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.
