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Registration: Conference & ERGO Network’s 10 Years Anniversary Party

Conference & ERGO Network 10 Years Anniversary Party

Register here by 26 November 2018

ERGO Network has been working actively to use bottom-up and partnership-based approaches such as Community-Led Local Development to engage Roma people more actively in shaping the future of their local communities. Involving Roma themselves in the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes creates trust between authorities and Roma, contributes to more effective needs-based approaches and avoids misuse of funds.

At ERGO Network’s Conference, we will discuss the potential of local partnerships between Roma communities and other stakeholders and give recommendations from the Roma grassroots level on how to strengthen local partnerships through the next EU programming period.

Download the concept note and agenda here.

The conference will be followed by ERGO Network’s 10 years anniversary celebration, with food, bubbles and Roma live music!!

Roma NGOs involvement within Local Action Groups of rural area in the Western region of Romania

Roma NGOs involvement within Local Action Groups of rural area
in the Western region of Romania

The present research aims to analyze the Roma NGO’s/ community involvement in the Local Action Groups’ (LAG) activity of the rural area in the Western region of Romania based on their relation with the public authorities and the LAG’s management teams. In this context, we aim to identify possible active measures for Roma NGO’s in order to strengthen the Roma involvement within the LAG’s and to analyze possible main obstacles based on actors’ perception and experience.

Download the research paper here

Call for expert on CLLD

Call for expert

ERGO Network is contracting an expert on Community-Led Local Development and Roma inclusion to coordinate part of our work programme on CLLD in 2018

Role of the expert

We are searching for an expert to coordinate ERGO Network’s capacity-building and advocacy work on Roma inclusion in the CLLD in 2018, which is part of our Annual Work Programme ‘Roma Included in Social Europe’ funded by DG Employment.

2018 is a crucial year for CLLD in Europe, as important steps are taken on EU and Member State level for the new programming period 2020-2027 and the Urban CLLD is expanded. The expert is expected to support ERGO and its member organisations in Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania in their capacity-building and advocacy work and to build on the experiences and achievements of the network in the area of CLLD from the past years.

Specifically, the expert is expected to:

Develop stage 3 and 4 of ERGO Network’s CLLD Quality Audit on Roma participation and implementation, coach members in using it, collect results and preparing the synthesis report
Develop stage 1 and 2 of a CLLD Quality Audit for the Urban CLLD
Develop a capacity-building trajectory for Roma NGOs and LAGs on Roma inclusion in the Urban CLLD
Support ERGO Network in setting up an EU advocacy strategy to ensure the next programming period includes Roma experiences in the CLLD.

Profile:

Excellent knowledge of Community-led Local Development in rural and urban settings and in the contexts of Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia
Expertise on Roma issues and policies on European Union and member state level
Experience working with civil society organisations in the fields of advocacy and capacity-building
Good contacts with relevant stakeholders, such as Federations of LAGs, Rural Development Network, DG Regio
Good writing and analytical skills and ability to concisely summarise results for different audiences
Ability to work independently and at the same time coordinate regularly with the ERGO team and the member organisations

Conditions

Contract and budget: The expert will be subcontracted to fulfil part of the work programme in the Framework Partnership Agreement between ERGO Network and DG Employment. The expert has no rights vis-à-vis the European Commission.

The expert shall be paid for the execution of the activities and services a fee of maximum 5,800 EUR, all taxes and VAT included.

Application procedure

Interested and qualified candidates should submit the following documents:

CV
Motivation letter
Proposed methodology and timeline

We will select the expert according to the principle “Value for money”. Please send your application to info@staging.ergonetwork.org, indicating in the subject of the email “Application CLLD Expert” by 10 July 2018, 23:59 CET.

A detailed project summary can be provided upon request.

For further questions, please contact Gabriela Hrabanova (g.hrabanova@staging.ergonetwork.org)

Download the Call for expert

Support for the least developed districts and regional development in the Slovak Republic

Support for the least developed districts and regional
development in the Slovak Republic

Currently, CLLD support is aimed at strengthening the economic, social and territorial cohesion of predominantly rural areas and ensuring long-term sustainable territorial development, addressing the relationship between rural development centers and their functional background with the potential for complementarity to integrated territorial investment and sustainable development.That is why we have decided to look at other government measures that focus on regional development.

Download the study here

CLLD Training for Local Action Groups and potential beneficiaries

ERGO member Nevo Parudimos from Romania organised its first training on Community-Led Local Development for Local Action Groups and potential CLLD beneficiaries. The training was held in cooperation with the National Federation of Local Action Groups on 15/16 November 2017 in Tecuci, Romania.

The 40 participants, representing 10 LAGs from the South-East region of Romania, Roma NGOs and Roma from local communities, learned how CLLD can be used for the development and funding of projects targeting Roma communities. Parts of the programme were held for both LAGs and beneficiaries together in order to exchange ideas and create partnerships. During other parts the group split into two in order to focus on the specific needs of both groups.

The training was made possible thanks to the financial support of the European Commission’s EaSI programme through a Framework Partnership Agreement between ERGO Network and DG Employment.

If you would like to read more about ERGO’s work on the CLLD, visit our website.

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