Conclusions and recommendations

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3 CONCLUS IONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Based on the evaluations and reports analysed, this chapter summarises the

lessons that can be drawn at three levels. Firstly at the level of public policies:

how Roma inclusion policies could benefit from the combined findings of the

evaluations. Secondly at the level of interventions: what lessons we can learn for

the implementation inclusion measures. Thirdly at the level of evaluations: how

enhance their quality, to become more robust and support the policy and

implementation processes. The content of this chapter is based on the findings of

the evaluations described in previous chapter and on the individual assessment of

the experts when looking at the evaluations as well as on their own experience.

3. 1 LE SS ONS F OR PU BLI C POL IC IES

PUB LI C EN GA GE ME NT A ND S UP PO RT 3.1.1

An inclusive legislative and institutional framework could facilitate the

consistency of programme, projec ts and policies and their sustaina bility. The

potential for sustainable and long-te rm outcomes depends on a logical set-up and

accommodating interventions within a relevant legal and policy framework and

building on support ( political and financial) of loc al and national authorities. Being

supported by international legal and policy f rameworks related to improving rights

of Roma (e.g. UN, CoE, OSCE and the EU with its Framework for National Roma

Integration Strategies) is key to enhancin g the effectiveness of interventions

aiming at closing existing gaps between Roma and non-Roma in education,

employment, housing, financial inclusion, social networks and health.

Political support , including high-ranki ng politicians to the interventions that are

working at national and local level is needed, so that they can continue in the

long-term, to allow them to realise their full potential and deliver sustainable

results. This political support implies avoiding fluctuation in the interventions,

adequate financial support for their continuity a nd sufficient human and economic

resources (e.g. adequately trained staff working in a non-patronizing manner,

adequate working conditions, permanent working structu res, light bureaucracy and

administrative burdens). Public policies targeting Roma inclusion should be visibly

backed by national and local political leadership and be strongly embedded and

linked with relevant national legal and policy frameworks, receiving adequate

political and financial support.

INT EG RA TE D AP PR OA CH 3.1.2

The challenges facing Roma people, who we re born to intergenerational poverty,

cannot be addressed on an individual, one-sector basis. When there is this higher

risk of exclusion, it is recommendable to support the integrated approa ch of

Roma interventions working in several fields. The exclusion of the in habitants of

socially disadvantaged areas is multidimensional. Therefore transversal cross-

sectoral inte gration strategies, policy instruments, programmes and projects

should be developed accordingly. If thi s is not possible, each intervention would be

reinforced if adopted in a coherent and comprehensive manner targeting at least