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The National Roma Inclusion Strategy for the period 2013 to 2020 states that Roma women are a particularly excluded group; there is a traditional division of roles in Roma families; the relationship towards women is patriarchal; women are often marginalized and discriminated; due to their subordinate position they do not have the ability to plan a family. According to the results of the research for 27% of young Roma women in Croatia, the key reasons that lead to school dropout are early marriage, pregnancy and becoming a parent (15%). Of Romani women who have children, 50% of them gave birth to their first child underage, and 17% at the age of 16. The general goal of the project is to include young Roma women in all social, economic and political flows by reducing underage pregnancies and increasing their number finishing the primary and the secondary education. Also, the goals of the project is to raise the capacity of Roma NGOs, Councils of the Roma National Minority members and individual actors from the Roma Alliance Kali Sara for public and legislative advocacy, and to establish cross-sectoral cooperation with relevant institutions to prevent and support Roma women in cases of forced marriages and underage pregnancies, but also other forms of gender-based violence. The beneficiaries are young Roma women aged 13 to 18; the project will have an emancipatory effects, motivating them to continue their education, empower them to ask for help and conversation, and we will ensure the realization of their rights; representatives of CRNM and Roma NGOs are educated on legislative advocacy in the context of the upcoming The National Roma Inclusion Strategy and gender equality policies; Relevant institutions at the local level are more willing to cooperate in combating violence against Roma women, the Office for Human Rights and the Rights of National Minorities and the Office for Gender Equality include representatives of CRNM and Roma NGOs in policy working groups.