Supporting access to employment for Roma (NEW UPDATE)
Participation in the labour market is an important condition for a successful integration process. Access to employment is for the members of the Roma community is often not self-evident. With the programme ‘Fight against Discrimination’, 13 Spanish regions and more than 40 city councils support the access to the labour market for the, namely unemployed and unskilled young, Roma.
The project provides this support through work placements and developing human resources to accomplish equal opportunities for the entire Roma community.
Adapting vocational training and establishing direct links
The project focuses on the development of grassroots interventions, actions to facilitate the insertion of participants into the labour market and the promotion of pro-active policies for the Roma. In concrete terms this means adapting vocational training to the demands of the labour market and establishing direct links between Roma workers, employers and the Government by promoting a partnership network with administrations and companies.
Already significant result; the importance of equal opportunities
The project, which is funded with the support of the European Union, has shown the importance of equal opportunities and improved the standard of living of thousands of Spanish Roma. Since the start of the program in the year 2007 until 2009, significant results have been achieved:
- 12.290 employment contracts were obtained by a total of 6.680 persons through the programme;
- From these 6.680 persons were 4.746 people of the Roma community;
- Aditionally, for the first period of the programme's
existence, it reached a total of 50.984 uders and achieved 35.742
contracts, with 35.337 persons in personalised labour insertion
pathways and 10.966 persons trained or in professional training.