Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
The Roma ethnic minority in Poland
and Polish Government policy towards
the Roma
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
AGENDA
1. Situation of Roma community in Poland
2. Actions undertaken by the Polish Government
relating to Roma
2.1. Programme for the Roma community in Poland
2.2. 'Roma component' HR OP
3. Team for the Roma Affairs
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
Number of Roma population in Poland
- 12 731 declared Roma minority
membership
- 15 657 declared use of Roma
language at home
(Source: National Census, 2002)
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
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Pilot government programme
for the Roma community in
Małopolska Voivodship for the
years 2001-2003
Act on national and ethnic
minorities and on a regional
language (2005)
Programme for the Roma
community in Poland (20042013)
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
Programme for the Roma community
in Poland
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2.5 million EURO (reserve of the State’s budget)
150 thousand EURO (budget of the Ministry of
National Education )
100 thousand EURO (budget of the Ministry of
Interior and Administration)
2001-2010 → 17 million EURO
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
Programme for the Roma community
in period 2004-2010
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Number of
actions
298
399
427
534
620
630
705
Number of LG
bodies and NGO
109
184
149
184
207
174
178
6
5,8
5,9
10,9
10,9
10,9
11
Amount of funds
(in milion PLN)
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
8 areas of Programme for the Roma
community in Poland
1. education,
2. improvement of living and social conditions,
3. health,
4. prevention of unemployment,
5. safety,
6. culture,
7. increasing public awareness of the Roma
community,
8. civic education of the Roma.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
1. EDUCATION
*Roma education assistants and learning support
teachers,
*educational programmes for the Roma parents
and children including psychological and
pedagogical consultancy,
*catch-up classes in various subjects,
*speech and language (pathology) therapy
classes,
*holiday camps & trips,
*material help,
*community centres,
* scholarships for students and pupils.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
2. IMPROVEMENT OF LIVING
AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
* renovation of properties (flats),
* building & buying houses,
* providing connection to sewage
and water supply systems.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
3. HEALTH
* employment of community nurses,
* providing health checks and protective vaccinations,
* organisation of the so-called “white days”.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
4. PREVENTION OF
UNEMPLOYMENT
* establishing new workplaces,
*subsidising workplaces for the
Roma,
* intervention work,
* training.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
6. CULTURE
AND
7. PROMOTING PUBLIC
AWARENESS OF THE ROMA
COMMUNITY
*festivals,
*publication of a magazine
partly issued in the Roma
language,
*book publications,
*theatre performance, etc.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
PUBLICATIONS
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
8. CIVIC EDUCATION OF THE ROMA
*Citizens Advice Centres,
*technical support for the Roma NGO,
*arrangement of consultation meetings etc.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
Team for the Roma Affairs
* established in 2008
* representatives of the government
administration and twenty-two
Roma representatives
* 2008-2010 → 11 meetings
* TOPICS → funding of actions
for the Roma (the
Programme, “Roma
component”), education of the
Roma children and youths,
discrimination in public live,
etc.
Ministry of Interior and Administration
Department for Denominations
and National and Ethnic Minorities
Thank you for your attention
Andrzej Marciniak
Deputy Director
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