Enhancing the role of local communities in preventing dropout from the education system15Feb2017
Public Policy Research Center, in partnership with the Centre for Social Policy as a leading organization, is implementing a project Tools for Preventing Roma Dropout with the objective to decrease dropout and early school leaving of children, particularly among Roma children and returnees upon the Readmission Agreement.
- Conducting research on the functioning of existing mechanisms at local level for preventing dropout;
- Designing and piloting an advanced community early warning and response system for preventing dropout;
- Designing protocols at local level for preventing dropout that will be used by schools, centers for social work, intersectoral committees, health centers, local self-governments and other relevant mechanisms and partners at local level (such as Roma coordinators, pedagogical assistants, health mediators).
- Selecting 10 good practice examples from local self-governments across Serbia that are active in dropout prevention
- Promotion of the advanced community early warning and response system for preventing dropout and early school leaving.
- Prevention of dropout from the education system has been recognized as a priority in achieving quality education for all, in the Strategy for Education Development in Serbia 2020, in the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma People for the period 2016-2025 and in the Employment and Social Reform Program (2016).
The project will be implemented in three local communities until June 2018 with support from the European Union, through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR).