Inclusive EduJobs “Towards Context Relevant Policies and Services Enhancing Employability and Educational Outcomes of Roma and Egyptians in Albania”
Open Society Foundation for Albania in consortium with Social Action and
Innovation Centre (KMOP) and Municipality of Tirana
Beneficiaries: Roma and Egyptians in Tirana, in Shushica (Elbasan), Shkodra, Elbasan and Vlora
01.06.2022-31.05.2025
Overall Objective
The overall objective of this project is to improve the inclusion of women and
men, boys and girls from Roma and Egyptian communities in Albania by
strengthening municipal capacities to establish and deliver inclusive services
to citizens in the area of employment and inclusive education.
Summary of the Project
Inclusive EduJobs will promote employment and self-employment models in
a participatory way, involving municipalities, primarily Roma and Egyptian
CSOs as well as other CSOs and ensuring the necessary link to the existing
government programs that support self-employment/employment.
The project aims to increase school enrolment and attendance rates, prevent
drop-out and functional illiteracy of Roma and Egyptian children, including
mitigate the negative effects of COVID-19 by increasing access to
online/blended education and scholarship programs for compulsory education
in 4 municipalities. A new type of scholarships will be designed and piloted,
which incentivizes both attendance and academic achievement of Roma and
Egyptian students.
The project will directly contribute at strengthening municipal capacities to
establish and deliver inclusive services to Roma and Egyptian citizens in the
area of employment and inclusive education, by fostering self-
employment/employments schemes, social businesses and online education
access and scholarships for Roma and Egyptian children/students at the local
level. It will strengthen the capacity of 4 municipalities to manage local
development plans developed with a lens of equity (inclusive of Roma and
Egyptian), in line with IPA III programming, by means of applying a
learning-by-doing approach. It will also strengthen the civic engagement of
Roma and Egyptian CSOs to participate and shape policy dialogue at local
and central level. This project will issue subgrants to municipalities and CSOs
focusing on employment and education of Roma and Egyptian.
Activities
Community Action Planning in Tirana (4 consultation meetings and 1
final forum) for designing the sub granting packages in the area of
employment and inclusive education;
piloting and testing of 6 employment and education models in the first
phase in the Municipality of Tirana;
Replication of the 6 models in the municipalities of Shkodra, Vlora
and Elbasan;
blueprints describing the employment and education project models;
Capacity building trainings for Municipalities, R/E CSOs and
government agencies;
The creation of the Constructive Engagement Platform as result a
participatory action-planning, involving both private and public
bodies.
Expected Results
Improved labour market access and educational inclusion and
enhanced workers’ rights and women’s rights of the Roma/Egyptian
minorities through context-relevant employment, self-employment,
and inclusive education models, designed in a participatory way by
directly involving R/E lead CSOs, relevant government agencies. and
the municipalities.
2. Improved educational inclusion and educational achievements of
Roma/Egyptian children by means of new educational approach and
targeted financial support.
3. Strengthened municipalities’ capacities and enhanced public-private
partnerships for the management of all pilot models and utilizing
effectively existing state funding.
4. Enhanced participation of R/E CSOs in strategic advocacy, planning
and implementation of local interventions that are relevant to their
communities.
5. Enhanced collaboration between the municipalities and the local
CSOs/social businesses in support of R/E inclusion.
