Mapping Substandard Roma Settlements in Belgrade to Enhance Linkages between Housing and Social Inclusion Policies

This study was produced as part of the programme of support extended to the City of Belgrade as a political partner by German Development Cooperation in Serbia, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) as part of its individual measure of Integrated Urban Development Approaches for Roma Integration, which aims at promoting the development of integrated urban development approaches with the goal of ensuring the inclusion of Roma.
The aim of the study was to provide a preliminary overview of the features of substandard Roma settlements within the City of Belgrade across the five priority dimensions – housing, employment, education, healthcare, and social protection – of the Strategy for Social Inclusion of Roma, 2016-2025, which is the baseline document for developing local action plans in cities/towns and urban and other municipalities. The research took place from July to December 2021 and included interviews with officials of the City of Belgrade, urban municipalities, and Roma inclusion mechanisms, as well as on the available literature. The research covered all 17 urban municipalities of Belgrade

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Svetlana Đurđević Lukić Fund: HUMAN SECURITY FOR THE NEW CENTURY

Uncertainty and vulnerability of the individual in the 21st century is the focus of CENTAR’s Human Security Programme. Building on foundations set by the recently departed co-founder and longtime director of CENTAR, Svetlana Đurđević Lukić, CENTAR regards security as a human right and advocates for construing a society in which every individual will have opportunities to reach their potential. Svetlana had a talent of pioneering the introduction of many topics – primarily concerned with the security of vulnerable groups – into security discourse within Serbia. Fostering this approach, starting from 2016, CENTAR, as part of its foundation named after the late Svetlana, holds a competition with the goal of inspiring young researchers to examine modern day threats.