Bucharest, Str.Avrig Avrig, nr. 63, bl.E2, sc.5, ap.144, Piata Iancului,
021578 Bucharest
رومانيا
- Democracy and community development
- Gender
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
E-Romnja mission is to affirm, promote, advocate, raise up, and make visible Roma women's involvement in society and community. Our activities will be targeted on the involvement and consolidation of Roma women's position in Romanian society, in the community, and in the workplace. We are seeking through our activities to:
Advocate for programs that address Roma women's issues
Introduce gender perspective in all programs designed for Roma
Become a "watch dog NGO" demanding that images of Roma women must be respectfully represented, and defending their image in the public opinion.
Improve policies and measures undertaken in the fields of the labor market, education, health, justice, or any other field that could bring safety and protection.
Implement programs to achieve our mission.
Our vision is to raise fairness and justice for Roma women in all of Romanian society and at more basic, community levels.
We believe in:
Universality of human rights.
Equal opportunities.
Partnership and involvement.
Civic engagement.
Transparent decisions and the right to public information.
Local participation and women's involvement in decisions that concern community issues.
Protection of women’s interests and representation.
Our Goals:
To affirm, promote, advocate, raise and make visible Roma women's involvement in society and community. We will achieve our goal through the following objectives:
Dismantle stereotypes and perceptions about Roma women in ethnic identity.
Promote role models among Roma women.
Advocate professional training for Roma women in different areas related to the NGO’s mission.
Advocate partnerships with human rights institutions to protect their rights.
Increase involvement in national, and international networks and coalitions to protect women's rights.
Implement programs to empower women in Roma communities by informing them of their rights and bolster their civic participation.
Partner with businesses or corporations in order to develop projects on social corporate responsibility together.
Promote projects regarding cultural heritage of ethnic Roma in Romania and abroad.
Develop documents/papers to improve public policies for Roma and women.
Advocate to include a focus on gender and ethnic dimension in school curricula in elementary education, high schools, and universities.
Provide support to local NGO’s and women's NGO’s, both Roma and non-Roma, in activities such as: human rights, entrepreneurship, local development, and cultural awareness.
Increase involvement in international networks for women; lobby and advocate for Roma women's cause.
Projects in implementation
EEA Grants- ONG Fund,’’Women’s participation is EQUAL’’- April 2014 - June 2015
EEA Grants- ONG Fund, ’’I am a model for community’’ -January 2014 - August 2015
Foundation Open Society Institute–Roma Initiative Office,’’Get involved and change perspective’
Projects in partnership
EEA Grants- ONG Fund,’’Coalition for Gender Equality - April 2014 - August 2015
EEA Grants- ONG Fund, ’’Break the silence about sexual violence: strengthening the capacity of NGOs to integrate sexual violence on public agenda’’- April 2014 - March 2015
Open Society Institute – Human Rights program,''Protection order – advocacy and litigation
Partnership
We are part of a Coalition for Gender Equality along with other three ngo’s Centre for Equal Partnership, Front and ALEG
We are part of a coalition against sexual violence along with other seven organizations - coordinated by ALEG
We have also partnerships with: Romano ButiQ, Centre for Juridical Resources and Human Rights, Centre for Juridical Resources and Human Rights, Centre for Juridical Resources and Human Rights, National Agency for Roma, Sastipen - Roma Centre for Health Policy, National Democratic Institute, E-Civis,
We also developed partnerships with schools from Mizil, Spantov and Margineni de Jos and the Office’s mayor in Spantov We are beneficiary within a project run by Resource Centre for Public Participation (CeRe)
Creating a communication bridge between Roma and non-Roma women as a important factor for the success of our campaigns (lobby for different causes found at a local level, partnerships, etc.)
Creating or being a part of national and international networks who support women's initiatives.
Developing campaigns to combat the negative images and stereotypes related to Roma women.
Elaborating shadow reports/research/materials that document Roma women as in a vulnerable position in Romania.
Developing programs to integrate Roma women on the labor market.
To whom do we address our activities?
Roma women.
Local community members.
Local Roma communities.
Local authorities.
Unions and business associations.
National and international NGOs.
Academic organizations.
We are a group of activists aiming on the one hand to increase the participation an visibility of Roma women to all spheres of economic and social life, and on the other hand, we aim to do this using mainly grass roots tools. Important steps have been made in terms of representation at different levels, but their efficiency is limited also due to the low level of awareness at community/national/international level on the importance of culture exchange, tolerance, social justice
Since the topics of roma and migration, raciest and hate speeches are rather hot subjects among media at international level (European space but not only) these subjects tends to be ignored by national states whose members are roma.
We want to take part at this network in order to increase awareness on the threats of these phenomenon and also to encourage roma voice at international level.