
the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

28(3) Administration and community development:
a. Making annual assessments of the activity of County Offices for Roma and of local
experts on Roma issues who wo rk for the local government.
b. Introducing teaching modules concerning the Roma history, culture and
socio-economic situation into the training programmes for specialists in public administration, social assi stance, health, education.
c. Continuing the process of identifying persons lacking civil status certificates and
identification documents in order to record in the civil status registers the documents
and information corresponding to them, and to obtain civil status certificates and
identification documents.
d. Creating and distributing mate rials on preventing and fighti ng against discrimination,
within local, county and/or national campaigns.
e. Ensuring Roma representativity within th e local public administration structures.
All directions for action specific to each s ector, all sectoral measure plans listed in
Annex 2 and all types of indicator s listed in Annex 3 form an inte gral part of this Strategy.

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8. RESULTS AND INDICATORS OF PROPOSED ACTIONS
The expected results relate to the current situation, described in the chapter
Current challenges in key domains . The types of indicators pr ovided for in Annex 3 for
monitoring the implementation of the measures set out in the Strategy are primary and tertiary
indicators set in compliance with legal provisions. It is expected to attain the mentioned targets in
two stages, firstly in the form of intermediate results for 2016 and, then, in the form of final
results until 2020. During the implementation of the Strategy, there will be revisions thereof
possibly establishing new intermediate targets .
A. Education
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
1.
Number of schools with a
percentage of Roma students of at least 15 %, with an implemented
data collection and monitoring
system regarding the enrolment of pre-school children (3-6 years) and school children (7-16 years) in a form of education. Data collection and
monitoring system implemented in 300 schools
where the percentage of
Roma students is at least 15 %. Data collection and monitoring
system implemented in all the schools where the percentage
of Roma students is at least
15 %.
2.
Number of Roma children of ante-
preschool and preschool age who
are not enrolled in kindergarten,
who receive support for enrolling in kindergarten and attending preschool education (identification, parental counselling, clothing, food,
shortening duration for reaching the
closest kindergarten, etc.). 5,800 Roma children of ante-
preschool and preschool age
who receive support for
enrolling in kindergarten and attending ante-preschool, preschool and school education
38. 30,000 Roma children of ante-
preschool and preschool age
who receive support for
enrolling in kindergarten and attending ante-preschool, preschool and school education.
3.
Early (preschool) education
attendance rate for children aged 3-5 years. Increase to at least 50 % in
2016 (as compared to 37 % in 2011)
39. Increase to 70 % in 2020 (as
compared to 37 % in 2011).
4.
Number of Roma children of
primary and lower-secondary school age not enrolled in the education system, who receive
support for enrolling and effectively
attending school (identification, parental counselling, clothing, food, shortening duration for reaching the closest kindergarten, etc.). 2,000 Roma children of
primary and lower-secondary school age who receive support for enrolling and
effectively attending school. All children from vulnerable
groups (including Roma) of primary and lower-secondary school age who receive support
for enrolling and effectively
attending school.
5.
Number of Roma children aged
between 7 and 14 years (primary + lower-secondary) not attending
school. Reduction by 10 % (as
compared to 2011) of the number of Roma children
aged between 7 and 14 years
not attending school. All children from vulnerable
groups (including Roma) aged between 7 and 14 years attend
school.
6.
Number of Roma students receiving
the support school programme 10,000 Roma students
receiving support 40,000 Roma students
receiving support programmes

38 2011 Population and housing census.
39 The World Bank, Toward an equal start: closing the early learning gap for Roma children in Eastern Europe ,
2012, p.12

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“School after school”. programmes “School after
school”. “School after school”.
7.
Number of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority
who have improved their education
level after attending a support school programme “A second chance”. 5,000 Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma
minority have improved their
education level after attending a support school programme “A second chance”. 20,000 Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma
minority have improved their
education level after attending a support school programme “A second chance”.
8.
Percentage of illiterate persons from
the total number of Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma
minority aged above 10. Reduction from 14.1 % in
201140 to 13.1 % in 2016.
This implies literacy for
5,000 persons from the Roma
minority in the next 2 years. Reduction from 14.1 % in
201141 to 10 % in 2020. This
implies literacy for 15,000
persons from the Roma
minority until 2020 (in addition to the number achieved in 2015-2016).
9.
Number of students from vulnerable
categories in the rural area (notably Roma), from localities where the
percentage of Roma students within
a school is at least 15 %, who receive school transportation free of charge. 10,000 children from
vulnerable categories in the rural area (notably Roma),
from localities where the
percentage of Roma students within a school is at least 15 %, who receive school transportation free of charge.Ensuring transportation free of
charge (on the basis of the student’s ID) to all children
from vulnerable groups
(including Roma children).
10.
Number of children from vulnerable
groups (notably Roma) at risk of school drop-out, whose families
received support for increased
employment opportunities (information, mediation, training). 10,000 parents of children
from vulnerable groups (notably Roma) at risk of
school drop-out, receiving
support for increased employment opportunities (information, mediation, training). 50,000 parents of children
from vulnerable groups (notably Roma) at risk of
school drop-out, receiving
support for increased employment opportunities (information, mediation, training).
11.
Number of children from vulnerable
groups (notably Roma) at risk of
school drop-out, who benefited
from programmes for the improvement of their socio-economic condition in aspects that block their educational inclusion
(food, clothing, housing conditions,
health status, etc.). 10,000 children from
vulnerable groups (notably
Roma) at risk of school drop-
out, who benefited from programmes for the improvement of their socio-economic condition in
aspects that block their
educational inclusion (food, clothing, housing conditions, health status, etc.). 30,000 children from
vulnerable groups (notably
Roma) at risk of school
drop-out, who benefited from those programmes.
12.
Number of school where the
percentage of Roma students is at least 15 % and where no other similar programmes for school
rehabilitation were implemented. 200 schools where the
percentage of Roma students is at least 15 %, that are rehabilitated. All the schools where the
percentage of Roma students is at least 15 % and where no other similar programmes for
school rehabilitation were
implemented, that are

40 2011 Population and housing census.
41 2011 Population and housing census.

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rehabilitated.
13.
Number of Roma students enrolled
on a special list at a university. 800 Roma young people
enrolled at a university on
special places intended for
Roma candidates (as compared to 600 in 2013). 1,000 Roma young people
enrolled at a university on
special places intended for
Roma candidates (as compared to 600 in 2013).
14.
Number of trained school
mediators, with an emphasis on the management of problems associated with inclusive education for Roma children. 252 trained mediators.
15.
Number of school mediators
recruited and employed in
education establishments that need school mediation. Recruitment and employment
of at least 600 school
mediators in education establishments that need school mediation Recruitment and employment
of school mediators in all of
the 1,680 education establishments where the percentage of Roma children is at least 15 %.
16.
Number of teachers who have
appropriate/high competences in the Romany language, the inclusive
school principles, knowledge and
application of Romany history and culture elements. 252 persons trained as
potential Romany-speaking educators for different
educational levels.
17.
Number of counties that have
developed plans for the prevention of school segregation on ethnic criteria. All the counties (42) will
have plans for the prevention of school segregation on ethnic criteria. In all the schools, segregation
is prevented and eliminated.
18. Improvement of anti-discrimination
legislation by providing compulsory
actions and measures where ethnic
segregation is detected. Amendment of Ordinance No
1540 from 19 July 2007 with
the provision of compulsory
actions and measures where ethnic segregation is detected.
19. Number of Roma students who
study in the Romany language or the Roma history and traditions (for
sixth to seventh grades, in common
core curriculum or as an optional discipline for other grades). Increasing by about 10 % the
number of Roma students who study the Romany
language and/or the Romany
history and traditions. Increasing by about 15 % the
number of Roma students who study the Romany language
and/or the Romany history,
culture and traditions.
20. Number of Roma students enrolled
in classes/sections offering teaching
in the Romany language. Increasing by 10 % the
number of Roma students
enrolled in classes/sections offering teaching in the Romany language. Increasing by 15 % the number
of Roma students enrolled in
classes/sections offering teaching in the Romany language.
21. Provision of specific diversity
elements, including Roma specific elements, in school curricula at all
educational levels (in the concept
note, learning activities, methodological recommendations, learning themes/contents) (In accordance to the Decision of Revised school curricula
contain diversity elements and school manuals promote
diversity, irrespective of
discipline, pursuant to those curricula. In the whole national
curriculum and in all school manuals, there are elements
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MESR No 1529/2007).
22. Number of teachers attending
continuation training courses on
diversity. About 500 teachers per year. About 500 teachers per year.

B. Employment
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
1. Number of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority who have accessed active labour market measures. 70,000 Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority who have accessed active labour market measures. At least 75,000 Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority who have accessed active labour market measures /4,500 of employed persons after
accessing active measures.
2. Number of Roma minority
members informed and advised. 5,000 Roma minority
members informed and advised. At least 7,500 Roma
minority members informed and advised
3. Number of mediated Roma
minority members. Number of persons employed after mediation. At least 5,000 mediated
persons, of whom at least 2,000 persons employed after mediation. At least 7,500 mediated
persons, of whom at least 4,000 persons employed after mediation.
4. Number of Roma minority
members to whom the following
measure was applied: stimulating
workforce mobility by awarding employment and installation premiums, where appropriate 60 persons to whom the
following measure was
applied: stimulating
workforce mobility by awarding employment and installation premiums, where appropriate At least 100 to whom the
following measure was
applied: stimulating
workforce mobility by awarding employment and installation premiums, where appropriate
5. Number of Roma minority
members trained for occupations/qualifications
demanded on the labour market 1,000 Roma minority
members trained for occupations/qualifications
demanded on the labour
market 1,500 Roma minority
members trained for occupations/qualifications
demanded on the labour
market
6. Number of Roma minority
members evaluated and certified for competences acquired on a non-formal basis 100 Roma minority members
evaluated per year and certified for competences acquired on a non-formal basis 100 Roma minority
members evaluated per year and certified for competences acquired on a non-formal basis
7. Number of persons to whom the
following measure was applied:
granting aid to employers for
employing persons from disadvantaged categories or with difficult access to the labour market 100 persons to whom the
following measure was
applied: granting aid to
employers for employing persons from disadvantaged categories or with difficult access to the labour market 150 persons to whom the
following measure was
applied: granting aid to
employers for employing persons from disadvantaged categories or with difficult access to the labour market
8. Number of persons to whom the
following measure was applied:
Providing personalised 50 persons to whom the
following measure was
applied: Providing 100 persons to whom the
following measure was
applied: Providing

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accompaniment measures for the
Roma young at risk of social
marginalisation by concluding solidarity contracts and providing specific services, including by granting aid to employers who employ persons from this
category personalised accompaniment
measures for the Roma
young at risk of social marginalisation by concluding solidarity contracts and providing specific services, including
by granting aid to employers
who employ persons from this category personalised
accompaniment measures
for the Roma young at risk of social marginalisation by concluding solidarity contracts and providing specific services, including
by granting aid to
employers who employ persons from this category
* The number of persons included in Measures 1 and 2 in the Chapter “Employment” may be higher than
the one cited as indicator. The proposed targets refer only to persons that lawfully declare themselves as
belonging to the Roma minority.
C. Health
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
1. Improving access of Romanian citizens belongin g to the Roma minority to integrated and
quality, preventive and curative, basic healthcare services:
(1)
a. % rural population covered by
community services, broken down
by county/region; pregnant
women/children under 5 years; Roma beneficiaries b. No of CNs and RSMs
42
employed c. No (%) of rural communities
covered by Roma community
nurses (from the total number of communities with CNs) Community centres that
provide integrated basic
socio-medical services,
extended at the national level Community centres that
provide integrated basic
socio-medical services,
extended at the national level

(2) Primary and secondary legislation
approved by the government An improved regulatory
framework regarding community healthcare services A coherent, applicable and
sustainable regulatory framework regarding community healthcare
services
(3) Compliance with standards (%
providers of community services
who report according to standards) – Permanent inter-ministerial
working group with civil
society participation – Defined standards and working procedures – Evaluation and monitoring
plan Defined standards and
working procedures

(4) Percentage of trained providers of
basic community services (from
the total number of employees) Providers of basic community
services trained and/or
educated43 according to the
defined guidelines and procedures Providers of basic
community services trained
and/or educated
44 according
to the defined guidelines and procedures

42 CN (community nurses), RSM (Roma sanitary mediators)
43 Training also includes principles/practice of non-discrimination and respect for human rights.
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(5) Evaluation reports for integrated
community assistance (2016,
2018, 2020) Standardised plan for the
evaluation and monitoring of
community assistance Standardised plan for the
evaluation and monitoring of
community assistance
2. Reducing risks and preventing diseases a ssociated to mortality and morbidity
patterns prevalent within the Roma population:
(1) The percentage (%) of Roma
persons with health insurance from
the total number of insured persons/county Increasing the number of
Roma minority members
insured in the health insurance system
45 Increasing the number of
Roma minority members
insured in the health insurance system
46
(2) The percentage (%) of Roma
persons with at least one visit at the family doctor per year
47
The percentage (%) of Roma
population without health
insurance and receiving healthcare services
48 Increasing the percentage of
the Roma population receiving primary healthcare services Increasing the percentage of
the Roma population receiving primary healthcare services
(3) The percentage (%) of informed
Roma persons (indicator broken down by county, types of communities/groups) Increasing the percentage of
the population informed about their right to the minimal health service package designed for persons not
covered by the health
insurance system Increasing the percentage of
the population informed about their right to the minimal health service package designed for persons
not covered by the health
insurance system
(4) Percentage of child vaccination
coverage (according to JAF49).
Percentage (%) of Roma mothers informed about immunisation campaigns Increasing vaccination
coverage for children from vulnerable categories, including Roma Increasing vaccination
coverage for children from vulnerable categories, including Roma
(5) Number of Roma patients with
HTA, DM, COPDs50, monitored in
primary healthcare, according to
practice guidelines Programmes for the primary
prevention and screening of
chronic diseases prevalent
within the Roma population, implemented in each region-county Programmes for the primary
prevention and screening of
chronic diseases prevalent
within the Roma population, implemented in each region-county
(6) Percentage (%) of the Roma
population beneficiary of programmes for communicable
disease prevention
Annual report on priority communicable diseases Programmes for
communicable disease prevention, particularly
tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS,
targeted towards Roma, implemented in each region-county Programmes for
communicable disease prevention, particularly
tuberculosis and
HIV/AIDS, targeted towards Roma, implemented in each region-county
(7) Percentage (%) of the Roma
population beneficiary of Programmes promoting a
healthy lifestyle (campaigns) Programmes promoting a
healthy lifestyle (campaigns)

45 Data collected through providers of community services.
46 Data collected through providers of community services.
47 Data collected through providers of community services and general practitioners.
48 Idem 3, 4
49Joint Assessment Framework is an evaluation system based on indi cators, elaborated at the level of the
European Commission in the context of Europe 2020 Strategy.
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programmes promoting a healthy
lifestyle targeted to Roma,
implemented in each region-
county targeted to Roma,
implemented in each region-
county
(8) Percentage (%) of the Roma
women receiving family planning
services per year Family planning services and
free contraception available Family planning services and
free contraception available

3. Increasing the institutional capacity of lo cal public authorities within the process of
identifying health needs, developing and im plementing health programmes/interventions
designed for Roma communities:
(1) Number of persons from CC/PLA
structures51 trained in evidence-
based health policies, public health and organisation of the healthcare system Increasing the number of
persons from CC/PLA
structures
52 trained in
evidence-based health policies, public health and organisation of the healthcare system Increasing the number of
persons from CC/PLA
structures
53 trained in
evidence-based health policies, public health and organisation of the healthcare system
(2) Number of vulnerable population
per provider of community
services Increasing the number of
vulnerable population per
provider of community services Increasing the number of
vulnerable population per
provider of community services
(3) Number (%) of local, county and
regional plans, drawn up according to MH standard Local, county and regional
health plans drawn up according to national standards Local, county and regional
health plans drawn up according to national standards
(4) National research reports on Roma
health (2016, 2018, 2020) Standardised instruments of
analysis/ data collection/
planning/communication
between local and central public authorities concerning the Roma health status, implemented Standardised instruments of
analysis/ data collection/
planning/communication
between local and central public authorities concerning the Roma health status, implemented
(5) Percentage of achievement of the
measures contained in the county/local/regional healthcare
service plans Achievement/implementation
of the measures contained in the county/local/regional
healthcare service plans Achievement/implementation
of the measures contained in the county/local/regional
healthcare service plans
4. Preventing discrimination of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority who access
health services:
(1) a. Number (%) of medical
education establishments that have in their curriculum such a course b. Annual number of learners Education for the non-
discrimination of vulnerable groups is included in the upper-secondary, university, post-graduate medical education Education for the non-
discrimination of vulnerable groups is included in the upper-secondary, university, post-graduate medical education
(2) a. Number (%) of
informed/advised beneficiaries
Community service providers
are trained in the
prevention/fight against discrimination of Roma patients Community service
providers are trained in the
prevention/fight against discrimination of Roma patients

51 Training also includes principles/practice of non-discrimination and respect for human rights.
52 Training also includes principles/practice of non-discrimination and respect for human rights.
53 Training also includes principles/practice of non-discrimination and respect for human rights.

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(3) Number of cases of discrimination
regarding the provision of
healthcare services, that are
investigated annually Hospital ethics councils that
have functional mechanisms
for monitoring and
investigating cases of discrimination of the Roma patients Hospital ethics councils that
have functional mechanisms
for monitoring and
investigating cases of discrimination of the Roma patients
(4) Number of cases reported
Annual evaluation and monitoring Each county council has a
toll-free number for denouncing incidences of discrimination of the Roma
patients who access
healthcare services Each county council has a
toll-free number for denouncing incidences of discrimination of the
Roma patients who access
healthcare services
(5) Number of cases analysed by the
Physicians’ College, reported annually in each county by observers from Ethics Commissions of the County
Physicians’ Colleges
Procedure for the application
of Ordinance No 137/ 2003, applied by RPC. Including observers from NAR structures in all County
Ethics Commissions of
Physicians’ Colleges that investigate cases of Roma discrimination. Procedure for the
application of Ordinance No 137/ 2003, applied by RPC. Including observers from
NAR structures in all
County Ethics Commissions of Physicians’ Colleges that investigate cases of
Roma discrimination.
D. Housing and small infrastructure
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
Defined institutional and
partnership framework,
working group established
1. Implementation of a project for
integrated urban regeneration and
the eradication of unhealthy habitat in Ferentari district Strategy for integrated local
development, first individual projects implemented Implemented individual
projects relating to the Strategy, improved housing
conditions, rehabilitated
areas, improved access to social services
2. Elaboration of analysis and
intervention methodology regarding the unhealthy habitat Guidance approved by Order
of the Minister and applied by local public authorities Identified areas with
unhealthy habitat, number of completed interventions of the local authorities
3. The elaboration of the study
“Analysis of informal settlements in Romania – evaluation of the current
situation for laying down
regulations and intervention instruments” – a study contributing to the establishment of the National Housing Strategy Regulations drawn up in
compliance with the National Housing Strategy
4. Updating legislation on housing on
the basis of the consultation of target groups Legal acts amended or
prepared, according to identified needs

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5. Preparation of the draft law on
integrated urban regeneration Approved law Implemented urban
regeneration projects pursuant to the law on
integrated urban regeneration
6. Preparation of the National
Housing Strategy, within the fourth component of the project
“Coordination and efficient and
transparent selection of infrastructure projects financed by structural instruments and the state budget for the period 2014-2020” The National Housing Strategy
prepared and approved Evaluations, reports relating
to the monitoring of the Strategy implementation
7. Number of newly-built housing
units for Roma citizens at risk of poverty and exclusion Increasing the number of
housing units for Roma citizens at risk of poverty and exclusion.
8. Number of rehabilitated housing
units for Roma citizens at risk of
poverty and exclusion Increasing the number of
rehabilitated housing units.
9. Number of Roma households that
have access to utilities. Increasing the number of
households that have access to
public utilities.
10 Integrated projects financing
measures for the social inclusion of disadvantaged communities (including Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority –
number) Integrated strategies for local
development Persons living in urban areas
where local development strategies were implemented
11. Number of amended legal
provisions Simplifying the free
systematic property
registration procedure, certificates for the registration of holders as owners in the land register, settlement of
successions in the case of dead
owners.
12. Number of properties/hectares
registered for free, mostly and particularly for vulnerable groups and Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority Increasing the number of
properties registered for free, after carrying out systematic property registration projects in 240 administrative and
territorial units Increasing the number of
properties registered for free, after carrying out systematic property registration projects in 970 administrative and
territorial units
13. Number of persons, mostly and
particularly from vulnerable groups
and Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority, who have participated at information meetings organised through local public information campaigns and who
have gone through the systematic
registration process Increasing the number of
persons who have understood
the benefits resulting from free property registration and the involvement of property holders from the area in question. Increasing the number of
persons who have understood
the benefits resulting from free property registration and the involvement of property holders from the area in question.
14. Number of persons from vulnerable
groups and Romanian citizens Increasing the number of
persons from vulnerable Increasing the number of
persons from vulnerable

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belonging to the Roma minority
who have participated in the systematic registration process both
at the information stage and at the
publication of data obtained groups and Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority who have been
assisted in the participation at
all the stages of the systematic property registration process groups and Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority who have
been assisted in the
participation at all the stages of the systematic property registration process
15. Number of administrative and
territorial units that have benefited from local action plans regarding
the inclusion of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority Increasing the quality of the
local action plans regarding the inclusion of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma
minority

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E. Culture

Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
1. Number of funding sessions carried
out for ethnographic research,
publications, multimedia and video projects intended to document and preserve Roma identity, including the Romany language, music and
dance. Organising a funding session
per year Organising a funding session
per year
2. Number of organized fairs of
traditional Roma crafts. Organising a fair per semester Organising a fair per
semester
3. Number of training/advanced
training courses organized for Roma craftsmen, and the number
of participants. Organizing a course per
semester Number of participants per
series – 20 Organizing a course per
semester Number of participants per
series – 20
4. Number of organized contests of
traditional Roma crafts. Organising a contest per
semester Organising a contest per
semester
5. Number of projects carried out
within the National programme
concerning the research of national
and local archives for the creation of the patrimony of a National Centre for Roma Documentation. Carrying out 2 projects per
year within the programme Carrying out 2 projects per
year within the programme
Creation of the National
Centre for Roma Documentation
6. Number of projects carried out
within the National programme for the research of Roma communities (lineage, occupations, customs and
traditions, dialects, etc.). Carrying out 2 projects per
year Carrying out 2 projects per
year
7. Number of published volumes
about Roma history and culture, and the number of copies printed. Publication of the first book
until 2016, with a number of about 3,000 printed copies Increasing the awareness of the Roma culture and Roma identity symbols Publication of the second
book until 2020, with a number of about 3,000 printed copies Increasing the awareness of the Roma culture and Roma
identity symbols
8. Number of displayed memorial
plaques commemorating Roma
personalities and moments from the Romany history Annual display of a memorial
plaque
Enhancing the main moments in the Romany history, in the national and international circuit Annual display of a
memorial plaque
Enhancing the main moments in the Romany history, in the national and international circuit
9. Number of displayed public
monuments relating to the Romany
history and culture Displaying a public monument
until 2016
Enhancing the interest of the
children, students, youth and adults in the study of history Displaying three public
monuments until 2020
Enhancing the interest of the
children, students, youth and adults in the study of history
10. Number of Roma cultural
programmes carried out at the local level, in Roma communities Carrying out four programmes
per year Carrying out four
programmes per year

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11. Number of Roma persons who
were awarded the title of Living Human Treasure Awarding of the title Living
Human Treasure to two Roma persons until 2016 Awarding of the title Living
Human Treasure to four Roma persons until 2020
12. Number of elements from the
Roma intangible cultural heritage included in the national repository 3 elements per year 3 elements per year
13. Number of publications in the
Romany language for cultivating the Romany language in Roma
communities and in society in
general, as well as the number of printed copies Printing two publications per
year in 1,000 copies Printing two publications per
year in 1,000 copies
14. Number of beneficiaries of
excellence scholarships 4 beneficiaries per year 4 beneficiaries per year
15. Number of creation camps
organised, and the number of beneficiaries Organising 2 creation camps
per year 15-25 beneficiaries per year Organising 2 creation camps
per year 15-25 beneficiaries per year
16. Number of artists awarded a prize
annually Awarding a prize to at least 6
artists per year Awarding a prize to at least
6 artists per year
17. Number of organised exhibitions
with works of Roma artists Organising an exhibition per
year Organising an exhibition per
year
18. Number of published books written
by Roma authors Publishing two books per yearPublishing two books per
year
19. Number of theatre, music, dance
and cinema performances by Roma artists or having a Romany theme Organising two performances
per year for each domain Organising two
performances per year for each domain
20. Number of organisations of Roma
artists which have received aid for self-organisation and infrastructure2 organisations per year 2 organisations per year
21. Number of exhibitions of Roma
artists, organised abroad Organising 2 exhibitions per
year Organising 2 exhibitions per
year
22. Number of theatre, music, dance
and cinema performances by Roma artists or having a Romany theme, organised abroad Organising 2 performances
per year Organising 2 performances
per year
23. Number of professional training
courses/summer schools in the
Romany language/on Romany
themes for civil servants who work with and for persons from the Roma minority, in public administration, social assistance,
health, police, education Organising 2 training
activities per year
At least 20 participants per
year Organising 2 training
activities per year
At least 20 participants per
year

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F. Infrastructure and social services
(1) Child protection
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
1. Number of campaigns promoting
family values At least one campaign
carried out Information and awareness-
raising campaigns carried
out at community level
2. Number of day centres set up 107 day centres set up Increasing by 50 % the
number of services for the prevention of child’s separation from his/her family
3. Number of children benefiting
from services of day centres newly
set up At least 30 % of the children
benefiting from services of
day centres newly set up
should come from Roma families Increasing by at least 20 %
the number of Roma
children benefiting from the
services of day centres
4. Number of NGOs involved in the
campaign for the prevention of child abuse and neglect and any form of child violence At least two partnerships
signed for implementing projects within which Roma are established as a special
target group.
Ensuring the necessary
counselling services for all the families at risk of abuse, neglect, violence,
within projects carried out
in a partnership between local authorities and NGOs.

(2) Justice and public order
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
MIA
1. Number of special places for
Roma citizens for admission in
the training institutions of the
Ministry of Internal Affairs At least 2 % from the total
number places assigned for
Roma candidates
At least 2 % from the total
number places assigned for
Roma candidates
NCFD
1. Number of campaigns carried out
(for measure 1)
1. 2 campaigns carried out;
(1 campaign carried out
annually 2015-2016)
2. Number of submitted
petitions*;
3. Number of settled
petitions*;
4. Number of acts of
discrimination found* 1. 6 campanii derulate;
(1 campanie derulat ă anual
2015-2020)
2. Număr de petiții depuse*;
3. Număr de petiții
soluționate*;
4. Number of acts of
discrimination found*

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(3) Administration and community development 2. Number of programmes carried
out, number of beneficiaries
(for measure 2)
1. 8 programmes carried out;
(4 programmes carried out
annualy for the period 2015-
2016) 2. 336 beneficiaries
(168 beneficiaries per year for the period 2015-2016) 3. Number of petitions
submitted*;
4. Number of petitions settled*; 5. Number of acts of discrimination found*. 1. 24 programmes carried
out ;
(4 programmes carried out
annualy for the period 2015-2020) 2. 1,008 beneficiaries;
(168 beneficiaries per year for the period 2015-2016)
3. Number of petitions
submitted*; 4. Number of petitions settled*; 5. Number of acts of
discrimination found*.
3. Number of programmes carried
out, number of beneficiaries
( for measure 3)
1. 8 programmes carried out;
(4 programmes carried out
annualy for the period 2015-2016) 2. 336 beneficiaries
(168 beneficiaries per year
for the period 2015-2016)
3. Number of petitions submitted*; 4. Number of petitions settled*; 5. Number of acts of
discrimination found*. 1. 24 programmes carried
out ;
(4 programmes carried out annualy for the period 2015-2020) 2. 1,008 beneficiaries;
(168 beneficiaries per year
for the period 2015-2016) 3. Number of petitions submitted*; 4. Number of petitions settled*;
5. Number of acts of
discrimination found*.
Indicators Results 2016 Results 2020
MARD
1. Number of non-governmental
organisations and Roma partners from Local Action Groups (LAG) 10 30
2. Number of projects relating to
Roma aspects through the
programme LEADER. 5 15
3. Number of LEADER animation
and promotion actions addressing local communities, potential Local Initiative Group territories largely populated by Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma
minority 10 30
MIA
1.
Number of campaigns of
information and guidance and methodological control actions at
the public community services of
personal records 10 campaigns of information
and guidance and methodological control
actions at the public
community services of personal records 10 campaigns of
information and guidance and methodological control
actions at the public
community services of personal records

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NAR
1. Number of campaigns organised
annually, relating to the
implications of the exercise of the
right to free movement in the European Union 16 campaigns
48 campaigns
2. Number of persons informed
about the implications of the exercise of the right to free movement in the European Union 1,000 persons informed
5,000 persons informed

3. Number of meetings organized for
launching a social dialogue process and specific interventions
40 meetings of COR and
regional structures, with NGOs’ participation
2016: initiating a
consultative mechanism at regional level, made up of decentralised public services (at county level) and active
NGOs (at local level)
4. Number of regional intervention
plans drawn up Drawing up 8 regional
intervention plans
5. Number of information
campaigns for obtaining
ownership/possession certificates 16 campaigns 48 campaigns

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9. BUDGETARY IMPLICATIONS
The short term Action Plans for implementing the Strategy are based on the sectoral plans
and indicate the funding sources requ ired for achieving each objective.
The costs estimated in thousand RON for the implementation of this draft regulatory act
for the period 2015-2016 are as follows:

Domain Costs (thousand RON)
2015 2016
Education* 138,592 138,592
Employment 2,245 2,245
Health 36,000 45,000
Housing and small infrastructure 31,500 29,420
Culture 500 500
Child protection 2,920 **
Equal opportunities and preventi on and fight against family
violence*** 1,100 1,128
Justice and public order**** 344 344
Administration and community development (NAR) 36 36

* Costs for education are divided according to a school year which begins on 15 September and
ends on 15 June. Since funds for 2015 refer to the sc hool year 2014/2015, they shall be used in 2015 as
well, and funds for 2016 refer to the school year 2015/2016. ** In 2015, projects which will be funded in 2016 shall be decided.
*** The overall Romanian Government contribution, through MLFSPE, to the implementation of the
project mentioned in the general objective, “Fa mily responsibilities for child raising, caring and
education” is 1,800,000 Euro, for the financing contra cts concluded so far. It shall be mentioned that
project implementation shall be carried out by the MLFSPE’s Project Management Unit, and NAPCRA
will perform the subsequent monitoring of their functionality. The sum of 1,800,000 EURO will be
exchanged at an exchange rate of 4.4 RON = 1 Euro **** The annual sum allocated by NCFD within F2- Justice and public order

The actions shall be incurred from th e budgets estimated for the period 2015-2016
corresponding to the chief aut horizing officers in charge of Strategy implementation.
In 2016, the Strategy Monitoring and Assessm ent Inter-ministerial Committee for will
prepare, on the basis of proposals from co mpetent institutions, a new proposal concerning
funding sources for the period 2017-2020, which will be adopted by the government. The abovementioned sums represent a part of the budget allocations for
Strategy implementation, which shall be supplemen ted by other sources, particularly European
funds.

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10. LEGAL IMPLICATIONS

On a legislative level, it is necessary to assess the regulatory ac ts incidental to the
inclusion of Romanian citizens of Roma ethnicity, as legislative st eps mainly seek to clarify the
powers and attributions of the st ructures responsible in the fiel d, to correlate the subsequent
domains, as well as to ensure the compatibili ty of regulatory acts with EU regulations.
In the context of administrative decentral ization, it is necessa ry to supplement the
Law on local public administration No 215/2001 (amended by Law No 286/2006), as well as the
Law on national education No 1/2011 , in order to stimulate implementation of the
Strategy provisions, and of the regulatory acts incidental to the Strategy, or amendment of
regulatory acts providing otherwise.
Moreover, it is necessary to supplement Law No 95/2006 on health reform,
Government Emergency Ordinance No 162/2008 on th e transfer of all at tributions and powers
exercised by the Ministry of Health to loca l public authorities and detailed rules for its
implementation.
Supplementation of the abovementioned regulat ory acts is necessary for clarifying the
conduct and monitoring of the community healthcar e and health mediation activity with a view
to attaining the objectives of the Strategy for inclusion.

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11. CRITICAL STAGES AND RE SPONSIBLE INSTITUTIONS
(1) Responsible bodies:
The implementation of the Strategy shall be ensured by the following institutions,
depending on the relevant area of competence for each action plan:

a. At central level
– Ministry of European Funds;
– Ministry of Education a nd Scientific Research;
– Ministry of Labour, Social Protection, Family and the El derly through th e institutions
under its control or authority, in part icular the National Authority for the
Protection of Children’s Rights and Adopti on and the National Employment Agency;
– Ministry of Health;
– Ministry of Regional Developmen t and Public Administration;
– Ministry of Culture;
– Ministry of Public Finance;
– Ministry of Internal Affairs;
– General Secretariat of the Government;
– National Agency for Roma;
– Department for Inter-ethnic Relations;
– National Council for Combating Discrimination.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Mini stry of Justice, depe nding on their specific
tasks, will be informed of and consulted with regard to the Strategy implementation, monitoring
and assessment process, and to the process of reporting the Strategy im plementation progress to
the Government and to the foreign partners.

b. At local level:
– County Offices for Roma within prefectures;
– Local public administration authorities;
– Decentralised public services.

(2) Organisational stages

a. At central level :
The line ministries and the other responsible in stitutions and public authorities shall set up
or reactivate, as appropriate, w ithin 30 days from the adoption of the Strategy, by orders of the
line ministers, the Ministerial Commi ssions for Roma/Commissions for Roma.
The Commission for Roma shall include ma nagers and experts having measure plan
implementation tasks, shall be chaired by a Secretary of State and shall meet every quarter or as needed.
The Commission for Roma shall also include th e contact point that is responsible within
that institution for the m onitoring and implementation activity (see 12.1). This contact point shall
coordinate an internal admini strative body made up of minimum 3 experts with direct tasks in
supporting the implementation of the measure plans, the collection of data and the drafting of the
monitoring and assessment report at the level of the institution. The Commission for Roma shall analyse a nd propose measures and actions that are
necessary for the implementation of the current St rategy in the field of re sponsibility. Moreover,
the Commission for Roma shall analyse and endo rse the monitoring report on the implementation

47of the Strategy in the field of activity concerned, which is submitted by the responsible contact
point to the Secretariat of the Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee.
Furthermore, the Commission for Roma shall take measures with a view to implementing
the decisions adopted by the Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee.
The Commission for Roma may al so organise meetings with the representatives of civil
society.
b. At local level:

i. The Joint Working Group (JWG) is set up at county level and made up of
representatives from decentralised bodies of the ministries, of members of
non-governmental organisations and delegates from the local communities containing a
significant number of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority, including
county/local counsellors. The JWG shall be established by orde r of the Prefect.
The JWG shall analyse and adopt the county m easure plan for social inclusion of the
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority drawn up by the COR, based on the
Strategy. Each institution repres ented in the JWG shall be responsible for implementing
the measures corresponding to its area of ac tivity, included in the county measure plan.
The JWG shall adopt the annual progress report concerning the implementation of the
county measure plan.

ii. The County Offices for Roma (COR) are functional bodies orga nised at county level
within prefectures. Their composition incl udes maximum 3 experts/executive officials
and/or managers, among which one has to be a Roma (in case there is no such position in
the organisational chart, it shall be special ly created, after publication of the current
legislative act in the Offi cial Gazette of Romania).
COR members carry out activities as a team, according to a pl an, they pay regular visits
for assessing and monitoring the situation of the communities of Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority, they obtain data and information from the local level,
which they centralise at county level.
The CORs operate under the s ubordination of the Prefect a nd in technical coordination
with the NAR. The nominal composition of the CORs is established by Prefect’s order.

CORs’ main activities include, but are not limited to:
– Drafting the county measure plan for the incl usion of Romanian citizens belonging to
the Roma minority, by way of harmonising the main needs, identified through the
community facilitation process or by the loca l public authorities, with the measures
provided for in the Strategy.
– Monitoring the implementation of measures in the area of activity of the devolved
local authorities and units of the line mini stries in order to me et the objectives and
tasks of the Strategy.
– Supporting the implementation of the measur es set in the county plans by providing
consultancy to the representatives of th e devolved services and facilitating their
access within the communities of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority.
– Drawing up annual progress reports regard ing the implementation of the county
measure plan for the inclusion of the Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority and, after their adoption at JWG level, submitting them to both the
Prefect and the NAR.

48iii. The local experts for Roma are employees and activate at town hall level. They are
subordinated, on a technical level, to the CO Rs and, on an administrative level, to the
Mayor. The local experts are members of the Roma minority represent the main interface
between the local public authorities and the communities of Romanian citizens belonging
to the Roma minority. The local experts for Roma have a critical role in the community
facilitation process and organise, at local le vel, the Local Initiative Group (LIG) and the
Local Working Group (LWG).

iv. The local initiative group (LIG) is made up of representati ves of the Romanian citizens
belonging to the Roma minority. The local expert for Roma shall propose th e composition of the LIG, which shall be
approved by the Local Working Group. LIG’s role is to determine, based on the Community facilitation process organised by the lo cal expert for Roma, the main needs
and priorities at the level of the community, according to the directi ons for action in the
Strategy, and to make proposals to be discussed within the LWG.

v. The local working group (LWG) is made up of the local expert for Roma,
representatives of local pub lic institutions, members of the Local Council (including
elected Roma counsellors), members of non-gove rnmental organisations and a delegate of
the local community of Romanian citizens belo nging to the Roma mi nority from the LIG.
The LWG shall be establishe d by Local Council Decision.
The tasks of the local working group (LWG) are the following: – Drafting the local action plan for the inclus ion of the Romanian citizens belonging to
the Roma minority by way of harmonization of the main needs identified through the
community facilitation process within the LIG or determined by the local public authorities, with the measures provided for in the Strategy. The action plan shall be
endorsed by the Local Council by decision.
– Each member of the LWG shall be responsible for implementing the measures
corresponding to his/her area of activity, as included in the local action plan.
• Introducing the local action plan for Roma inclusion in the locality development
strategy.
• Submitting the local action plan to the COR with a view to its inclusion in the
county measure plan.
• Monitoring the implementation of the meas ures set in the local action plan and
making proposals for their improvement.
• Drawing up semi-annual progress reports on the implementation of the local
action plan and submitting them to the mayor, the COR and the NAR.

(3) Involvement of the civil society

In order to ensure successful implementation of the Strate gy, the active involvement of
civil society is essential. The main consu ltation framework for the civil society is the
Consultative Council set up within the NAR, by order of th e president of this institution. At least
one third of the members of the Consultative Counc il are representatives of the civil society, and
are selected based on transpar ent and representative criteria published on the website of the
institution.
The Consultative Council shall meet quarter ly and shall analyse the implementation
progress and method for the measur es provided for in the Strategy and shall make proposals for
activity improvement. These proposals shall be submitted through the NAR to the Assessment
and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee for analysis.

49The civil society consultation process shal l also be a basic principle during the
Strategy revising stage.

(4) The National Contact Point

Pursuant to the provisions on National Cont act Points (points 3.8 and 3.9) of the
EU Council recommendation on effective Roma inte gration measures in the Member States of
9-10 December 2013, the National Contact Point for Ro ma shall be responsible for coordinating
the national efforts to improve the situati on of Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority, to get involved in the proces s of assessment and monitoring the progress
recorded under the umbrella of the Strategy, to report this progress to the European Commission
and to make proposals for adapting and revising the Strategy. The Nationa l Contact Point shall
take part in the meetings organised by the European Commission and by other
European institutions on the topics mentioned above.
The National Contact Point shall ensure th at the policies and measures proposed at
national level are in line with the European recommendations and are correlated with the
Europe 2020 Strategy, by mainly guidi ng the Roma social inclusion efforts towards four areas:
education, employment, health and housing.
The tasks of the National Contact Point are the following:
a. Participating in the drafting of the Strategy an d in the developing of the action plans, in
monitoring the achievement of the measures pl anned, in updating the objectives and in the
final assessment of the Strategy results.
b. Participating in the inter-institutional coordination for the implementation of the Strategy,
together with the other central and local public administration ministri es and bodies involved,
as well as in ensuring coherence with the measures imposed through other national reform
programmes or other national strategies; being part of the selection committee of the DLRC (Local Development under Community Respons ibility) and of the Functional Working Group
of the DLRC, set up within the Ministry of European Funds.
c. Participating, after information and consultation of the Ministry of Fo reign Affairs, at the
meetings of the National Points of Contact in Europe, at workshops and experience exchange,
as well as at other gatherings related to its area of competence; submitting and reporting to
the European Commission the progress made in implementing the Strategy, the revisions and
other changes.

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12. THE MECHANISM FOR MONI TORING AND ASSESSING THE
STRATEGY
(1) Structure

The Strategy Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee shall be set up
with a view to ensuring monitoring and assessme nt of the Strategy. The committee shall be made
up of representatives of the central institutions having tasks in the implementation of the Strategy, at Secretary of State le vel. These representatives sha ll be designated by the heads of
those institutions within one month from the entr y into force of the Strategy. The committee shall
be chaired by a representative of the General Secretariat of the Government or of the
Chancellery of the Prime Minister, at Secretary of State level, designated by joint order of the
General Secretary of the Government and of the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
The activity of the Committee is supported by a Technical Secretariat , which is made up
of experts of the General Secretariat of th e Government and of the Chancellery of the
Prime Minister. The activity of this secretariat sh all be supported by two experts of the
National Agency for Roma, designated by decision of NAR pres ident, and by the
National Contact Point for the national Roma inclusion stra tegies, which shal l be designated by
Memorandum approved by the Prime Minister pursuant to the EU recommendations. The
Technical Secretariat shall be set up by joint or der of the General Secret ary of the Government
and of the head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister.
Each authority represented in the Inter-ministerial Committee shall designate, by order or
by decision of the head of that authority, a person in charge and an alternate, from the
management level, who shall be point of contact in charge fo r monitoring and assessing the
Strategy at the level of that institution and in the relation with the Technical Secretariat.

(2) Operation of the Strategy monitoring and assessment system

The monitoring and assessment system shall focus on the following aspects interrelated:
a. Semi-annual analysis of the Assessmen t and Monitoring Inter-ministerial
Committee on the Measure Plan implementation progress (Annex 2) and on the Indicators
established (Annex 3), with regard to the achievement of the results targeted through the
implementation of this Strategy. During the firs t year of Strategy impl ementation, the Committee
shall meet quarterly or as often as necessary, at the express request of any of its members, in
order to ensure that the operation of the overa ll monitoring and assessment system is checked.
The analysis shall be based on an inte grated monitoring re port drawn up by the
Technical Secretariat on the basis of the m onitoring and assessment reports submitted by the
points of contact in charge within the central institutions and the NAR, which shall also submit
reports drawn up by the CORs.
With a view to drafting this integrated repor t, the Technical Secret ariat and the points of
contact in charge organise periodic working meetings.
The NAR is in charge of developing the working instruments (monitoring plan pattern,
questionnaire, field visit form, data collection software, interview guide , etc.), including by
contracting technical assistance se rvices. Moreover, the technical assistance shall ensure training
for the human resources involved in the monitoring process and shall devel op the data collection,
analysis and reporting system, which shall be made available for ministries and local authorities.

51The indicators monito red under the monitoring and assessm ent process are subsumed under
each intervention measure specified in the Strategy (Annex 2). These specific indicators may be used
to monitor the progress in achiev ing the results ta rgeted (Annex 3).

b. Finding and implementing solutions/correct ion measures for achieving the results
proposed, when data reveal limited progress in the implementation of the Strategy.
The integrated assessment report drawn up by th e Technical Secretariat shall also contain
proposals of solutions/correction measures fo r any deficiencies found and, depending on the
progress and results recorded, propos als for updating the action plans.
The Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee shall analyse these
proposals and shall decide of the solutions/correction or improvement measures for the sectoral
activity with a view to achievi ng the objectives proposed, starting from the existing indicators.
These measures shall be submitted to the competent institutions for implementation.
Moreover, the committee may decide on measures intended to ensure the operation of the
Strategy Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee, when finding failures (reporting delays, submission of insu fficient data, etc.) and may deci de on the need to revise the

Strategy in relation with the failures found and with the national and European developments.
The committee shall draw up an annual report on the Strategy implementation progress,
which shall be submitted to the government for in formation. A summary of this report shall be
made public.
This report shall be submitted to the European Commission through the
National Contact Point.
c. In compliance with the principle of the part nership with the civil society, the process
of drafting the Strategy monitoring and asse ssment report shall include the analysis of the
recommendations made in the independent reports launched by the civil society.
These recommendations shall be presente d by the NAR within the Assessment and
Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee, based on the discussions within the Consultative Council. The Assessment and Monitoring Inter-ministerial Committee may organise meetings with the representatives of the civil society.

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13. THE MECHANISM FOR RE VISING THE STRATEGY

The Strategy shall be revised, adapted an d supplemented depending on the national or
European developments.

The Assessment and Monitoring Inter-minist erial Committee may decide on revising the
Strategy depending on the results of the internal assessment and monitoring process or at the
proposal of the National Contact Point as a result of European developments or of
recommendations from the European institutions.
In 2016, the Strategy shall be supp lemented by Government Decision with the financing sources
for the period 2017 to 2020.
The measure plans in this Strategy shall be updated after 3 years.
A basic principle in the revi sing, adapting or supplementing pr ocess remains the consultation
with the civil society, by submission of the doc ument for public debate, pursuant to law.

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The following annexes are an inte gral part of this Strategy:

Annex 2 to the Strategy – Sectoral measure plans
Annex 3 to the Strategy – Types of performance indicators for the priorities of the Strategy

Annex 2 – Sectoral measure plans
ABBREVIATIONS
ARD Agencies for Regional Development
BCERA Bucharest Centre for Educational Resources and Assistance
BCH Bucharest City Hall
CC County Council
CCERA County Centre for Educationa l Resources and Assistance
CCP County College of Physicians
CEB Council of Europe Development Bank
CRSE Centres for Resources and Support for Education
CSI County School Inspectorate
ELWG Educational Local Working Group
GDSACP General Directorate for Social Assistance and Child Protection
LC Local Council
MANRDP Management Authority for the Nati onal Rural Development Programme
MAROP Management Authority for the Re gional Operational Programme
NCSICH
National Commission for the Safeguardi ng of Intangible Cultural Heritage
NHI National Heritage Institute
NHIO National Health Insurance Office
NIPH National Institute for Public Health
PLA Public Local Authorities
RAQAHE Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education
RAQASE Romanian Agency for Quality Assurance in Secondary Education
RCESD Romanian Centre for Education and Sustainable Development
SASP 'School After School' Programme
SCP 'A Second Chance' Programme
SNHIF Single National Health Insurance Fund
TSRC Teaching-Staff Resource Centre

A. Education
Objectives:
(1) Increasing the level of educational incl usion of the Romanian citizen s belonging to the Roma mi nority, by fighting social g aps that increase
the risk of school drop-off, by positive meas ures and ensurance of equal, free and uni versal access of Roma to high quality edu cation at all
levels, in particular in the public educa tion system, in order to support economic gr owth and development of the knowledge-base d society.
(2) Promoting high quality educ ation for Roma citizens, by:
¾ facilitating access to support pr ogrammes (for example, 'School after school’) fo r Roma children with in sufficient resources (e conomic,
family, etc.) in order to ensure a high educational level;
¾ preventing and eliminating segregation in th e educational system based on ethnicity, as well as fighting ag ainst other discrimi nation
based on ethnicity, social status , disabilities or other crit eria affecting children and young people from disadvantaged groups , including
Roma;
¾ promoting programmes for safeguarding and cultivating the Roma identity in the school and university systems through language,
culture, traditions, history, etc.
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1. Development of data
collection and monitoring system concerning the
inclusion of the preschool (3-6
years) and school children (7-16 years) within a form of education. The system shall be driven (until 2016) in
minimum 300 schools where
the share of Roma students is minimum 15 %. Coordinating institution:
MESR – (in charge of tasks
related to curriculum,
assessment, extracurricular
activities and school inspection). Other institutions involved: MLFSPE, NAR, school
inspectorates, CCERA/

RCESD/CRSE
GDSACP, educational Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MESR are
required. MESR budget,
local budgets, other resources. Data collection
and monitoring system
implemented in
minimum 300 schools where the share of Roma students
is minimum
15 %. Data collection
and monitoring system
implemented
in all the schools where the share of Roma students
is minimum
15 %.

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establishments, the town hall
service for personal records, NGOs with experience in the field.
1.1. Semi-annual collection
and updating of (local, county, regional and central) data
concerning the participation of
Roma children to education at different levels. All partners, ELWG, town
halls, educational establishments, community
clinics, social assistants/ local
councillors/school mediators and health mediators. Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MESR are
required. MESR budget,
local budgets, other resources.
1.2. Annual collection and
updating of (local, county, regional and central) data concerning the level of
education of Roma who are
outside the educational system. No additional allocations from
MESR are required. Q/S/A Q/S/A MESR budget,
local budgets, other resources. MESR budget,
local budgets, other resources.
2. Extending, running,
monitoring and promoting through the media the set of support programmes aiming at stimulating school attendance,
reducing absenteeism/drop-
out/illiteracy, and obtaining school success in secondary and tertiary education. Coordinator: MESR.
School inspectorates
(tasks related to the education for disadvantaged groups, school networks and education
data IT collection), other
institutions involved: NAR, CCERA, schools. Q/S/A Q/S/A No broken down
by target group allocations from MESR are required. MESR budget,
local budgets, budgets for ESF projects at central/county
level, sponsorships.
2.1. Extending, supplementing,
adapting and revising the Funds found at
local/central level

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specific methodologies for the
organisation of the support educational programmes promoted by the new Law on the national education, with the aim
to include the maximum number
of Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority in these programmes, as well as continuing the local social support programmes and the
programmes under the
responsibility of the MESR: 'A Second Chance” (ASC); 'Functional Literacy’; 'School After School’ (SAS); money for
high school; social scholarships;
study scholarships; 'Support for computer purchase’; 'Crescent and milk’; transport expense reimbursement by the local
authorities and others. Extending
and supplementing the social support programmes shall consist in: (including
European funds), MESR budget, local budgets, sponsorships.
2.1.1. Launching a national programme through cooperation TRANSPORT
RON 40/month, Funds found at
local/central level 10 000 children
from vulnerable
Granting free

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between the central and the local
levels of the public administration with a view to granting free of charge transport to school for minimum 10 000
children from vulnerable
categories (including Roma), in rural areas, who travel more than 5 km from home to school, in localities where the share of Roma students in the school is
minimum 15 %. calculated on a
basis of 50 Km of round trip/ day/ student – (bus/ minibus/ train) – 9
months/ year.
Annual total per student: RON 360.Total for the results targeted (10 000 children):
RON 3 600 000. (including
European funds), MESR budget, local budgets, budgets for ESF
projects at
central/county level, sponsorships.categories
(including Roma), in rural areas, in localities where
the share of
Roma students in the school in minimum 15 %, as beneficiaries of free of charge
transport to
school. of charge
transport to all children from vulnerable categories
(including
Roma children).
2.1.2. Launching a national programme through cooperation
between the central and the local
levels of the public administration, with a view to
providing support for 10 000
children from vulnerable categories (including Roma) and under risk of drop-out, with a view to improving the social and
economic situation with regard
to aspects that block educational inclusion (food, clothes, housing conditions, health status, etc.). RON 400/month
per child (food: RON 170/month, clothes: RON 150/ month, housing
conditions:
RON 50/month, health status: RON 30/month) – 9 months/year.
Annual total per
student: 400*9= RON 3 600. Total for the Funds found at
local/central level (including European funds), MESR budget,
local budgets,
budgets for ESF projects at central/county level, sponsorships.10 000 children
from vulnerable categories (including Roma) and
under risk of
drop-out as beneficiaries of support with a view to
improving the
social and economic situation with Providing
support for 30 000 children from vulnerable
categories
(including Roma) and under risk of drop-out, with
a view to
improving the social and economic

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Gender balance shall be
maintained as much as possible when identifying the beneficiaries. results targeted
(10 000 children): RON 36 000 000. regard to aspects
that block educational inclusion (food, clothes, housing
conditions,
health status, etc.). situation with
regard to aspects that block educational
inclusion
(food, clothes, housing conditions, health status, etc.).
2.1.3. Extending the programme
'School After School’ (SAS), by
increasing the number of
beneficiaries by minimum
10 000 Roma children from primary and secondary levels in schools where the share of Roma
students is minimum 10 % RON 250/month:
food+ school
stationery, teacher remuneration: RON 2/student/day X 2 hours/day X 20 days/month =
RON 80/month.
Total monthly cost per student: 250+80= RON 330.
Annual total per
student (9 months): 330*9= RON 2 970. Funds found at
local/central level
(including European funds), MESR budget, local budgets, budgets for ESF
projects at
central/county level, sponsorships.Inclusion of
minimum
10 000 Roma children in the programme 'School After School’ (until
2016). Inclusion of
minimum
40 000 Roma children in the programme 'School After School’

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Total for the
results targeted (10 000 children): RON 29 700 000.
2.1.4. Extending the programme 'A Second Chance’ (ASC), by increasing the number of
beneficiaries by minimum 5 000
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority. RON 70/month:
(RON 50 – school stationery and
school books;
RON 20/teacher). Annual total per student (9 months): 70*9=
RON 630.
Total for the results targeted (5 000 beneficiaries): RON 3 150 000. Funds found at
local/central level (including
European funds),
MESR budget, local budgets, budgets for ESF projects at
central/county
level, sponsorships.5 000 Romanian
citizens belonging to the
Roma minority
as beneficiaries of 'A Second Chance’ support programmes
with a view to
improving school results. 20 000
Romanian citizens
belonging to
the Roma minority as beneficiaries of 'A Second
Chance’
support programmes with a view to improving school results
2.1.5. Launching a national support programme for 10 000
children from vulnerable
categories (including Roma) under risk of drop-out, by providing support to their families in order to increase
chances of employment
(information, mediation, RON 1 000/month
per parent.
Annual total per
beneficiary parent (6 months): 1 000*6= RON 6 000
Total for the
results targeted Funds found at
local/central level
(including
European funds), MESR budget, local budgets, budgets for ESF
projects at
central/county 10 000 parents
of children from
vulnerable
categories (including Roma) under risk of drop-out
as beneficiaries
of support 50 000 parents
of children
from
vulnerable categories (including Roma) under
risk of drop-
out as

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training), through cooperation
between the central and the local
levels of the public administration. (10 000
beneficiaries): RON 60 000 000 level, sponsorships. intended to
increase chances of employment on the labour market
(information,
mediation, training). beneficiaries
of support intended to increase chances of
employment
on the labour market (information, mediation, training).
2.1.6 Launching a national
support programme for Roma
children having ante pre-school, pre-school, primary school and lower secondary school ages, who are outside the educational system, with a view to their
enrolment in ante pre-school,
pre-school/school units and to their access to education (identification, parental counselling, clothes, food,
shortening the duration
necessary to reach the closest kindergarten/school, etc.), through cooperation between the RON 320/month,
of which: food –
RON 100; school stationery RON 50, clothes – RON 150; teacher – RON 20. Annual
total per
beneficiary (9 months) 320*9= RON 2 880. Total for the
results targeted
(5 800 pre-school students + 2 000 school students): Funds found at
local/central level
(including European funds), MESR budget, local budgets, budgets for ESF
projects at
central/county level, sponsorships.5 800 Roma
children having
ante pre-school and pre-school ages who are not enrolled in kindergartens
will receive,
until 2016, support to enrol in kindergarten and to benefit
from ante pre-
school/pre-school/school education 20 000 Roma
children
having ante pre-school and pre-school ages who are not enrolled in
kindergartens
will receive support to enrol in kindergarten
and to benefit
from pre-school education

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central and the local levels of the
public administration. The contribution of school mediators (by identifying the Roma pre-school/school students who do
not attend kindergarten, by
facilitating the provision of parental counselling, clothes, food, free of charge transport, etc.) will be essential. RON 22 464 000
2 000 Roma children having primary school or lower
secondary
school ages, as support beneficiaries for enrolment and actual
attendance of
school courses.
All Roma children having primary school or
lower
secondary school ages, as support beneficiaries for enrolment
and actual
attendance of school courses.
2.1.7. Launching a national programme for the restoration of schools where a share of minimum 15 % Roma students
are learning, which have not
been beneficiaries of other
similar school restoration programmes, through cooperation between the central
and the local levels of the public
administration. RON 500 000/per
school. Total for the results targeted
(200 schools):
RON 100 000 000 Funds found at
local/central level (including European funds),
MESR budget,
local budgets, sponsorships. 200 schools
where a share of minimum 15 % Roma students
are learning will
be subject to school restoration. All schools
where a share of minimum 15 % Roma
students are
learning, which have not been beneficiaries
of other similar
school restoration programmes.

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2.2. Promoting and running
parental education programmes at local level, as well as activities/projects on school-family, school-community
cooperation: Mothers’ School,
Parents’ School, etc. No additional
expenses from MESR are required. ESF,
budgets of schools/ town halls/ school inspectorates / CCERA-BCERA,
local/Bucharest
public authorities.
2.3. Continuing the 'Summer
Kindergarten’ programme (in the version 'All To Kindergarten– Each one to its grade/All To Kindergarten – All to the
preparatory grade/All to the first
grade') and of other similar alternative Community initiatives in the areas where local educational establishments find at least 7-10 Roma children
who did not attend preschool
education. RON 420/month
per beneficiary: RON 250 food + clothes; RON 150 school stationary;
RON 20 teacher.
For an average of 20 beneficiaries enrolled in kindergarten, the cost for organising
a summer
kindergarten is 420*20=8 400 Annual total (3 months):
RON 25 200
Total for the results targeted: 100 kindergartens ESF,
budgets of schools/ town halls/ school inspectorates / CCERA-BCERA,
local/Bucharest
public authorities. 100
kindergartens organised at local level. 300
kindergartens organised at local level.

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* 25 200=
RON 2 520 000.
2.4. Extending the network of
kindergartens/classes with teaching in Romany as mother tongue, including through
bilingual teaching approaches, in
the beginning (Romany –
Romanian; Romany – Hungarian, etc.), and of language, history, traditions and music classes in Romany, in the
communities with at least 7-10
requests of this kind. Publishing the school books necessary for education in Romany for the subjects taught in this language. No additional
allocations from MESR are required. 20 new
kindergartens with teaching in Romany as mother tongue. 80 new
kindergartens with teaching in Romany as mother tongue.
2.5. Organising by MESR, together with local and county schools, of national and
international school contests and
olympiads, with a view to promoting the language, literature and literary creation, history and culture of Roma, the
diversity, alterity,
interculturality, non- Funds found at
local/central level (including
European funds),
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discrimination and non-
segregation.
2.6. Particularizing the ASC programme for people needing to be alphabetized. RON 70/month:
(RON 50 school stationery and school books; RON 20 teacher).
Annual total per
student (9 months): 70*9= RON 630. Annual total for
the target group
concerned (5 000 beneficiaries): RON 3 150 000 Funds found at
local/central level (including European funds), MESR budget,
local budgets,
budgets for ESF projects at central/county level, sponsorships.5 000 people
alphabetized. 15 000 people
alphabetized by 2020.
3. Harmonizing and supplementing the quality assurance system, with focus on the management of
inclusive education (adapted to
Roma specificity). MESR – coordinating
institution (persons in charge
of tasks related to the education of disadvantaged
groups and to the achievement
of real school progress, as well as RAQASE experts), school inspectorates, educational establishments,
CCERA/BCERA,
RCESD/CRSE, NAR, NGOs Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MESR are required. Budgets of the
MESR, CSIs and TSRCs, budgets for county ESF
projects.

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with experience in the field
3.1. Adapting and supplementing
the set of RAQASE standards on
quality in education with a significant number of Roma students. Revising the methodologies concerning the
assessment criteria for teachers,
headmasters and educational establishments, with a view to increasing the share of the inclusive education component
and of the component referring
to working with groups having a different cultural specificity, originating in disadvantaged environments, including Roma, implementing active-
participative methods. No additional
allocations from
MESR are required.
3.2. Revising the school
inspection methodology from the
perspective of including the component of remedial education and real school progress, multi- and intercultural
education, inclusive education,
as well as monitoring the No additional
allocations from
MESR are required.

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measures for promoting
inclusive education through school inspection and through the commissions for quality assurance.
3.3. Analysing and updating the continuing education
methodology, with a view to
enhancing the inclusive education modules, focusing on knowledge of fundamental Roma values, of the set of Roma
customs whose overlooking by
the teaching staff might have a negative impact to the disadvantage of the Roma students. Involving the TSRCs in supporting non-discrimination,
equal opportunities,
multiculturalism, interculturalism and inclusive education, through the organisation of trainings in the
area of educational romanipen
(ensemble of customs and fundamental values of Roma), of diversity under all its forms, etc., MESR and the
CSIs/TSRCs shall
provide for the
annual budget allocations necessary to organise and run
training courses in
the area of educational romanipen (Roma’s tragic history, Roma
customs, specific
communication in school and community space including Roma,
history of Roma
education and its desiderata). 200 teachers
working in
schools where
the share of Roma students is above 15 % to
be trained on the
specific topic of
the compliance with the principles of inclusive school, of the
knowledge and
implementation of Roma history and culture elements.

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at county, local, educational
establishment containing Roma students (min. 15 %) levels, and with a view to using the set of measures on inclusive education,
the attitudes and values of non-
discrimination, non-segregation, of alterity and interculturality et al.
3.4. Training resources people as MESR trainers on educational romanipen, for the needs of each
CSI/ISMB/TSRC, with a view to
ensuring the training modules on Roma specificity (history, customs, traditions, culture and Romany language). National MESR
budget. Annually, 450
county trainers on
educational romanipen X 2 training days/pers. X RON 150/day/pers
. = RON 135 000
(accommodation and meals) + 58 500 transport = RON 293 500/year
.
Total budget for two years: 2 * 293 500 = Local budgets,
budgets of CSI, TSRC, CCERA-
BCERA CCJ/,
budgets for ESF projects or other funding sources for annual organisation of similar MESR
trainings in each
county, with the participation of 450 teachers/county
from educational
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RON 587 000. children and
students.
3.5. Implementing Order No 1529 of the Minister of Education, Research and Youth of 18 July 2007 concerning the development of the problem of
diversity in the national
curriculum, by inserting concrete provisions in the new curricula intended to impose on authors and publishing houses the
mandatory insertion of diversity
elements (related to history, ethnicity, linguistics, culture, genre, physics, religion, etc.) in all school books, irrespective of subject matter or study level. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
4. Continuing measures to
prevent segregation of Roma
children and students and to
remove potential segregations occurred in the educational system. MESR – coordinating
institution (persons in charge
of tasks related to the
education of disadvantaged groups, with the school network and the movement of the teaching staff), NAR,
RAQASE, school
inspectorates, CCERA-Q/S/A Q/S/A Budgets of
MESR, CSI,
CC/LC, budgets
for ESF projects or other funding sources.

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BCERA, educational
establishments, CC/LC, NGOs with experience in the field.
4.1. Revising by the MESR of Law No 1/2011 and of Order No 1540 of the Minister of Education, Research and Youth
of 19 July 2007 concerning the
interdiction of Roma children school segregation and approving the Methodology for preventing and eliminating
Roma children school
segregation, as well as other related documents, with a view to avoiding segregation cases and to including provisions intended to prevent, forbid,
correct and remove such
phenomena in the educational system. Amending Order No 1540 of 19 July 2007 by supplementing
provisions concerning mandatory
actions and measures in cases of ethnic segregation.
No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
4.2. Drawing up county No additional All counties will School

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segregation prevention plans,
monitoring the way of making up kindergarten groups and cycle starting grades (preparatory grade/first grade, fifth grade) by
all the inspectors of each school
inspectorate, when visiting the educational establishments, from February to September of each year. School inspectorates should analyse county and local plans
on preventing segregations and,
in exceptional, unwanted cases of segregation, specific de-segregation plans shall be drawn up and implemented
immediately. The permanent
contribution of the school mediator is necessary in all these cases. allocations from
MESR are required. have drawn up
prevention plans
for school segregation on ethnicity
grounds based
on the monitoring, at the initiative and with the direct contribution of
school
mediators. School mediators shall
be co-opted by
educational
establishments in all activities for continuous prevention of
segregation,
including data collection for identifying segregation cases and their segregation is
prevented and removed in all schools.

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submission to
school inspectorates and to the Ministry of
Education.
Employment of school mediators within educational establishments
where there is
fear of school segregation.
5. Restructuring initial university training of teachers, taking into account the compliance with the principles
of inclusive school, of
knowledge and implementation of Roma history and culture elements acquired during their initial training under the
teacher training module. MESR – coordinating
institution (people in charge
of tasks related to initial training, pedagogical
university education and
school/social inclusion), school inspectorates, TSRCs, RAQAHE, RAQASE, conference of university
presidents, university president
offices of higher education institutes, educational establishments, NGOs with Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MNE are required.Budgets of MESR,
TSRCs, universities, ESF budgets. University
modules/courses for the promotion of
diversity, of the
desiderata of inclusive school and educational romanipen have
been included in
the whole university system.

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
experience in the field.
6. Extending the promotion of
cultivation of the Roma
language, history and traditions in the secondary and the tertiary educational systems. MESR – coordinating
institution (people in charge
of tasks related to the education of disadvantaged groups, inclusive education), NAR, school inspectorates, the
Teaching-Staff Resource
Centres, the Department for Inter-ethnical Relations, NGOs with experience in the field. Q/S/A Q/S/A
6.1. Equipping the libraries in
TSRCs and educational establishments (having minimum
15 % of Roma students) with
materials in the field of Roma language, history and culture, including the organisation of virtual sections of libraries containing papers in pdf format. No additional
allocations from MESR are
required. Budgets of MESR,
CSI, TSRC, budgets of county
ESF projects,
sponsorships. 300 schools
equipped with materials in the
field of Roma
language, history and culture, including the organisation of
virtual sections
of libraries containing papers in pdf format.
6.2. Setting up one or several
high schools with Romany as No additional
allocations from Minimum one
high school with Minimum
three high

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teaching language (grades 1 to
12), with parallel classes at grades 9 to 12 with bilingual teaching Romany-Romanian and with parallel classes for school
mediators, music, theatre and
dance, traditional trades adapted to the modern context MESR are
required. Romany as
teaching language (grades 1 to 12) to be set up by 2016. schools with
Romany as teaching language (grades 1 to
12) to be set up
by 2020.
6.3. Setting up of Romany language and culture departments/study lines at old, well-known universities. No additional
allocations from MESR are required. 3 5
7. Continuing positive
measures for training and
employing Roma human
resources in the educational system, who should have permanent, direct and effective access to and support for the Roma communities, who
should be aware of the real
needs and the real solutions. MESR – coordinating
institution (people in charge
of tasks related to the
education of disadvantaged groups and to the movement of the teaching staff). School inspectorates, secondary and tertiary educational
establishments. Other bodies
directly involved: NAR, UNICEF. Q/S/A Q/S/A CSI- MESR.
7.1. Ensuring, at the level of
each CSI, one full-time position of school inspector for Roma educational issues and teaching MESR shall ensure
42 full-time positions of school inspector for Roma Budgets of
partners, off-budget funds, sponsorships,

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of or in Romany. Continuing the
training of school inspectors on Roma educational issues, of method developers for Roma language, history and culture.
Getting Roma and school
mediators into schools. educational issues
and teaching of or in Romany, o
f
Roma history and culture, according
to Article 95(5) of
Law No 1/2011:
'School inspectorates
shall also include
school inspectors for
children and youth
from socially and
economically
disadvantaged environments’.
budgets of MESR,
CSI, TSRC.
7.2. Continuing the training of school mediators from MESR funds, regular training of school mediators through courses organised by the MESR together
with other governmental, non-
governmental and inter-governmental institutions, using funds that have been jointly found and attracted. Annually, the
training of 3 potential Roma school mediators/county
X 42 counties =
126 X 10 days/training X RON 300/day/pers. = RON 252 000
+ 25 200 transport
= RON 277 200/yearTotal for the Budget of the
MESR. 252 new school
mediators trained.

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results targeted:
RON 277 200*2 years = RON 554 400.
7.3. Employment of school
mediators in all 1 680 educational establishments
where the number of Roma
children and students is minimum 15 % (percentage to be re-validated by the educational establishments together with the
Roma organisations, the Roma
representatives, the local and county Roma bodies). School mediators shall be co-opted by educational establishments in all activities for continuous
prevention of segregation.
The 1 680 school mediators shall
be employed according to
Article 250 of Law No 1/2011 and of Order No 1539 of the
Ministry of Education, Research
and Youth of 19 July 2007. RON 1 000/month
per mediator * 24 months = RON 24 000 per year.
Total for the results targeted: 600*24 000=
RON 14 400 000. Educational
establishments Co-optation and
employment of minimum 600
school mediators
in educational establishments needing school mediation. Co-optation
and employment of
school
mediators in all 1 680 educational establishments
where the
number of Roma children and students is minimum 15 %
7.4. Continuing initial/further
training on Romany language Annual training of
3 potential Budget of the
MESR. 252 people
trained as

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intended to Roma or non-Roma,
skilled or unskilled teachers, who will teach/are teaching Romany language or in Romany language at kindergartens and in
schools. Romany
kindergarten/primary school/secondary school
teachers/county X
42 counties = 126 X 20 days/training X RON 300/day/pers = RON 504 000 +
25 200 transport =
RON 529 200/
year. Total for the results targeted:
RON 529 200 *2
years = RON 1 058 400 potential
Romany kindergarten/ primary school/ secondary
school teachers.
7.5. Increasing the number of
Roma youth accepted on special places for Roma candidates to admission to higher vocational
education by 200 (by 2016, as
compared to 2014). Supplementing the legislation on the access of Roma candidates to No additional
allocations from MESR are required. 800 Roma youth
enrolled at university on separate places
intended to
Roma candidates (as compared to 600 1 000 Roma
youth enrolled at university on separate
places
intended to Roma candidates (as

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special places, with a view to
allowing the candidates obtaining admission grades that are higher than the last admission average on normal
places without tuition to have
those places, leaving the special places to Roma candidates having obtained admission grades that are lower than the last admission average on normal
places without tuition.
Moreover, Roma candidates who have taken no-tuition places after the admission tests should keep their no-tuition place until the
end of the university studies –
provided that he or she passes al annual exams. in 2013). compared to
600 in 2013).
8. Monitoring the activity of the CSIs and of the local support groups/committees in order to improve the access of
disadvantaged groups to
education. MESR – coordinating
institution (people in charge
of tasks related to the education of disadvantaged
groups and to school
inspection), school inspectorates, secondary education establishments, Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MESR are required. Budget of the
MESR,
budgets of
ESF projects or other financing
sources.

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
CC/LC, NAR, central and
local institutions, NGOs with experience in the field.
8.1. Drawing up the set of educational standard procedures concerning the efficient inter-institutional cooperation at
county/local level, as part of the
monitoring system. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
9. Participation of the local
community at activities and programmes for improving non-discriminatory access of Roma children from
disadvantaged groups to
compulsory education, within state education. MESR – coordinator (people
in charge of tasks related to the education of disadvantaged groups and to school inspection), school
inspectorates, education
establishments, CCERA/ RCESD/CRSE and the MLFSP, NAR, CC/LC, GDSACP, NGOs with experience in the field, mass
media. Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from MESR are required. Budget of the
MESR, local budgets,
budgets of
ESF projects or other financing
sources.
9.1. Supplementing the
methodology on setting up the school board by provisions ensuring proportional representation and relevant participation of Roma parents in No additional
allocations from MESR are required.

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
the decision-making process of
the school board.
9.2. Setting up county and local
Educational Working Groups for supporting access to education for disadvantaged groups, including Roma. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
9.3. Including the proposals of
these support groups/committees
in the County strategies for
improving access to education. No additional
allocations from
MESR are
required.
9.4. Including information on
school participation and performances of Roma students in the reports and strategic documents of the CSIs, as well
as publishing and distributing
publications, studies, pointing out examples of success with regard to Roma’s participation to education. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
10. Information/dissemination
with regard to
segregation/desegregation,
non-discriminatory access to education, preventing school absenteeism and school drop-MESR – coordinating
institution (people in charge
of tasks related to the
education of disadvantaged groups, public policies and the relation with the social Q/S/A Q/S/A No additional
allocations from
MESR are
required. Budgets of the
MNE
CSI, CC,
budgets of ESF
projects or other financing source.

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
out, abuse and neglect of
disadvantaged children. partners), school inspectorates,
NAR, central institutions (involved in settling issues related to disadvantage groups), CC/LC, NGOs with
experience in the field, mass
media.
10.1. Continuing to edit and post on MESR site the electronic newsletter concerning Roma children education. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.
10.2. Setting up and running
campaigns on preventing discrimination and on promoting
diversity and the principles of
inclusion in the educational system. No additional
allocations from MESR are
required.

10.3. Introducing certain
initial/training programmes in schools for non-Roma teachers, non-Roma parents and students
in the spirit of the respect for
diversity, interculturality, multiculturalism, prevention and fight against discrimination, knowledge of Roma culture, customs and mentalities. No additional
allocations from MESR are required.

B. Employment
Main objective:
Accessing active measures with a view to increase employment opportunities for Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority .
Specific objectives for the employment area, in accordance with the tasks provided for by law with a view to implementing the
Government Strategy intended to improve Roma status:
– Increasing the number of persons belonging to Ro ma minority who are active on the labour market.
– Increasing the number of Roma women who are active on the labour market.
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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
The measures implemented
pursuant to Law No 76/2002, with
a view to integrating vulnerable categories, including Roma on the labour market, are included in the vocational training and employment programmes and
consist of : NAE P M Concerning the
financing of active measures for Romanian citizens belonging to the
Roma minority ,
the NAE does not
budget allocations exclusively for Roma, as they refer to all the
beneficiaries,
which ensures non-discriminatory Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment; the ESF 70 000
Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority having accessed active measures.At least 75 000
Romanian
citizens belonging to the Roma minority having
accessed active
measures / 4 500 people employed as a result of
accessing
active measures 1. Number of

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
access to the
active measures for all interested persons. Roma citizens
having accessed active measures
1. Free of charge carrier
information and counselling services for job seekers NAE A M The costs for this
active measure are in-house Budget of social
insurance for unemployment European funds 5 000 Roma
citizens informed and counselled At least 7 500
Roma citizens informed and counselled
2. Free of charge mediation
services concerning
vacancies or new jobs NAE A M The costs for this
active measure are
in-house Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment;
European funds At least 5 000
people mediated,
of which at least
2 000 people employed as a result of mediation At least 7 500
people
mediated, of
which at least 4 000 people employed as a result of
mediation
3. Stimulation of labour force
mobility through employment
or installation bonuses, as appropriate; NAE A M 10 pers. x 2 x
RON 500 =
RON 10 000 10 pers. x 7 x RON 500 = RON 35 000 Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment European funds 60 people as
beneficiaries of
this measure At least 100
people as
beneficiaries of this measure
4. Organisation of vocational
trainings for job seekers; NAE A M 1 000 people/year
X RON 1 000 =
RON 1 000 000 Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment
European funds 1 000 Romanian
citizens
belonging to the
Roma minority 1 500
Romanian
citizens
belonging to

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trained for trades
or qualifications in demand on the labour market the Roma
minority trained for trades or qualifications in demand on
the labour
market
5. Competence assessment for
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority NAE A M 100 people/year X
RON 1 500 = RON 150 000 Budget of social
insurance for unemployment European funds 100 Roma
citizens/year to be assessed and certified in competences
acquired
informally 150 Roma
citizens/year to be assessed and certified in competences
acquired
informally
6. Subsidies for employers in
case of employment of people
belonging to disadvantaged
categories or having more difficulties to access the labour market NAE A M 100 persons X
RON 500 (social
indicator) X 9 months = RON 450 000 Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment European funds 100 people as
beneficiaries of
this measure 150 people as
beneficiaries
of this measure
7. Personalised support for
youth at risk of social
marginalisation through
conclusion of solidarity contracts and provision of NAE A M 50 Roma youth
employed/year x 2
x 500 x12 months
= RON 600 000 Budget of social
insurance for
unemployment
European funds 50 people as
beneficiaries of
this measure 100 people as
beneficiaries
of this measure

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results targeted Financing sources 2016 2020
specific services, including
provision of subsidies to insertion employers who employ people from this category.

C. Health
MAIN OBJECTIVE: Improving the h ealth status of Romanian citi zens belonging to the Roma minority by increasing access to prevent ive and
curative health services and by promoting hea lthy lifestyle.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
1. Improving the access of Romanian citizens be longing to the Roma minority to integrated and high quality, basi c, preventive and curative
health services; 2. Mitigating risks and preventing diseases related to the mortal ity and morbidity patterns prevailing among the Roma population;
3. Increasing the instit utional capacity of lo cal public authorities in the process of establishing health-related needs, of deve loping and
implementing health-related programmes/interventions intended fo r the Roma communities, and of their monitoring and assessment;
4. Preventing the discrimination of the Romanian citizens be longing to the Roma minority who access health services.

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b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
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until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Improving the access of citizens belonging to the Roma minority to integrated and high quality, basic, preventive and curati ve health services
Action line 1.1.: Developing the network of basic health services and promoting the provision of community integrated services in the areas of social
protection, education and health
1.1. Improving the regulatory framework for health-related
community assistance a. MH, NIPH 2015,
permane
ntly S/A No additional
allocations from
the MH are required National budget Operational regulatory
framework for basic
services Operational regulatory
framework for
specialised services
1.2. Ensuring methodological support from central and regional authorities: a. standards and procedures
concerning the integrated a. MH, NIPH
b. MLFSPE/MESR
MRDPA/NAR/specialised public
institutions/CC/LP2016 –
permanently 2020 S/A Included in the
estimation of RON 45 000 000 National and local
budget European Funds, UNICEF – Inter-ministerial
Statutory Working Group with participants from the
civil society – Compliance of
community health care services with methodological
standards

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charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
community services,
b. periodic assessment of the operation of the integrated services system A/NGOs – Standards and
working procedures defined – Monitoring and
assessment plan – 3 annual reports
concerning the assessment of integrated community
assistance services
(2016, 2018, 2020)
1.3. Setting up/Extending at national level the network o
f
community centres providing integrated basic services a.
MH/NIPH//MFSPE/MNE/MRDPA
b. CC/LPA,
specialised public
institutions, NGOs 2020 A RON 45 000 000
estimation from the national budget and from projects with
European, Swiss
and Norwegian financing National budget,
the Swiss Financial Mechanism, the Norwegian
Financial
Mechanism RO 19, European funds Community centres
providing social and health integrated basic services Community centres
providing social and health integrated basic services
1.4. Developing the institutional capacity of the health community service providers: a. education and training
b. development of working
instruments in integrated system, guidelines and practice protocols a. MH, NIPH
b. MLFSPE/
MRDPA/NAR/ specialised public
institutions/CC/LP
A/NGOs 2016 –
permanently 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget,
the Swiss Financial Mechanism, the
Norwegian
Financial Mechanism RO 19, UNICEF, European funds Basic community
services providers educated and/or trained according to
the guidelines and
procedures defined – Working instruments in integrated system, guidelines and practice
protocols defined Basic community
services providers educated and/or trained according to
the guidelines and
procedures defined – Working instruments in integrated system, guidelines and
practice protocols
defined

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charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1.5. Giving priority to Roma
community nurse and to the health mediator when employing staff for Roma rural communities a. MH, NIPH
MRDPA/CC/LPA/ specialised public institutions 2016 –
permanently 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National and local
budget, the Norwegian Financial
Mechanism RO
19, European funds Increasing the number
of Roma nurses employed and/or of health mediators Increasing the number
of Roma nurses employed and/or of health mediators
1.6. Supporting scholarship programmes for Roma youth, which should facilitate their access to post-secondary and
tertiary education in the area of
health services a. MH/MNE
b. universities,
other educational establishments 2020 A No financial
allocation from the MH is required National budget
European funds Scholarship
programmes for Roma youth, which should facilitate their access
to education in the
area of health servicesScholarship
programmes for Roma youth, which should facilitate their access
to education in the
area of health services
1.7. Supporting Roma graduates of health studies to be employed on the labour market (including in Roma communities) in the conditions laid down in the legislation in force a. MH/MLFSP 2020 A No financial
allocation from the MH is required Increasing the number
of Roma employees with health studies, including in Roma communities Increasing the number
of Roma employees with health studies, including in Roma communities
Action line 1.2: Increasing the share of Roma population with access to basic health services
1.2.1. Counselling the Roma
population on the right to the
minimum health service package
for the people who are not included in the health insurance system a. MH, NIPH
b. specialised
public institutions/
providers of community services/NGOs 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000
estimation National and local
budget
European funds Increase in the number
of Roma people
informed (by type of
communities/groups) Increase in the
number of Roma
people informed (by
type of communities/groups)

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charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1.2.2. Registering the Roma
population on the lists of the family physicians a. MH, NHIO
b. providers of
community services, family
physicians 2016 –
permanently 2020 Q/S/A – No financial
allocation from the MH is required SNHIF budget Increase in the number
of Roma people having visited the family physician at
least once a year
54 Increase in the
number of Roma people having visited the family physician
at least once a year
55
1.2.3. Monitoring the access of the uninsured Roma population
to the minimum health service package a. MH, NIPH
b. specialised
public institutions/ providers of community services/NGOs 2016 –
permane
ntly 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000
estimation National and local
budget
European funds – Increase in the
number of uninsured
Roma people benefiting of health services
56 – Increase in the
number of uninsured
Roma people benefiting of health services
57
2. Mitigating risks and preventing diseases related to the mortality and morbidity pa tterns prevailing among the Roma populatio n
Action line 2.1.: Mitigating the incidence of transmissi ble and non-transmissible diseases among the Roma population
2.1. Increasing vaccine coverage
for children from vulnerable categories, including Roma a. MH, NHIO,
NIPH, specialised bodies,
b. providers of
health services,
including at community level 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget
the Norwegian Financial Mechanism RO
19, European
funds Increase in the number
of vaccinated childrenIncrease in the
number of vaccinated children

54 To be collected through the community se rvice providers and the family physicians
55 To be collected through the community se rvice providers and the family physicians
56 Idem 3, 4
57 Idem 3, 4

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b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
2.2. Implementing programmes
on primary prevention and early detection of prevailing chronical diseases in the case of the Roma
population a. MH/NHIO/
NIPH/CC/LPA/ specialised bodies,
b. providers of
health services,
including at community level, NGOs 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget
the Norwegian Financial Mechanism RO
19, European
funds – Programmes on
primary prevention and early detection of prevailing chronical
diseases in the case of
the Roma population implemented in each county – Annual report on priority transmissible
diseases – Programmes on
primary prevention and early detection of prevailing chronical
diseases in the case of
the Roma population implemented in each county – Annual report on priority transmissible
diseases
2.3. Implementing programmes
for the prevention of transmissible diseases, in particular tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS a. MSH, NIPH
b. public
institutions, providers of health services, including at community level,
NGOs 2016 –
permanently 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget
the Global Fund, the Norwegian Financial Mechanism RO 19, European
funds Programmes for the
prevention of transmissible diseases, in particular tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS intended
for the Roma
communities implemented in each county Programmes for the
prevention of transmissible diseases, in particular tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS intended
for the Roma
communities implemented in each county
2.4. Developing partnerships
between the decentralised bodies
of the MH, the local public
authorities and the civil society
in the area of health promotion a. CC/decentralised
bodies b. LPA/specialised
public
institutions/NGOs 2016 –
permanently
2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget,
European funds Programmes for the
promotion of a healthy lifestyle (campaigns)
intended for the Roma
communities Programmes for the
promotion of a healthy lifestyle
(campaigns) intended
for the Roma

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charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
and implementing programmes
and projects in this field implemented in each
county communities
implemented in each county
Action line 2.2: Increasing the prevalence of using family planni ng, in particular among youth, and implementing interventions related to woman
and child health
2.2.1. Informing and counselling
Roma women and girls on reproduction health, the risks
related to early marriage, mother
and child health, prevention and fight against domestic violence and human trafficking a. MH/CC/
specialised bodies b. LPA/ specialised
public
institutions/NGOs 2016 –
permanently
2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget,
European funds Increase in the number
of persons informed and counselled
Increase in the
number of persons informed and
counselled

2.2.2. Extending territorial (and population) coverage in terms of free of charge contraceptive
measures a. MH/NHIO
b. specialised
bodies, NGOs 2016 –
permanently
2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget,
European funds Family planning
services and free of charge contraceptive
measures available Family planning
services and free of charge contraceptive
measures available
2.2.3. Increasing the capacity of the staff working in the
community network for reproduction health, mother and child health a. MH/CC/
specialised bodies
b. LPA/specialised
public institutions/NGOs 2016 –
permane
ntly 2020 A Included in the
RON 45 000 000
estimation National budget
and local budgets
European funds Increase in the number
of community basic
service providers who are educated and/or trained in the area of reproduction health, Increase in the
number of community
basic service providers who are educated and/or trained in the area of

Institutions in
charge Time-
limit Assess
ment
periodBudget Results
Measures a. Institutions in
charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
mother and child
health 58 reproduction health,
mother and child health
59
3. Increasing the institutional capacity of loca l public authorities in the process of establishing health-related needs, of devel oping and implementing
health-related programmes/interventions intended for the Ro ma communities, and of thei r monitoring and assessment
3.1. Developing training
programmes for the local authorities in the area of health
policies based on examples of
success, of public health and of the organisation of the health service system a. MH, NIPH/
specialised bodies/ NIPH/NAR
b.CC/LPA, NGOs 2016 –
permanently
2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation Local budgets,
European funds,the Norwegian
Financial
Mechanism RO 19 Increase in the number
of personnel working in the bodies of the
CC/LPA
60 who are
trained in health policies based on examples of success, in public health and in
the organisation of the
health service system Increase in the
number of personnel working in the bodies
of the CC/LPA
61 who
are trained in health policies based on examples of success, in public health and in
the organisation of the
health service system
3.2. Identifying/mapping the health-related and social needs of the population at risk in both urban and rural areas a. MH/specialised
bodies b. CC/LPA, NGOs 2016 –
permanently 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget
and local budgets European funds Increase in the number
of vulnerable people per integrated community service provider Increase in the
number of vulnerable people per integrated community service provider

58 Including acknowledgement of the diversity of customs and traditions in Roma communities
59 Including acknowledgement of the diversity of customs and traditions in Roma communities
60 The training shall include principles/practices of non-discrimination and respect of human rights
61 The training shall include principles/practices of non-discrimination and respect of human rights

Institutions in
charge Time-
limit Assess
ment
periodBudget Results
Measures a. Institutions in
charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
3.3. Drawing up and
implementing local, county and regional health plans adapted to the specificity of each
community a. CC/LPA/
specialised bodies
b. LPA/specialised
public
institutions/NGOs 2016 –
permanently 2020 S/A No additional
allocation from the MH is required National budget
and local budgets European funds Local and county
plans drawn up according to national standards Local and county
plans drawn up according to national standards
3.4. Providing technical
assistance for drawing up and
implementing health plans a. MH/specialised
bodies/NAR
b. CC, LPA/
specialised public institutions/NGOs 2016 –
permane
ntly 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000
estimation Local budgets,
European funds Achievement/impleme
ntation of the
measures consisting in the county/local health plans for health services Achievement/impleme
ntation of the
measures consisting in the county/local health plans for health services
3.5. Strengthening the capacity of local authorities to acknowledge
and respond to health-related
problems of the Roma/other vulnerable groups and their training in accessing European funds for this purpose a. MH/MLFSP/
MRDPA/NAR
b. CC/LPA/
specialised public institutions/NGOs 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000
estimation Local budgets,
European funds Increase in the number
of representatives of
local and regional
authorities trained in accessing European funds intended for the communities containing vulnerable
groups, including
Roma Increase in the
number of
representatives of
local and regional authorities trained in accessing European funds intended for the communities
containing vulnerable
groups, including Roma
3.6. Developing standardised instruments for analysis/data collection/planning/communication between local and central a. MH/MLFSP/
MRDPA/NIPH/NAR
b. CC, LPA/ 2020 S/A Included in the
RON 45 000 000 estimation National budget
and local budgets European funds, the Norwegian – Standardised
instruments for analysis/data collection/planning – Standardised
instruments for analysis/data collection/planning

Institutions in
charge Time-
limit Assess
ment
periodBudget Results
Measures a. Institutions in
charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
public authorities involved in
Roma health monitoring specialised public
institutions/NGOs Financial
Mechanism RO 19 – Research reports on
Roma health – Research reports on
Roma health
4. Preventing the discrimination of the Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority who access health services
4.1. Promoting education on non-
discrimination of vulnerable groups in medical secondary, tertiary and postgraduate
education a.
MH/MNE/MCR, universities of medicine and
pharmacy, NAR
b. educational
establishments, providers of training
programmes,
NGOs 2016 –
permanently 2020 A No financial
allocation from the MH is required National budget,
European funds Education on non-
discrimination of vulnerable groups included in medical
secondary, tertiary and
postgraduate educationEducation on non-
discrimination of vulnerable groups included in medical
secondary, tertiary
and postgraduate education
4.2. Introducing the concept of antidiscrimination in the training programme for community integrated basic service providers a. MH, NAR
b. specialised
bodies/LPA/NGOs2016 –
permanently 2020 A No additional
allocation from the MH is required National budget,
European funds Community service
providers are educated in the prevention/fight against discrimination of Roma patients Community service
providers are educated in the prevention/fight against discrimination of Roma patients
4.3. Developing a mechanism for monitoring and treating
discrimination cases at the level
of the Ethics Committees of hospitals a. MH/
NHIO/CMR, NAR
b. specialised
bodies/NGOs 2016 –
permane
ntly
2020 A No additional
allocation from
the MH is
required National budget The Ethics
Committees of the
hospitals have
operational mechanisms for monitoring and The Ethics
Committees of the
hospitals have
operational mechanisms for monitoring and

Institutions in
charge Time-
limit Assess
ment
periodBudget Results
Measures a. Institutions in
charge
b. Institutions
involved in
implementation M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
treating cases of
discrimination of Roma patients treating cases of
discrimination of Roma patients
4.4. Setting up a hotline for complaints related to the discrimination of Roma patients
who access health services, at the
level of each county a. CC
b. LPA 2020 No financial
allocation from the MH is
required Local budgets,
European funds Each county council
has a hotline for complaints related to
the discrimination of
Roma patients who access health services Each county council
has a hotline for complaints related to
the discrimination of
Roma patients who access health services
4.5. Developing and assuming, at the level of the College of Physicians, a procedure for implementing Order 137/2003
and accepting a neutral observer
from the central or local bodies of the National Agency for Roma, in the Ethics Committees of county subsidiaries of the College of Physicians, at the
proceedings for assessing cases
containing Roma discrimination elements a. MH/MCR/NAR
b. County
subsidiaries of the College of
Physicians 2016 –
permanently 2020 A No financial
allocation from the MH is required National budget Implementing
procedure for Order No 137/2003 implemented by the
Romanian College of
Physicians. Observers from NAR bodies are part of all Ethics Committees of county subsidiaries of
the College of
Physicians which treat cases of Roma discrimination Implementing
procedure for Order No 137/2003 implemented by the
Romanian College of
Physicians. Observers from NAR bodies are part of all Ethics Committees of county subsidiaries of
the College of
Physicians which treat cases of Roma discrimination

D. Housing and small infrastructure
Time-
limit Assess
ment
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-
annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with
the results
targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
Institutional and
partnership
framework define
Working group set up
1. Developing a project for
integrated urban regeneration
and eradication of insanitary
habitats MRDPA,
Bucharest City
Hall, District 5
Town Hall 2016 S To be identified 2014-2020
European funds
Integrated local
development strategy, first individual projects
implemented Individual projects
related to the strategy implemented, housing conditions improved,
restored areas, access
to improved social services
2015 S RON 123 740 MRDPA budget Guidelines approved
by order of the minister and implemented by the local public
administration
authorities Insanitary habitat area
found, no of interventions of the local public administration
authorities achieved 2. Ensuring appropriate legal
and methodological framework for improving the quality of housing conditions and for
developing disadvantaged
areas MRDPA
2015 S RON 135 780 MRDPA budget Rules drawn up in
accordance with the

Time-
limit Assess
ment
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-
annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with
the results
targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
National Housing
Strategy
2016 S No additional
allocations of funds are
required MRDPA budget Legislative acts
amended or drawn up according to the
needs identified
2016 S No additional
allocations of
funds are required MRDPA budget Law approve d Urban regeneration
projects implemented
pursuant to the law on integrated urban regeneration
2016 S RON 1 729 350 OPTA – EFRD
funds National Housing
Strategy drawn up
and approved Assessments, reports
related to the
monitoring of strategy implementation
3. Approving the 'Social Housing for Roma Communities’ pilot programme
by Government Decision No
1237/2008 MRDPA through
the NAH Q Q 2016 –
RON 60 275 000
2020 –
RON 71 935 000 State budget 300 housings 280 housings
4. Measures intended to social
inclusion and to mitigation of MRDPA –
MA ROP Time
limit
for A To be identified ESIF
2014-2020 Local development
integrated strategies Local development
integrated strategies

Time-
limit Assess
ment
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-
annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with
the results
targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
poverty in less favoured urban
population MEF – MA OP
Human Capital ROP
2015-
2020:
2015 selected (no) selected (no)
5. Amending legislation with
regard to systematic registration of properties (Law
No 7/1996, the Cadastre and
Real Estate Publicity Law) National Agency
for Cadastre and Real Estate
Publicity
(ANCPI) 2015 A Not applicable Not applicable Simplification of the
procedure for systematic
registration of
properties
6. Free of charge registration of
properties, including Roma’s, through the National Programme for the Cadastre and the Land Registry ANCPI 2020 A Not applicable ANCPI budget Free of charge
registration of properties 240 administrative units Free of charge
registration of properties in 1 210 administrative units
7. Developing the institutional capacity of local public
administration authorities with
a view to developing local action plans for Roma inclusion MRDPA, local
public
administration
authorities 2016 S To be identified 2014-2020
European funds Increased quality of
local action plans for
Roma inclusion
through correlation of the objectives established as a result of the
consultation with the
interested stakeholders, with the resources

Time-
limit Assess
ment
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-
annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with
the results
targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
available and with
the financing opportunities

E. Culture
Priority (1): Launching cultural projects for the safeguardi ng, development and promotion of the Roma cultural heritage

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Organising annual financing
sessions for ethnographical
research studies, publications,
video and multimedia projects intended for documentation and safeguarding the Roma identity, including the Romany language,
music and dance The Ministry of
Culture through the
AFCN
(Administration of the National Cultural Stock) and the NHI, the NAR
through the NCRC,
the MESR, the County Centres for the Promotion and Conservation of Traditional Culture S A RON 80 000 AFCN budget,
local budgets,
other resources Organising one annual
financing session per
year Organising one annual
financing session per
year
2. Setting up the Roma theatre The NAR through
the NCRC, the
Ministry of Culture
– methodological support A – Within the limit
of the budgets
approved for the
institutions in charge Enhancing the artistic talents of the Roma
population.
Education of the young generation
3. Setting up the museum of the
Roma The NAR through
the NCRC, the Ministry of Culture A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the Research, identification, purchase and
safeguarding of the Roma cultural heritage. Promotion and enhancement of the Roma

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
– methodological
support institutions in
charge cultural heritage in exhibition areas.
Education of the youth to tolerance.
4. Safeguarding, developing and promoting Roma traditional crafts – – – – Safeguarding, knowing, promoting and
developing traditional crafts of the Roma culture. Attracting and educating the youth to taking
over and continuing traditional crafts practiced
by the Roma ethnicity. Raising awareness on the importance to safeguard and develop the Roma traditional culture.
Promoting experience exchange between
participants. Ensuring a productive activity in Roma families. Stimulating talents among the Roma ethnicity. Selling created products.
4.1 Organising Roma traditional
craft fairs, Roma traditional art
gallery with demonstrative
workshops and commercial areas S A – Within the limit
of the budgets
approved for the
institutions in charge Organising one
fair/semester Organising one
fair/semester
4.2 Trainings/further trainings for
the Roma craftsmen with a view to modernising the working techniques and to developing the The Ministry of
Culture through its subordinated museums
(provision of
logistical support), County Centres for the Promotion and Conservation of
Traditional Culture,
the CC through their subordinated museums, the NAR through the NCRC, the MLFSPE
S A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the institutions in Organising one
training/semester Number of trainees per session – 20 Organising one
training/semester Number of trainees per session – 20

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
products charge
4.3 Organising Roma traditional
craft contests and exhibitions, awarding and exhibiting the best creations S A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the institutions in
charge Organising one
contest/semester Organising one
contest/semester
5. Research on the field and in
archives on Roma history and
culture Better knowledge of the history of the Roma
minority in Romania; promoting the critical
moments in the Roma history nationally and internationally; increasing the interest of children, students, youth and adults in studying the past of the Roma minority.
5.1 National research programme
on national and local archives with
a view to creating the heritage of a
National Centre for Documentation on the Roma S A Within the limit
of the budgets
approved for the
institutions in charge Achievement of 2
projects/year under the
programme Achievement of 2
projects/year under the
programme; setting up
the National Centre for Documentation on the Roma
5.2 National research programme
on the Roma communities (clans, crafts, customs and traditions,
dialects, etc.) MESR, National
Archives, the
Ministry of Culture through its subordinated museums, the CC
through their
subordinated museums, the NAR through the NCRC, the County Centres for the Promotion
and Conservation of
Traditional Culture S A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the
institutions in
charge Achievement of 2
projects/year Achievement of 2
projects/year
6. Promoting the Roma history, culture, identity symbols and personalities in society The Ministry of
Culture through the Administration of – – – – Better knowledge of Roma culture and identity
symbols; promoting the critical moments in the Roma history nationally and internationally;

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
increasing the interest of children, students,
youth and adults in studying the past of the Roma minority.
6.1 Drawing up and publishing in
big number series of volumes on Roma history and culture,
including folklore and literature
collections in Romany S A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the
institutions in
charge Publishing the first
book by 2016, in approximately 3 000
copies, increase in the
level of knowledge about Roma culture and identity symbols Publishing the second
book by 2020 in approximately 3 000
copies, increase in the
level of knowledge about Roma culture and identity symbols
6.2 Placing memorial plates on
Roma personalities and on events from the Roma history S A Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the
institutions in
charge Placing of one
memorial plate per year
Promoting the critical
moments in the Roma history nationally and internationally Placing of one
memorial plate per year
Promoting the critical
moments in the Roma history nationally and internationally
6.3 Public monuments on the
Roma history and culture One
every 2 years A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the
institutions in
charge Placing one public
monument by 2016 Increasing the interest
of children, students,
youth and adults in studying their own history Placing three public
monuments by 2020 Increasing the interest
of children, students,
youth and adults in studying their own history
6.4 Roma cultural programmes at
local level, in Roma communities the National
Cultural Stock and through specialised national museums,
the CC through
their subordinated museums, the County Centres for the Promotion and Conservation of
Traditional Culture
Q A – Within the limit
of the budgets Organising four
programmes/year Organising four
programmes/year

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
approved for the
institutions in charge
Awarding the title of Living Human Treasure to 2 Roma by
2016 Awarding the title of
Living Human Treasure to 4 Roma by
2020 7. Programmes for safeguarding
and developing the intangible heritage of the Romany culture:
award of the title of Living
Human Treasure and inclusion in the national repertoire The Ministry of
Culture, the NAR through the NCRC,
the CNSPCI of the
Ministry of Culture RON 10 000 MC Budget
Local Budgets, other sources
3 elements/year 3 elements/year
8. National programmes for
safeguarding and cultivating the Romany language in the Roma communities and in society in
general Knowledge and preservation of the Romany
language. Raising awareness of the importance of knowing and safeguarding the Romany
language.
8.1 Publications in Romany
(monthly magazine, books) The Ministry of
Culture through the National Heritage Institute and the
AFCN (financing
session), the NAR through the NCRC, the MESR, the County Centres for the Promotion and
Conservation of
Traditional Culture M A – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the institutions in
charge Issuing 2 publications
per year in 1 000
copies Issuing 2 publications
per year in 1 000
copies
9. Supportin g and promotin g Roma
artists and Roma or Roma-related
creations in all artistic areas (fine
arts, literature, cinema, theatre,
music, dance) The Ministry of
Culture (through provision of methodological – – – Within the limit
of the budgets approved for the institutions in Knowing and popularizing Roma artistic
talents. Stimulating and supporting Roma artists. Enhancing the artistic creation.

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
9.1 Excellence scholarships for
Roma artists S A 4 beneficiaries/year 4 beneficiaries/year
9.2 Creation camps S A Organising 2 camps,
with 15-25 beneficiaries/year Organising 2 camps,
with 15-25 beneficiaries/year
9.3 Contests with awards S A Awarding minimum 6
artists/year Awarding minimum 6
artists/year
9.4 Organising exhibitions of
Roma artists’ works S A Organising one
exhibition/year Organising one
exhibition/year
9.5 Publishing books of Roma
writers S A Publishing 2
books/year Publishing 2
books/year
9.6 Supporting financially and
promoting theatre shows of Roma
artists
9.7 Supporting financially and
promoting artistic films of Roma
artists or related to Roma
9.8 Supporting financially and
promoting music shows of Roma artists
9.9 Supporting financially and
promoting dance shows of Roma artists S A Organising 2
shows/year for each
field Organising 2
shows/year for each
field
9.10 Support for self-organisation
and infrastructure of the Roma artists support), Romanian
Institute for Culture, the NAR through the NCRC
S A charge
2 organizations/year 2 organizations/year

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
9.11 Promoting works of Roma
artists in other countries S A Organising 2
exhibitions/year Organising 2
exhibitions/year
9.12 Supporting financially and
promoting theatre, music and dance shows of Roma artists in other countries S A Organising 2
shows/year Organising 2
shows/year

Priority (2): Projects for promoting interculturality and Roma culture in the public space

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Developing and
implementing a national
permanent education
programme for Roma and non-Roma adults on themes related to the Roma, racism, stigma, identity, alterity, interculturality and
multiculturalism The Ministry of
Culture (provision
of methodological
support), the NAR through the NCRC, the MESR Ensuring permanent education of adults –
Strategy on adult education, self-education and
lifelong learning adapted to the current reality
of Roma communities.
Developing a national permanent education programme for Roma and non-Roma adults on themes related to the Roma, racism, stigma, identity, alterity, interculturality and
multiculturalism
1.1 Organising vocational
training courses/summer schools on the Romany language/Roma topics for officials working with and for the Roma minority in public administration, social
assistance, health, police,
education The Ministry of
Culture (methodological support), the NAR through the NCRC, the MESR S A – Within the limit of
the budgets approved for the institutions in charge Organising 2 training
activities/year Minimum 20 trainees/year Organising 2 training
activities/year Minimum 20 trainees/year
1.2 Partnership cooperation with
the Community Centres for
Permanent Education, at local
level, through the County
Centres for Culture and Arts, the
County Centres for the The NAR through
the NCRC, the County Centres for the Promotion and Conservation of
Culture , the CSI S A – Within the limit of
the budgets approved for the institutions in charge Developing the strategy on adult education,
self-education and lifelong learning adapted to the current reality of Roma communities

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
Promotion and Conservation of
Traditional Culture and the CSI,
with a view to developing a
strategy on adult education,
self-education and lifelong
learning adapted to the current
reality of Roma communities and
to setting up an office for the
development of the Roma
identity and of the tangible and
intangible Roma ethnological
and cultural heritage within each Community Centre for Permanent Education

F. Social infrastructure and services
(1) Child protection
Main objective:
Empowering the family for raising, ca ring and educating their own children.
Specific objectives:
1. Educating the teenagers and the parents to family values, to pa rental responsibilities and to the new vision on the protection of child rights in
the family.
2. Raising awareness of the population on the legal provisions concer ning the overriding responsibility of the parents for raising , caring and
educating their childre n, and the sanctions incurred in case of nonc ompliance with the parental obligations.
Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Promoting family values
through information and awareness raising campaigns MLFSPE-
Directorate for Child Protection, NGO A RON 34 408 000
* Within the limit of
the budgets approved for the institutions in charge; projects
funded through
grants At least one campaign
run Information and
awareness raising campaigns run in the communities
2. Developing units for preventing the separation of the child from the family and for ensuring development and education of the child within the
community, and training the CC-GDSACP,
Local Councils A A RON 880 000
** Within the limit of
the budgets approved for the institutions in charge; projects
funded through 107 day units
established, At least 500 children Increase by at least
50 % in the number of units for preventing the separation of the child from the family.
Increase by at least

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
related staff grants 30 % in the number of
Roma children who are
beneficiaries of day
services
3. Launching information and awareness raising campaigns
with a view to preventing abuse
and any form of violence against children, including by encouraging partnerships
between local public child
protection bodies and NGOs CC-GDSACP,
Local Councils,
NGOs A A RON 34 408 000 Within the limit of
the budgets
approved for the
institutions in charge; projects funded through grants At least 2 partnerships
concluded with a view
to implementing
projects where families
belonging to the Roma
minority should be a separate target group Ensuring the necessary
counselling services
for all the families at
risk of abuse, domestic violence, under projects carried out by local authorities in
partnership with NGOs
* The value of the project is EUR 200 000, of which 85 % is financed through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism
** The amount for the 107 units for preventing the separation of the child from the family and for training the related staff is E UR 13 631 000 and consists of:
EUR 7 800 000 borrowed from the CEB; EUR 1 800 .000 from the Gove rnment of Romania through the MLFSPE; EUR 4 011 000 from the l ocal authorities,
under the financing contracts concluded.
*** The estimated value of the project is EUR 200 000, of wh ich 85 % is financed through the European Social Fund

(2) Justice and public order
Objective: Continuing positive measures in the process of training staff for the bodies of the Romanian Police and of the Roman ian Gendarmerie
among Romanian citizens belonging to th e Roma minority, pursuant to law.
Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget** Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
Q – Quarterly
S – Semi-annually
A – Annually Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Continuing to allocate
separate places upon admission
to the initial vocational training
institutions of the MIA. MAI A A No additional
allocations from
the MIA are
required MIA budget Minimum 2 % of all
places allocated to the
candidates belonging
to the Roma minority Minimum 2 % of all
places allocated to the
candidates belonging
to the Roma minority
2**. Organizing campaigns for
the promotion and respect of
human rights and fundamental
freedoms NCFD A A RON 73 000 NCFD budget
Other internal
sources
External sources 1. One campaign per
year; 2. Number of petitions
filed*;
3. Number of petitions settled*; 4. Number of solutions consisting of acts of
discrimination* 1. One campaign per
year; 2. Number of petitions
filed*;
3. Number of petitions settled*; 4. Number of solutions consisting of acts of
discrimination*
3**. Running various
information programmes for
correct identification and settlement of discrimination
cases NCFD
A A RON 310 000 NCFD budget
Other internal
sources 1. 4 programmes run
per year; 2. 168 beneficiaries; 3. Number of petitions filed*; 1. 4 programmes run
per year; 2. 168 beneficiaries; 3. Number of petitions filed*;

* – indicators resulting from all three meas ures combined, without possibility to id entify and report separately, for each meas ure, a number of
petitions (filed, settled or settled as acts of discrimination). Consequently, reports shall refer to one number of petitions f iled, one number of
petitions settled and one number of peti tions settled as acts of discrimination, pursuant to GO No 137/2000, republished, updat ed.
** – Observations:
2. Organizing campaigns for the promotion and respect of huma n rights and fundamental freedoms – Concerning the NCFD budget, it shall be
integral part of the budget for the runn ing of the activities laid down in the National Strategy for the Im plementation of Prevention and
Discrimination Fighting Measures for 2015-2020 (unfinished yet).
3. Running various information programmes for correct identifica tion and settlement of discrimi nation cases – Concerning the NC FD budget, it
shall be integral part of the budget for the running of the activities laid down in the National Strategy for the Im plementation of Prevention and
Discrimination Fighting Measures for 2015-2020 (unfinished yet).
4. Launching and running legal, civic and pr evention educational programmes, in coopera tion with members of the Roma minority – Concerning
the NCFD budget, it shall be integr al part of the budget for the running of the activities laid down in the National Strategy for the
Implementation of Prevention and Disc rimination Fighting Measures for 2015-2020 (unfinished yet).
Moreover, efforts are made to attract external f unds in order to supplement the budget estimated by the National Strategy for the Implementation
of Prevention and Discrimination Fighting Measures for 2015-2020 (unfinished yet). External sources 4. Number of petitions
settled*; 5. Number of solutions
consisting of acts of
discrimination*. 4. Number of petitions
settled*; 5. Number of solutions
consisting of acts of
discrimination*.
4**. Launching and running
legal, civic and prevention
educational programmes, in cooperation with members of the Roma minority NCFD A A RON 305 000 NCFD budget
Other internal
sources
External sources 1. 4 programmes run
per year; 2. 168 beneficiaries; 3. Number of petitions filed*;
4. Number of petitions
settled*; 5. Number of solutions consisting of acts of discrimination*. 1. 4 programmes run
per year; 2. 168 beneficiaries; 3. Number of petitions filed*;
4. Number of petitions
settled*; 5. Number of solutions consisting of acts of discrimination*.

(3) Community administration and development
Objectives:
– Continuing the process of identif ying people without civil status certificates and without iden tification documents with a view to register their
civil status-related documents and facts in the personal records, as well as the pro cess of issuing civil status certificates a nd identification
documents.
– Stimulating the involvement of non-government al organisations and of th e partners belonging to the Roma minority in the
Local Initiative Groups with a view to approaching specific issues.

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
A – Annually
P – Permanently Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
1. Intensifying the activities for
identifying the difficulties of the
Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma minority related to the registration in the personal records, and to the issuance of the civil status certificates and
of other identity documents MIA M

A M

A No additional
allocations from
MIA are required. MIA budget 10 information
campaigns and
guidance and methodological control actions at the Public Community Services of Personal Records 10 information
campaigns and
guidance and methodological control actions at the Public Community Services of Personal Records
2. Assessing the activity of the
County Offices for Roma, of NAR Regional Offices and o
f
the local experts for Roma
issues who work at town halls NAR
MIA P A No additional
allocations from MIA-NAR are required. NAR budget
MIA budget Assessment reports
drawn up Assessment reports
drawn up

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
A – Annually
P – Permanently Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
with a focus on involving them
in the implementation of the measures included in the Government Strategy.
3. Running information campaigns on the right of free movement within the European Union NAR A A RON 24 000 NAR budget Setting up a social
dialogue group at local level, whose purpose is to inform on the right of free movement within the EU
(composition: informal
leaders, NGOs, representatives of the LIG, LPA, IJP, NAE, COR; NCFD; local
bodies)
– 8 annual campaigns – 1 000 people informed 48 campaigns
– 5 000 people informed
4. Launching a process of social dialogue and specific interventions through activities
carried out by community
institutions and civil society organizations, especially in NAR P A No additional
allocations from NAR are required. NAR budget 40 meetings of the
COR and regional bodies, with the
participation of the
NGOs Launching a

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
A – Annually
P – Permanently Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
interethnic communities. consultative
mechanism at regional level, made up of decentralised public
services (county level)
and active NGOs (local level); – drawing up of 8 regional intervention plans
5. Organising information
campaigns with a view to
obtaining ownership/possession titles, in accordance with the procedure regulated by Law 7/1996, as amended and supplemented. NAR A A RON 48 000 National budget 16 campaigns 48 campaigns
6. Continuing to stimulate the
involvement of the NGOs and of
the partners belonging to the
national minorities (including Roma) in the LIG MARD – MA
NRDP 31
Decemb
er 2015 A Measures 1), 2)
and 3) will be
financed, together
with the other projects under
LEADER* fromEAFRD + National budget 10
NGOs and partners
belonging to the Roma
minority in LIGs 30
NGOs and partners
belonging to the Roma
minority in LIGs

Time-
limit Assessm
ent
period Budget Results
Measures Institutions in
charge M – Monthly
A – Annually
P – Permanently Estimate costs
until 2016,
calculated in
relation with the
results targeted Financing
sources 2016 2020
7. Stimulating the submission by
the organisations in the LIGs of projects approaching the topic of national minorities (including
the Roma minority) under
LEADER MARD – MA
NRDP LIG 31
December 2016 31
Decemb
er 2020 A EAFRD +
National budget 5 projects approaching
the topic of the Roma minority under LEADER 15 projects
approaching the topic of the Roma minority under LEADER
8. Running the process of LEADER animation and promotion addressing to all the
local communities, potential
LIG territories (including territories highly populated with Romanian citizens belonging to the national minorities, including the Roma minority) LIG P A EAFRD
+ National budget 10 actions of LEADER
animation and promotion addressing
to all the local
communities, potential LIG territories highly populated with Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma
minority 30 actions of LEADER
animation and promotion addressing
to all the local
communities, potential LIG territories highly populated with Romanian citizens belonging to the Roma
minority
* According to the proposal of Regulation of the European Parlia ment and of the Council on support for rural development by the EAFRD, at least 5 % of the
whole EAFRD contribution to the rural deve lopment programme is reserved for LEADER.

Annex 3 – Types of performance indicato rs for the priorities of the Strategy
A. Education
Measure 1: Developing a data collection and monitoring system concerning the inclusion of pr e-school (3-6 years) a nd school (7-16 years) age
children within a form of education. The sy stem shall be driven (until 2016) in mini mum 200 schools where the share of Roma stu dents is
minimum 25 %.
The main indicator for this measure is the ' Number of schools where the share of Roma st udents is minimum 25 % where a data collection and
monitoring system concerning the inclusion of pre-school (3-6 years) and school (7-16 yea rs) age children within a form of educ ation has been
implemented’ . In order to conclude on the implementa tion of a data collection and monitoring syst em as the one mentioned above in a school,
the following data need to be centra lised periodically for that school:
Name and address of school:

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Is this information
centralised at the level of
the school? 1- YES, 2- NO
1) No of students in the system as of 1 October/28 February/14 September
2) No of Roma students in the system as of 1 October/28 February/14 September
3) No of Roma students who have entered the system between 2 October and 28 February
4) No of Roma students who have left the sy stem between 2 October and 28 February
5) No of Roma students who have entered the system between 1 March and 10 June
6) No of Roma students who have left th e system between 1 March and 10 June
7) No of pre-school Roma child ren being taught in Romany
8) No of Roma students in preparatory grade, specif ying the teaching language
9) No of Roma students studying fully in the Romany language
10) No of Roma students stu dying 4 hours/week of Romany language (grades 1 to 13)
11) No of Roma students studying 1 hour/week of Ro ma history and traditions in grades 6 and 7
12) No of Roma students in the SAS pr ogramme and financial support type
13) No of Roma and non-Roma children in each locality newl y recorded by the social as sistant of the town hall
and by the school and health mediators, including m onthly reporting within the ELWG (Educational Local

Working Group)
14) No of Roma children enrolled at kindergarten/preparatory grade/1st grade between February to 14 September
Measure 2. Extending, running, monitoring and giving me dia coverage to the set of support programmes intended to stimulate school
participation, decrease in ill iteracy, absenteeism and drop-out, obtaining school success in sec ondary and tertiary education.
Main indicators
(1) No of Roma children havi ng ages corresponding to the primary and lower secondary levels wh o have been counselled and supported
to enrol and actually attend school between February – 14 September with a vi ew to resuming school in the mass system.
(2) No of Roma children having ante-preschool and pre-school ages who have been counselled and supported to enrol and actually
attend kindergarten between February – 14 September with a view to resuming school in the mass system.
(3) No of Roma children of primary school level < of the total number of students in each e ducational establishment who have benefited of
the ASC Programme (with local or other support ), semi-annual reporting;
(4) No of Roma children of lower secondary school level < of the total number of students in each educational esta blishment who have
benefited of the ASC Programme (with local or other support ), semi-annual reporting;
(5) No of Roma children of primary school level < of the total number of students in each e ducational establishment who have benefited of
the SAS Programme (with local or other support ), semi-annual reporting;
(6) No of Roma children of lower secondary school level < of the total number of students in each educational esta blishment who have
benefited of the SAS Programme (with local or other support ), semi-annual reporting;
(7) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority having b een taught to read and writ e (reporting on 20 September);
(8) No of Roma students of the rural envir onment who have benefited of free of ch arge transport from home to school;
(9) No of Roma children at risk of drop-out whose families have benefited of support for increasing the opportunities of employment on the
labour market (informati on, mediation, training);
(10) No of schools where the share of Roma students is mi nimum 25 % that have been refurbished and equipped;
(11) No of Roma students at risk of drop-out who have benefited of support with a view to improving the social and economic situatio n with
regard to aspects that block e ducational inclusion (food, clothes, housing condition s, health status, etc.). This indicator sha ll be calculated
on the basis of sub-indicators as follows: a. No of Roma students < of the total no of students in each educational establishment who have accessed the 'Money for High schoo l’
Programme, with reporting be tween 15 and 20 September

b. No of Roma students < of the total no of students in each educational establishment who have obtained soci al scholarship, with
reporting between 15 and 20 September
c. No of Roma students < of the total no of st udents in each educational establishment w ho benefit of other t ypes of financial and
material support/scholarships in the 1st semester with reporting on 1 March.
d. No of Roma students < of the total no of st udents in each educational establishment w ho benefit of other t ypes of financial and
material support/scholarships in the 2nd semester with reporting on 15 June.
e. No of Roma students < of the total no of students in each educational establishment who have benefited of the programmes: Euro 200
(purchase of computer)/'Crescent and milk’
Optional indicators
(1) No of parental education programmes run
(2) No of summer kindergarten groups organised at local level, w ith reporting on 14 September.
(3) No of kindergarten groups/classes with teaching in Romany as mother tongue, with reporting between February – October
(4) No of parents/people with parental responsibility informed (Q reporting)
(5) No of new classes set up by year
(6) No of new lines of study set up
(7) No of high schools with teaching in Romany (grades 1 to 12) set up by 2020
(8) No of departments set up by 2010

Measure 3: Harmonizing and supplementing th e quality assurance system, with focus on the management of inclusive education
adapted to the Roma specificity.
Indicators:
(1) No of Roma students recording scho ol progress measured quarterly
(2) Inclusion of the following elements among the standards for asse ssing the schools containing minimu m 25 % of Roma students/the
teaching staff/the school masters:
(3) No of skilled Roma teachers (kindergarten, primary school, seconda ry school, school masters, etc.) in kindergartens and in scho ols;
(4) No of students studying in Romany as moth er tongue / of hours in Romany as mother tongue at kinderga rten, preparatory grade and
grades 1 to 12;
(5) No of students studying Roma history and traditions, as well as music in Romany;

(6) The presence of the school mediator empl oyed (in educational establishments containi ng minimum 25 % of Roma children and studen ts,
whose identity is assumed or not);
(7) No of activities and settled cases reflec ting acknowledgement/applic ation/respect of Roma customs by teaching and auxiliary sta ff (in
schools and in Roma communities).
(8) Proportionality in reflecting the ethnical composition of the locality/educational es tablishment/class/group in the school area (including at
the level of the illustrative material used and exhibited).
(9) No of paragraphs/passages amended/adde d in line with the requirements made
(10) No of teachers trained in educat ional romanipen in each county;
(11) No of trainers in educationa l romanipen trained by the MNE;

Measure 4. Continuing measures to prevent segregation of Roma ch ildren and students and to remove potential segregations occurr ed
in the educational system.
(1) No of paragraphs/passages amended/adde d in line with the requirements made
(2) No of prevention plans for school segregation drawn up
(3) No of groups/classes/schools wher e segregation prevention was implem ented between February-September

Measure 5. Restructuring initial university tr aining of teachers, taking into account the compliance wi th the principles of inc lusive
school, of knowledge and implemen tation of Roma history and culture elements ac quired during their initia l training under the t eacher
training module with a view to certifying competencies for the teaching profession – according to the methodology of accredited higher
education establishments and in compliance with the provisions of the framework methodology.
(1) No of university modules/courses on the promotion of diversity, desiderata of inclusive school and educational romanipen

Measure 6. Equipping the libraries in TSRCs and educational establ ishments (having minimum 25 % of Roma students) with material s
in the field of Roma language, history and culture, including the organisation of virt ual sections of libraries containing pape rs in pdf
format.

(1) No of existent/accessible volumes in this type of libraries;
Measure 7. Continuing positive measures for training and employing Roma human resources in the educational system, who should
have permanent, direct and effective access to and support for th e Roma communities, who should be aware of the real needs and the
real solutions inner to the Roma issues.
(1) No of inspectors employed on a full-time basis
(2) No of new school mediators trained pe r year by the MESR and its partners
(3) No of new school mediators employed
(4) No of persons annually tr ained at the intensive co urse of Romany language
(5) No of Roma youth accepted annually on distinct places in high schools (reporting on 20 September)
(6) No of Roma youth accepted annually on distinct places allocated to universities (reporting on 20 October)

Measure 8. Monitoring the activity of the CSIs and of the local support groups/commi ttees in order to improve the access of
disadvantaged groups to education.
(1) Documents issued
(2) No of Roma people co-opted in programmes
(3) No of paragraphs/articles inserted
(4) No of statutory LWGs and CWG set up
(5) No of proposals submitted
(6) No of documents submitted

Measure 9. Information/dissemination with re gard to segregation/desegregation, non-dis criminatory access to education, preventi ng
school absenteeism and school drop-out , equal opportunities, removal of abuse, protection of disadvantaged children.
(1) No of documents issued and disseminated
(2) No of newsletters issue a nd posted on MESR site
(3) No of campaigns run
(4) No of programmes launched in educational establishments

B. Employment
(1) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority who have accessed active measures.
(2) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority informed and counselled.
(3) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority mediated, employed as a result of mediation.
(4) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority who bene fited of the measure: Stim ulation of labour force mobility through employment
or installation bonuses, as appropriate.
(5) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority trained in trades/qualifications in demand on the labour market.
(6) No of persons belonging to the Roma minority assesse d and certified in compet ences acquired informally.
(7) No of people as beneficiaries of the measure: granting of subsidies for employers in case of employment of people belonging to
disadvantaged categories or having more difficulties to access the labour market.
(8) No of people as beneficiaries of the meas ure: granting of personalised support for youth at risk of social marginalisation thro ugh
conclusion of solidarity contracts and provi sion of specific services, including provisi on of subsidies to insertion employers who employ
people from this category.

C. Health
Indicators for the sp ecific objectives:
1: Improving the access of citizens be longing to the Roma minority to integrated and high quality, ba sic, preventive and curative health services;
(1) % of the rural population covered by commun ity services, broken-down by county/region; pr egnant women/children below 5 years of
age; Roma beneficiaries
(2) No of AMC and MSR62 employed
(3) No of Roma beneficiaries/year
(4) No of community centres restored/built
(5) No (%) of rural communities covered by Roma commun ity nurses (from the total community with AMC)
(6) Primary and secondary legisla tion approved by the government
(7) Compliance with standards (% of community service providers reporting pursu ant to the standards)
(8) Percentage of basic community service pr oviders trained (from all the employed)
(9) Assessment reports for the integrated community assistance (2016, 2018, 2020)

2: Mitigating risks and preventing diseases related to the mortality and morbidity patterns prevailing among the Roma population
(1) No (%) of people belonging to the Roma minority as health insured of the to tal no of insured/county
(2) No (%) of people belonging to the Roma minority having paid minimum 1 visit to the family physician per year63
(3) No (%) of Roma people uninsured benefiting of health services64
(4) No (%) of people belonging to the Roma minority informed (indicator broken-down by counties, types of communities/groups)
(5) Percentage of vaccine coverage for children (according to the JAF65). No (%) of Roma mothers informed on vaccination campaigns
(6) No of Roma patients with HBP, DM, COPD66, monitored in primary medical assistance (AMP) according to the practical guidelines

62 AMC (community nurses), MSR (Roma health mediators)
63 To be collected through the community se rvice providers and the family physicians
64 Idem 3, 4
65 Joint Assessment Framework, is an assessment system based on indicators developed by the European Commission within the context of 2020 Europe Strategy.
66 HBP (hyper blood pressure); DM (diabetes mellitus); COPD (chronical obstructive pulmonary diseases)

(7) No (%) of Roma people benefiting from program mes for the prevention of transmissible diseases. Annual report on priority transm issible
diseases
(8) No (%) of Roma people benefiting of programme s for the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.
(9) No (%) Roma women benefiting of family planning services/year

3: Increasing the instituti onal capacity of local public authorities in the pro cess of establishing health -related needs, of deve loping and
implementing health-related programmes/interventions intended fo r the Roma communities, and of their monitoring and assessment
(1) No of personnel working in the bodies of the CC/LPA 67 who are trained in health policies based on examples of success, in public health
and in the organisation of the health service system
(2) No of vulnerable people per inte grated community service provider
(3) No (%) of local, county and regional plan s drawn up according to the MH standard
(4) National research reports on Roma health (2016, 2018, 2020)

4: Preventing the discrimination of the citizens belonging to the Roma minority who access health services
(1) No (%) of medical education institutions cont aining training courses in their curriculum
(2) No of trainees per year
(3) No (%) of beneficiaries informed/counselled
(4) No of discrimination cases notified/analysed/solved
(5) No of cases treated by year /No of cases reported
(6) Annual monitoring and assessment reports
(7) No of cases analysed by the Coll ege of Physicians, report ed annually in e ach county by observers incl uded in the Ethics Committ ees of
county subsidiaries of the College of Physicians

D. Housing and small infrastructure
(1) No of new housings for persons belonging to the Roma minority facing poverty and exclusion risks;

67 The training shall include principles/practices of non-discrimination and respect of human rights

(2) No of restored housings for pers ons belonging to the Roma minority facing poverty and exclusion risks;
(3) No of households owned by Roma citizen s benefiting of access to utilities;
(4) No of programmes for financing measures intended for social inclusion of disadvantaged comm unities (including the Roma populati on).

E. Culture
Priority (1): Launching cultural projects for the safeguardi ng, development and promotion of the Roma cultural heritage
Measure 1. Organising annual financing sessions for ethnographical res earch studies, publications, vi deo and multimedia projects
intended for documentation and safeguarding the Roma id entity, including the Romany language, music and dance
Indicators: The number of financing sessions orga nised for ethnographical research studi es, publications, video and multimedia
projects intended for documentation and safeguarding the Ro ma identity, including the Romany language, music and dance.
Measure 4. Safeguarding, developing and pr omoting Roma traditional crafts:
4.1 Organising Roma traditional craft fairs, Roma traditional art gallery with demonstrative workshops and commercial
areas
Indicators: Number of Roma traditi onal craft fairs organised.
4.2 Trainings/further trainings for the Roma craftsmen with a view to modernising the working techniques and to
developing the products
Indicators: Number of trainings/further trainings organised for the Roma craftsmen, as well as the number of trainees.
4.3 Organising Roma traditional craft contests and exhibi tions, awarding and exhibiting the best creations
Indicators: Number of Roma traditiona l craft contests organised.
Measure 5. Research on the field and in archives on Roma history and culture
5.1 National research programme on national and local archives wi th a view to creating the h eritage of a National Centre
for Documentation on the Roma
Indicators: Number of projects under the National research programme on national and lo cal archives with a view to creating the
heritage of a National Centre for Documentation on the Roma.
5.2 National research programme on the Roma communities (c lans, crafts, customs and traditions, dialects, etc.)
Indicators: Number of projects under the National research program me on the Roma communities (clans, crafts, customs and
traditions, dialects, etc.).

Measure 6. Promoting the Roma history, culture, iden tity symbols and personalities in society
6.1 Drawing up and publishing in big number series of volumes on Roma history and culture, including folklore and
literature collections in Romany
Indicators: Number of volumes on Roma history a nd culture published, and the print-run.
6.2 Placing memorial plates on Roma personalities and on events from the Roma history
Indicators: Number of memorial plates on Ro ma personalities and on events from the Roma history placed.
6.3 Public monuments on the Roma history and culture
Indicators: Number of public monuments on th e Roma history and culture placed
6.4 Roma cultural programmes at local level, in Roma communities
Indicators: Number of Roma cultural programmes organise d at local level, in Roma communities.
Measure 7. Programmes for safeguarding and developing the intangible heritage of the Romany culture: award of the title of
Living Human Treasure and inclusion in the national repertoire
Indicators: Number of Roma who we re awarded the title of Living Human Treasure;
Number of elements of Roma intangible cultural heritage included in the national repertoire.
Measure 8. Programmes for safeguarding and developing the intangible heritage of the Romany culture: award of the title of
Living Human Treasure and inclusion in the national repertoire
8.1 Publications in Romany (monthly magazine, books)
Indicators: Number of publications in Romany for cultivating the Romany language in Roma communities and in society in
general, and their print-run.
Measure 9. Supporting and promoting Roma artists and Roma creations in al l artistic areas (fine arts, literature, cinema, theatre,
music, dance)
9.1 Excellence scholarships for Roma artists
Indicators: Number of beneficiaries of excellence scholarships.
9.2 Creation camps
Indicators: Number of creation camps organi sed and number of beneficiaries.

9.3 Contests with awards
Indicators: Number of artists awarded annually.
9.4 Organising exhibitions of Roma artists’ works
Indicators: Number of exhibitions organised per year for Roma artists’ works.
9.5 Publishing books of Roma writers
Indicators: Number of books of Ro ma writers published.
9.6 Supporting financially and promoting theatre shows of Roma artists
9.7 Supporting financially and promoting artistic films of Roma artists or related to Roma
9.8 Supporting financially and promoting dance shows of Roma artists 9.9 Supporting financially and promoting music shows of Roma artists
Indicators: Number of theatre shows, artistic fi lms, music and dance shows of Roma ar tists or related to Roma achieved.
9.10 Support for self-organisation and in frastructure of the Roma artists
Indicators: Number of Roma artist organisations having received support for self -organisation and infrastructure.
9.11 Promoting works of Roma artists in other countries
Indicators: Number of exhibitions of Roma ar tists organised in other countries.
9.12 Supporting financially and promoting thea tre, artistic films, mu sic and dance shows of Roma artists in other
countries
Indicators: Number of theatre, artistic films, music and dance shows of Roma artists or related to Roma in other countries.
Priority (2): Other cultural and artistic activities promoting Ro ma values, culture and traditions

Measure 1. Developing and implementing a nation al permanent education programme for Ro ma and non-Roma adults on themes
related to the Roma, racism, stigma, identity, alterity, interculturality and multiculturalism
1.1 Organising vocational training courses/ summer schools on the Romany language /Roma topics for officials working
with and for the Roma minority in public administration, social assi stance, health, police, education
Indicators: Multiculturalism: Number of vocational training cour ses/summer schools on the Roma ny language/Roma topics for
officials working with and for the Roma minority in public administration, social assistance, health, police, education.

F. Social infrastructure and services
1. Child protection
(1) No of campaigns for promoting family values.
(2) No of day services set up.
(3) No of children benefiting of day services.
(4) No NGOs involved in the campaign for pr eventing abuse and neglect, as well as any type of violence against children.

2. Justice and public order
MIA measures
(1) No of separate places for Romanian citizens belonging to the Ro ma minority in the vocational tr aining institutions of the Minis try of
Internal Affairs.
NCFD measures

Quantitative indicators:
(1) For measure 1) No of campaigns run;
(2) For measure 2) No of programmes run, No of beneficiaries ;
(3) For measure 3) No of programmes run, No of beneficiaries ;
(4) For all three measures together number of petitions settled;
(5) For all three measures together number of solutions consisti ng of acts of discrimination, in accordance with GO No 137/2000 republished,
updated.

Qualitative indicators (measure %):
(6) Increase in the number of Roma -related petitions registered;
(7) Increase in the number of settlements.

(8) Public administration and community development

Indicators for MIA measures
(1) Number of information campaigns and guidan ce and methodological control act ions at the Public Commun ity Services of Personal Re cords.

Indicators for NAR measures
(1) No of regional/county/local information campaigns on the right of free movement within the European Union;
(2) No of regional/county/local information campaigns with a view to obtaining ownership/possess ion titles organised per year;
(3) No of persons informed on the right of fr ee movement within the European Union;
(4) No of meetings organise d at regional/county level;
(5) No of regional response plans drawn up.

Indicators for MARD measures
(1) No of nongovernmental organisations and pa rtners belonging to the Roma minority in the Local Initia tive Groups (LIGs);
(2) No of projects approaching the Roma minority topic under LEADER;
(3) No actions of LEADER animation and promotion addressing to al l the local communities, potentia l LIG territories highly populate d with
Romanian citizens belongi ng to the Roma minority.