Capacity Building Training on Piloting the Guidelines for Roma Responsive Budgeting in Montenegro
- 10 May 2019
- News
Tivat – The series of capacity
building trainings on the application of the Guidelines for Roma Responsive
Budgeting for government officials started in Tivat, Montenegro. The two-day
training, organised by the Regional Cooperation Council's Roma Integration
project, serves as a first step towards hands-on application of Roma responsive
budgeting in Montenegro.
While the enlargement region
continues its efforts on Roma integration, available information show unsatisfactory
relationship between Roma integration policy documents, budget planning, expenditure
information and achieved results. With this in mind, the Roma Integration project
developed, in cooperation with the governments of the Western Balkans, Guidelines for Roma Responsive
Budgeting. Applying these Guidelines will ensure that the
governments of the Western Balkans incorporate and deliver specific Roma
integration goals in their mainstream policy developments by establishing a
link between these goals and public budgets, which is required for efficient
integration of Roma.
During the two days, participants
had the opportunity to practice Roma responsive budgeting on practical
examples, while also taking note of the budgeting gaps and potential solutions.
The training resulted in selecting two budget programmes on which the
guidelines will be piloted while preparing the 2020 public budget. The piloting will be performed on public works programme in the field of employment and the development of database of social apartments with revision of legal basis for benefiting from social housing in the housing area. The Roma
Integration project will continue to provide support to the Government of
Montenegro to effectively pilot the Guidelines in the preparation of the 2020
public budget.
Similar capacity building
trainings will be organized throughout the enlargement region in May 2019.