Inclusive EduJobs “Towards Context Relevant Policies and Services Enhancing Employability and Educational Outcomes of Roma and Egyptians in Albania”

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.