REF Romania’s Board of Directors appointed Mr. Dan Pavel Doghi as Interim Country Director for the Roma Education Fund ‒ Romania, starting in October 2013.
REF Romania’s Board of Directors appointed Mr. Dan Pavel Doghi as Interim Country Director for the Roma Education Fund ‒ Romania, starting in October 2013.
Since 2012, Mr. Doghi is a member of the REF management committee and is the Higher Education Program Manager at the Roma Education Fund ‒ Budapest. He’s presently in charge of the implementation of the largest tertiary education Scholarship Program for Roma in the region, with four distinct schemes spanning 16 countries in Central and South Eastern Europe. He’s also a member of the Board of the European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC), volunteering to support the work of the organization, contributing to defining its priorities and focus, and furthering its development and fundraising activities. Between 1994 and 2000 Mr. Dan Doghi focused on human rights, acting on behalf of various Roma NGOs in Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca, He helped to establish and develop a number of Roma NGOs, among them Amare Phrala ‒ Our Brothers, and Romano Suno ‒ Roma Students Organization.
He previously worked as Program Coordinator of the Soros Foundation spin-off, the Resource Centre for Roma Communities in Cluj-Napoca between 2000 and 2003. During this time, Mr Doghi developed and coordinated a national network of Roma NGOs in Romania. As a Program Officer of the first EU pre-accession PHARE Program in Romania focusing on Roma, he had responsibilities throughout all steps of the implementation process.
Between 2003 and 2004, Mr. Doghi was an Advocacy Fellow at the Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI), a program of the Columbia University Budapest Law Center, focusing on the discriminatory placement of Roma children in special schools and what it meant for children with mental disabilities and learning difficulties, as well as on desegregation efforts.
Mr. Doghi later occupied the post of Officer on Roma and Sinti Issues of the OSCE ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues for seven years, , focusing on the implementation of the related OSCE Action Plan starting in 2004.
Mr. Doghi studied social science at Babes Bolyai in Cluj Napoca, Romania, and completed a postgraduate course in International Diplomacy at Malta University.
For more information:
https://www.romaeducationfund.org/scholarship-programs
http://romaeducationfund.ro/en/projects/
