Education for Social Justice – training co-partnering REF


UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports, Romania will conduct a two-day training entitled “Education for Social Justice”. The training will be organized in partnership with the International Step by Step Association, the Step by Step Center for Education and Professional Development, the Open Society Foundations, and the Roma Education Fund. The event will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on September 29-30, 2011.




UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports, Romania will conduct a two-day training entitled “Education for Social Justice”. The training will be organized in partnership with the International Step by Step Association, the Step by Step Center for Education and Professional Development, the Open Society Foundations, and the Roma Education Fund. The event will take place in Bucharest, Romania, on September 29-30, 2011.


The training will be organized within the framework of the EU-UNICEF Joint Management Project the Roma Good Start Initiative (RGSI). Funded by the European Union, the project aims to address measures to promote Early Childhood Development (ECD) as an entry point to fostering the social inclusion of Roma children.  It is being implemented in six countries: Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Spain, and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The activities of the project include research, advocacy, capacity development, and communication, addressing the importance of ensuring that all children, including the most disadvantaged and marginalized, such as the Roma, are given the opportunity to have the best start in life. 


The expected results of RGSI are an increased capacity of relevant stakeholders and service providers to include Roma children in early childhood programs and to strengthen and expand existing services to embrace and implement inclusive early childhood care and education approaches.