The Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)’s Roma Integration 2020 (RI2020) is organizing the 3rd Meeting of the Working Group for Developing Regional Standards for Roma Responsible Budgeting in Rome, on 08 November 2018, to present and discuss research findings related to the budgetary process in the enlargement region economies and agree on further steps towards introducing Roma responsible budgeting in governments’ procedures.

By the end of 2018 the Working Group is expected to elaborate minimum standards for participating economies to apply when developing and budgeting policies to make them Roma responsible, and to prepare proposal of regional and economy-specific amendments to organic budget laws and other relevant legislation which will allow for structurally embedding Roma integration needs in budget planning and adopting, budget spending and budget control.