22.03.2024

A NATIONAL ACTION PLAN FOR THE PERIOD 2024-2027 FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF BULGARIA'S NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR ROMA EQUALITY, INCLUSION AND PARTICIPATION HAS BEEN ADOPTED

The Council of Ministers adopted a National Action Plan for the period 2024-2027 for the implementation of the National Strategy of the Republic of Bulgaria for equality, inclusion and participation of the Roma (2021-2030).

The plan contains measures in all priorities of the National Strategy – education, healthcare, employment, housing conditions, rule of law and non-discrimination, culture.

The measures in it are proposed by the responsible institutions and organizations according to their competences. The adopted plan contains new measures, those whose implementation continues from the previous plan for 2022-2023, and others have been updated. They are specific, the sources of financing and the amount of the planned funds are indicated, the indicators that will be measured, the base and target values that have been set are listed.

The plan was consulted with civil organizations that are members of the National Council for Cooperation on Ethnic and Integration Issues and with other active organizations that also participated in the preparation of the National Strategy and the previous plan for the period 2022-2023.

The financial provision of the measures in the action plan will be implemented with funds from the state budget and financial support through the instruments of the EU and other donors (Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area, Norwegian Financial Mechanism and Swiss-Bulgarian Cooperation Program).