No Data - No Progress

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The year 2010 marks the half-way point of the Decade of Roma Inclusion. It is a logical place for the 12 participating Decade countries to assess their progress and to ensure that their initiatives are on track, and that living conditions for the 4.5 million Roma who live in these countries are improving. By evaluating their efforts, governments would demonstrate their seriousness and commitment to the political pledges they made to their Roma populations at the Decade's inception in 2005.
Yet five years later, the lack of data about Roma communities remains the biggest obstacle to conducting any thorough assessment of how governments are meeting their Decade commitments.
No Data—No Progress is an effort by the Open Society Foundations' Roma Initiatives to challenge the data deficit. The report asks questions like what are the barriers to governments compiling or generating data disaggregated for ethnicity? Do such data even exist? And, if so, have governments collected... Tovább

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The year 2010 marks the half-way point of the Decade of Roma Inclusion. It is a logical place for the 12 participating Decade countries to assess their progress and to ensure that their initiatives are on track, and that living conditions for the 4.5 million Roma who live in these countries are improving. By evaluating their efforts, governments would demonstrate their seriousness and commitment to the political pledges they made to their Roma populations at the Decade's inception in 2005.
Yet five years later, the lack of data about Roma communities remains the biggest obstacle to conducting any thorough assessment of how governments are meeting their Decade commitments.
No Data—No Progress is an effort by the Open Society Foundations' Roma Initiatives to challenge the data deficit. The report asks questions like what are the barriers to governments compiling or generating data disaggregated for ethnicity? Do such data even exist? And, if so, have governments collected disaggregated data to assess progress?
No Data—No Progress aims to compel policymakers and advocates to take action against a lack of fundamental statistics that continues to be one of the biggest barriers to monitoring the Decade of Roma Inclusion and to implementing sound policies to promote more equitable societies.
No Data—No Progress offers achievable measures that policymakers at the national and international levels can immediately act upon to help improve data about the living standards and conditions of Europe's Roma communities. The report makes it clear that getting solid data is a realistic goal that will have a strong impact on projects, policies, and people. Vissza