Background

The survey aims to build a robust data set for effective evidence-based decision-making on policies that promote Roma inclusion in order to narrow the gap between Roma and non-Roma populations with regard to multi-dimensional poverty and access to socio-economic rights in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

Objectives

• Understand the socio-economic risks facing the Roma community through vulnerability assessments in selected Roma and neighbouring communities in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, including communities hosting Roma refugees or Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
• Inform policy making, programme design and implementation through quantitative and qualitative investigating selected topics related to Roma exclusion and challenges facing Roma, Roma refugees and IDPs in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
• Construct a digital social vulnerability index - an online tool illustrating access to public social services exclusion faced by Roma and vulnerable non-Roma.

Approach

• Build the capacities of policymakers to use data in policy-making processes including those related to the EU accession agenda and chapter 23 on Fundamental rights.
• Map thoroughly communities with significant Roma population and create ownership by local CSO and government counterparts.
• Set up an analytical and monitoring framework that follows the human rights-based approach applied by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) in EU member states.