Project: Improving Equal Treatment and Human Dignity of Members of Vulnerable Groups Sentenced for a Penal Offence

Project: Improving Equal Treatment and Human Dignity of Members of Vulnerable Groups Sentenced for a Penal Offence
Implementation period:
01.03.2006 – 01.03.2008
Partners:
Penal Reform International
Crime Prevention Fund – IGA
Source of Funding:
Phare Networking Program of the EU Commission
Main objectives:
- To contribute to the development of an integrated community response ensuring equal treatment and human dignity for people from marginalized groups sentenced for a penal offence - Roma people, institutionalized children and young people at risk of becoming addicted to drugs;
- Strengthen the capacity of selected Romanian and Bulgarian Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) as promoters of equal treatment and human rights of the Roma people, institutionalized children and young people at risk of becoming addicted to drugs;
Specific objectives
1. Network to facilitate the dialogue between CSO practitioners in Bulgaria, Romania and the EU on experiences, lessons learned, policy development, and advocacy;
2. Facilitate the transfer of know how and expertise from European Union CSOs to CSOs in Romania and Bulgaria, in the fields of provision of services, care and advocacy;
3. Improve the CSO advocacy and awareness raising actions that fight the perception of the general public and that of selected categories of public that members of vulnerable groups represent a threat to the safety of the community and its individual members;
4. Improve the CSO capacity to design and deliver services for the social integration and rehabilitation (education, care, employment support, and advocacy) of members of vulnerable groups that have been sentenced for a penal offence;
5. Improve the CSO capacity to work effectively, in an integrated manner together with relevant stakeholders for the design and implementation of social and penal policy measures, recommendations, plans of action, tools and methodologies that take into consideration the special needs and resources of people belonging to vulnerable groups, their families and local communities, promoting equal treatment and human dignity for their target populations in prisons and in the community;