CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Tanasie, Carmen |
|---|---|
| Title | Understanding the implementation of the Romanian National Roma Integration Strategy from 2001-2012 |
| Summary | This thesis looks at the factors that hindered the implementation of the National Roma Integration Strategy (NRIS) 2001-2012 in Romania. The NRIS, designed in early 2001, was demanded by the European Union (EU) as a precondition for Romania to become part of the EU. The NRIS has the aim of improving the lives of the Roma minority in four areas: education, health, employment and housing. The NRIS was updated and changed several times during this period, and a special institutional framework was established to assist the implementation of Roma policies. However, according to national and international reports, the implementation of the NRIS was not successful. This thesis focuses on the factors that hampered the implementation using document analyses and semi-structured interviews as methodology. The main factor that influenced the NRIS implementation process was the institutional discrimination of Roma in Romania. Long-term structural institutional discrimination in Romania against Roma led to less than clear policies and weak political commitment towards implementing the NRIS. In addition to diagnosing these problems, the thesis offers recommendations of how the loopholes which hinder the successful realization of the NRIS might be closed. Keywords: Roma, Romania, National Roma Integration Strategy, implementation, policy, discrimination |
| Supervisor | Thilo Bodenstein |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/tanasie_carmen.pdf |
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