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Using EU Structural Funds for early childhood education and care with focus on marginalised Roma communities in the 2014-2020 period
Presentation by Joanna Kostka
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Why Invest in Quality Early Childhood Education and Care?
• Ending the intergenerational transmission of poverty
• A return on investment/ preventive action• Brain Development / well being of children• Preparation of school (preventing early school leaving) + enhances chances to succeed in life
• Children’s rights and social responsibility
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Access to ECEC UNDP-WB Roma Survey 2011, UNICEF database for school year 2010/11 (children aged 3-6)
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Access to Quality Quality: a degree of excellence
Educational Reforms
- Human resources - Teacher – student interaction
- Teacher – parents interaction
- Curriculum - Health / well being - Equipment - Facilities
- Diversity- Desegregation - Cultural sensitivity- Awareness
- BUDGETS- PARTNERSHIP
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EU Regulation for 2014-2020 funding period
• Integrated use of funds• Thematic ex-ante conditionality (Annex IV(9) and IV(10))
a) Education (early school leaving)
b) Social-inclusion (poverty elevation and Roma inclusion)• General ex-ante conditionality (Article 5.1.c and 87.3 and Annex IV(1))
a) Anti-discrimination • ESF - equal access to quality early childhood education (Article
3.1.b.1, 3.1.c.ii)
• Identification + targeting of the most disadvantaged micro regions (Article 14.c and Annex IV)
• Promoting equal opportunity + capacity building of partners
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Recommendations EU Level
To strengthen ex-ante conditionality
Emphasize ECEC as a horizontal priority
Why? • Enforce the realization that ECEC is one of the most crucial
factors for breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty
• Enforce the realization that ECEC has high return on investment
• Prevent cuts in ECEC budget due to economic crisis• Enhance potential synergies between EU funding and
other tools (e.g. legislation, state budget)
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Specific Recommendations – EU Level Thematic Ex-ante conditionality for education (Early School Leaving)
Should include references to : • Special needs of disadvantaged groups• Access to quality ECEC (comprehensive approach) • Desegregation and promotion of active anti-segregation
initiatives (indirect, culturally bias barriers) • Creation of diverse teaching staff and teaching
methodologies
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Recommendation for EU levelCommon Strategic Framework - ERDF
Explicit reference should be made on early childhood development also in key actions for ERDF
• support for investment in early childhood development, education and training infrastructure
• fostering non-segregated pre-school education
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Recommendations National Programming Documents
a) Linking SF to mainstream educational strategies
b) ECEC horizontal priority
c) Long term strategies/provisions – moving away from pilot project
d) Targeting of deprived micro-region and urban centers
e) Incentives for local actors to comply with conditionality (partnership – cooperative culture)
f) Technical assistance (ex-ante assessments/guidance in implementation)
g) ECEC Infrastructure (desegregation)
h) Revision of the national strategies (defining budgets)
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Implementation phase AGS’ experiences in Slovakia, Hungary and Romania
a. SUSTAINABLILTY
b. Comprehensive ECEC services (community based services/ health services/curriculum/equality standards)
c. Infrastructure/ elimination of capacity issues/ uneven distribution
d. De-segregation (strategic-preventive action)
e. Training and labor insertion (human resources)
f. Development of teaching materials (ex. national language as second language)
g. Technical assistance to project implementers/ improved management of SF (advanced payments, reimbursements)
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Thank you very much for your attention
Joanna Kostka