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Drawing and applying poverty maps The Hungarian case. Open Society Foundations Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma initiative 23 Jan 2012. Mapping at 2 levels. Indicators. Settlement level: 2 social : education (primary school), employment Micro-region level: 14 social :
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Drawing and applying poverty mapsThe Hungarian case Open Society Foundations Making the Most of EU Funds for Roma initiative 23 Jan 2012
Indicators • Settlement level: • 2 social: education (primary school), employment • Micro-region level: • 14 social: • 6 income, property, demography, etc.: income, flat, car, migration, mortality, urbanisation • 5 poverty, etc.: education (secondary school), unemployed households, social assistance, child protection assistance, aging index • 3 employment: unemployment, long term unemployment, activity • 8 economic: number and change in number of enterprises, agriculture, services, tourism, retail, research, tax income • 9 infrastructural: piped water, sewage, gas, waste collection, road and motorway accessibility, phone, cable TV, broadband internet • Foreseen change: smaller number of indicators, more focus on social indicators
Indicators – *census data • Settlement level: • 2 social: education (primary school)*, employment • Micro-region level: • 14 social: • 6 income, property, demography, etc.: income, flat, car, migration, mortality, urbanisation • 5 poverty, etc.: education (secondary school)*, unemployed households*, social assistance, child protection assistance, aging index • 3 employment: unemployment, long term unemployment, activity* • 8 economic: number and change in number of enterprises, agriculture*, services*, tourism, retail, research, tax income • 9 infrastructural: piped water, sewage, gas, waste collection, road and motorway accessibility, phone, cable TV, broadband internet • Foreseen change: smaller number of indicators, more focus on social indicators
dark green: least developed micro-regions with integrated programme (33) medium green: least developed micro-regions (14) light green: less developed micro-regions (47) striped: micro-regions with high rate of Roma, census data (44)
Territorial targeting of funds • Funding • 300 meur, 1% of NSRF • From 8 OPs • Directly: 4 Regional OPs (ERDF), Social infra OP (ERDF), Social renewal OP (ESF) • Indirectly: State reform OP (ESF), Implementation OP (CF) • Allocation to each micro-region, 5-15 meur (based on No of population and settlements) • Coordination • No formal power • Informal organisational and personal power, coordination unit as all OP MAs in National Development Agency • Challenges • Lack of support from OP MAs (allocation, specific conditions) • Time
Equal opportunities guarantees • Tools • Planning, project generation • Roma inclusion among main objectives of the programme • Involvement of local Roma leaders • Involvement of equal opportunities experts, commissioned by the coordination unit • Mapping of segregated areas, preparation of equal opportunities analysis and plans • Initial project selection • Equal opportunities among main criteria of assessment of plans and project ideas • Involvement of equal opportunities experts • 2 weakest plans sent back for revision • A number of projects selected from reserve list • Project preparation • Initial project selection with draft project ideas (3 pages each) • Specific conditions for project selection • Cooperation with MtM in project preparation • Results • Intervention does not increase internal differences in any micro-region, decreases internal differences in 1/3 of the micro-regions • Around 40 meur, 13% with direct Roma inclusion or equal opportunities impact
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