Civil society monitoring report on implementation of the national Roma integration strategy in Croatia

Summary:

An external evaluation of the current Croatian National Roma Integration Strategy has stated that the most progress in this area has been seen in education despite its ongoing problems, e.g., in outreach for preschool, segregation in education, and poor quality of education. The situation in other fields is more problematic; for example, the Government has to decide if it will continue improving housing conditions in segregated Roma settlements or rather focus on the elimination of residential segregation.

Croatia is facing a severe labour shortage that could be saturated by members of the Roma community, but most of them do not have necessary formal education. Adult education for Roma is an area that could be better covered by affirmative measures in the next strategic period. In all areas, efforts are still needed to combat the discrimination of Roma and to fight antigypsyism.

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