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Currently, the educational inclusion of children with Special Educational Needs (SEN) and children from Roma communities is difficult to implement due to the challenges and barriers that exist in Romanian society. Thus, the main challenges are determined by the inter-institutional nature and the way in which the collaboration of the relevant actors involved in this process (institutions/school-pupils with special needs - parents) is carried out. The problem is all the more widespread as the groups directly affected by the problem (children with ESC or from Roma communities) are neither mobilised nor directly involved in the process of reforming the education system. Moreover, they do not have the relevant means and knowledge specific to the advocacy process to directly advocate for reforms at national level to improve their situation.
The project aims to increase the level of involvement in advocacy on the need for education reform focused on the needs of vulnerable groups of 85 children representing 3 vulnerable groups: children with disabilities, Roma children and rural children. Thus the target group will be trained in the advocacy process, gaining knowledge and skills in this regard. Also within the project an educational guide for children with ESC will be developed, which will contain methods and techniques for learning and working with children with ESC. This manual can be used by teachers, youth workers and other people interested in developing skills in this field.
The target groups of the project are 25 children with ESC, 40 Roma children and 20 rural children without special needs.
Partners are involved in awareness raising and mobilization of vulnerable groups, as well as in the organization of events and non-formal activities, dissemination of the project, development of good practices etc.
Summary of project results
The necesity of the project consists in the low level of educational incluzion of children, cauzed by the interinstitutional character,inneficient teamwork of actors involved and lack of heterocity of childrens collectivities in inclusive schools.
The main activities were was implemented: exchange of best practices with the Norwegian partner / development of the institutional collaboration relationship, training accessing funding sources dedicated to NGOs and creation of fundraising campaigns, with emphasis on activities with a role in assessing the needs of children and young people belonging to vulnerable groups: 85 children with special educational needs, Roma and young people with disabilities, according to the established target group. Awareness-raising and mobilization activities were carried out through advocacy activities, non-formal education sessions (160 children), as well as a cultural / educational event for the children involved in the project.
The main results of the project: Following the research, the needs faced by the students were identified (children from rural areas, Roma children and children with disabilities). The 85 students who benefited from the advocacy activities developed communication skills with resource persons who can intervene in solving the identified problems. The participants in the non-formal education sessions (160 children) experienced new work methods and techniques that facilitate the accumulation of knowledge and the development of certain skills. The central axis was the creation of a guide of methods and good practices of learning-teaching for children belonging to vulnerable groups - deliverable A4 - for teachers, trainers, instructors, assistants who care for children with SEN and have a role in educating them, parents. The guide, in digital format, presents methods adapted to the needs of children with SEN, children / young people from vulnerable groups, facilitates the personal development of each of them, their evolution within the groups they belong to, in the family and in the community, and can be distributed on a large scale. to other schools, trainers and teachers, School Inspectorates, in order to inform a large number of educators / teachers and to adopt the methods at the level of other educational units, so that the number of beneficiaries of improved services to expand to people who were not directly involved in the project.
Summary of bilateral results
Throughout the implementation of the activities, the partner provided the informational support and the exchange of good practices that the promoter needed to carry out this project aimed at children/young people with vulnerabilities (children with SEN, Roma children, children with other vulnerabilities), the collaboration contributing substantially improving the knowledge and understanding of some essential aspects of the project - advocacy, best practices guide in working with children with CES, the organization of cultural events dedicated to these children, direct beneficiaries of the project. Also, the indirect beneficiary of the project is the community. The contribution of this partner in the project: - informational support regarding the structure and materials for the preparation of the guide of methods and good practices; - exchange of best practices regarding the advocacy activities provided for in the project; - exchange of information and experience for us, as a promoter, involved in the first project financed by ACF; - very good and prompt communication with the entire project team. Results: - significant contribution to broadening the horizon regarding other educational systems, ways to solve the problems of children/young people with vulnerabilities; -improving the activity and image of the NGO promoting the project; We rate the collaboration with the Norwegian partner as very good.