Legal inclusion and sustainable integration of Roma in Croatia

Information Legal Centre is implementing the project “Legal inclusion and sustainable integration of Roma in Croatia” financed by the National Programme for Croatia under the IPA 2012 - Building Capacities of CSOs for Ensuring Effective Implementation of the EU Standards in the Enforcement of Human Rights. The project partners are Croatian Institute for Local Government, Brod-Posavina County and Network of Roma CSOs in Croatia.

The project’s objective is to facilitate access to free legal aid to Roma population in 6 counties, to strengthen Roma civil society organizations and Councils for National Minorities in Brod-Posavina County and to design & promote new mechanisms for monitoring Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities and local action plans.

Activities within the project include implementation of a legal service aiming to improve the provision of free legal aid to Roma, community meetings in Roma settlements, development of a brochure promoting free legal assistance to access documentation, active participation in WeBLAN cross-border cooperation with regional partners providing free legal aid in the region, capacity building of Roma civil society organizations and councils for national minorities in Brod-Posavina County, creation of local Action Plan for Roma, analysis of the implementation of the Constitutional Law on the Rights of National Minorities in Brod-Posavina County and organization of the round table as the final event.

The target groups are Roma population in six counties; government authorities, specifically civil servants and public service providers responsible for conducting birth registration, residence registration, and facilitating access to citizenship; Roma CSOs; members of councils of national minorities and citizens of all ages and sex as the final beneficiaries.

The project is being implemented in the following six counties: Brod-Posavina County, Osijek-Baranja County, Vukovar-Srijem County, Istra County, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, and Zagreb County.