School Attendance Initiative Roma Role Models, Romania

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School Attendance Initiative

& Roma Role Models


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UNICEF Regional Office for CEE/CIS &The Issues of Roma Children

UNICEF RO carried out a series of studies and researches in order to document

and monitor the situation of Roma children

http://www.unicef.org/ceec

is/UNICEF_ROE_Roma_

Position_Paper_Web.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/r

omania/RECI-

Overview.pdf
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Education and Roma Children

75.9 percent of the Roma children who have

dropped out of school did NOT attendkindergarten;

The participation of Roma children in pre-

primary education at the age of 3 is over 12

times smaller than the national average;

At the age of six, the share of the Roma

children that are in school is over five times

lower than the national average.

44.22% of the children aged 7-11 are not

currently attending/have dropped out of school

64.62% of the children aged 12-16 are not

currently attending/have dropped out of schoolAbsenteeism is a worrying and growing

phenomenon, although not mentioned in

statistics.

http://www.unicef.org/romania/On

e_school_for_all_pt_WEB.pdf

http://www.unicef.org/romania/

Roma_school.pdf
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Education and Roma Children

The main dropout determinants are financial lacks (44%),poor academic results (16%), and only to a small extent

Roma parents lack of interest in childrens education (9%) or

the early marriage phenomenon (4% of answers from parent

questionnaires); Most of the schools lack coherent and efficient dropout

prevention strategies and they take action when it is alreadytoo late or they resort to inappropriate means;

64% of Roma children from Romani-speaking families learnin segregated classes as compared to 48.3% of children

from Romanian-speaking households.


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Early SchoolLeaving

At family level:

Financial difficulties; The parents and siblings educational example;

Family breakdown;

Entrance on labor market;

Re-integration issues of migrant children who re-enter

the education system when they come back to the

country.

At community level: Lack of individual security in the area;

The custom of discontinuing education after the eighth

grade;

Early marriage custom & having a child;

At school level: Grade retention;

Insufficient pupil integration;

Poor quality of the relationship with the teachers and

classmates.

Early School Leaving: possible

ways of prevention (2009 , UNICEFand Centrul Educaia2000+)

http://www.unicef.ro/publicatii/educatie/renuntarea-timpurie-la-educatie.html
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Family Community

School

Vertical intervention includes national, county and local levels

Vertical and horizontal levels of intervention

UNICEF: Education is the best route out of poverty

and marginalisation. A school attendance initiative which aims topromote education among children to fulfill their

potential in life.


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2010 - 2011

Interventions at school, community and familylevel in 38 communities in 16 counties.

School

AttendanceInitiative

SchoolMediators

CommunityLeaders

Localauthorities

Parents

SchoolDirectors

Theschool


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2011 2012 Results

60% of the children at drop-out risk haveimproved their school attendance In 50% of the schools the drop-out rate hasdecreased by 15-40% compared with the

rates recorded in the last two years School directors increased capacity to

prevent and reduce the causes of drop-out

and absenteeism Enhanced ability of teachers to adapt

teaching methods to the needs of the

children at risk Better prepared school mediators in

applying methods to reduce and preventdrop-out Increased awareness on the importance of

education among the parents A deeper understanding among the local

authorities on the educations value for

community development


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2011 - 2012

141 communities at national level Over 50.000 children part of the campaign

Institutul

de tiinealeEducaiei


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School Attendance Initiative- How

INTERVENTIONS

AT SCHOOL LEVEL

FAMILY LEVEL

COMMUNITYLEVEL

Training - School Directors; Teachers on curricular areas;

Activities with parents Training - School Mediators; School Principals on inclusive

and intercultural education; Romani language teachers

Extra-curricular activities with children

Parenting interventions:

Teachers and professionals from County Resource Centresfor Educational Assistance trained to deliver parenting

programmes; Parents will benefit of structured parenting

programmes

Face-to-Face discussions with parents:

Identification of children at risk of dropout; Visits to familieswith children at risk.

Inventory of the available human resources at community

level;

Instruments for professionals for monitoring and preventing

school dropout;

Training of professionals at community level; Promotion of dro out revention best ractices im lemented
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHXfoTE4Vc


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Inventory of Roma Human Resources

Objectives:

Increase capacityat local level;

Invest in Roma

human resources;

Develop Roma

role models atlocal level.

Inventory of Roma HumanResources
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHXfoTE4Vchttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHXfoTE4Vc


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Tools


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Roma Role Models

Identification of over 20 successful adult Roma rolemodels from various professions (including layer,policeman, priest, actor, social worker, etc.)

Development of a set of materials to convey themessage: a 20 minutes documentary movie about

the professional success of these Roma role models

that succeeded in life using the educational path and

a book comprising the life stories of the role models Valorisation of educational process among Roma

youth in 30 schools from Romania with a large

number of Roma pupils. Using a caravan, each

school was visited with the presence of one of the

role models. Children were exposed to the movie,after which discussions were held between the

children and the role model Raise of awareness of issue among communities

and stakeholders


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Roma Role Models

Launching Events

Teaser for the documentary; PhotoExposition

Two public figures endorsed thecampaign: a Roma singer, very popular

among youth, Connect-R and a young

Romanian actress Adela Popescu

Facebook Campaign on UNICEFFacebook page (over 70.000 fans)

Roma Role Models promoted throughRoma Week at the French Cultural

Institute Debate on the Invisible Roma Subject -

participants from Roma NGOs, press,

key opinion leaders, Roma &

Romanian Students Round table on the subject of Roma

social inclusion

Launching Success Stories Book


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Roma Role Models

http://www.unicef.ro/wp-

content/uploads/unicef_desp

re-noi.pdf
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Roma Role Models Documentary Teaser

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHXfoTE4Vchttp://youtu.be/YRA4qDASLG0
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Roma Role Models Documentary Teaser

MOVIE_QU'EST-CE QUE TU

VEUX FAIRE QUAND TU SERASGRAND?_FR

Movie_"What do you want to be

when you grow up?"_EN

Movie_Ce vrei sa te faci cand vei

fi mare?_RO

Teaser Qu'est-ce que tu veux

faire quand tu seras grand?

Teaser "What do you want to

be when you grow up?"

Teaser campanie "Ce vrei sa

te faci cand vei fi mare"
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Thank You!

Luminia CostacheSocial Policy Specialist

UNICEF Romania

[email protected]
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