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Agenda of the Meeting of the Ukrainian Alliance

Agenda of the Meeting of the Ukrainian Alliance

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Meeting of the Alliance of Cities and Regions on Development of Roma Initiatives

 

Khreschatyk Hotel, Kyiv, Ukraine

 

16-17 November 2017

 

Agenda

 

Thursday, 16 November 2017

 

 

 

09.00 - 09.30

 

  Registration of participants

 

 

 

09.30-10.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10.00 – 11.10

 

 

 

Opening Session

Welcome Addresses

Ms Lubov Onoprienko, Deputy Head of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district administration

Mr Thorsten Afflerbach, Head of Division for the Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

Mr Volodymyr Hodokyvsky, Head of the Department for Interaction with National Communities of Ukraine and Foreign Ukrainians

 

 

Session 1: Sharing of best practices

 

Moderator: Ms Zola Kondur, Deputy Head of the Interministerial Coordination Group on Implementation of the Roma Strategy under the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine

 

Each municipality gives a presentation (5 minutes) about their past or current achievements in Roma inclusion

 

Ms Lubov Onoprienko, Deputy Head of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district administration

Ms Natalia Varbatsyuk, Center for Social Services of the Kharkiv Regional Administration

 

Ms Lyudmyla Dorokhina, Head of the Department for Family and Youth Affairs, Kropivnitsky City Council

 

Mr Yaroslav Riznikova, Head of the Department of Culture, Nationalities and Religions and the Protection of Cultural Heritage Objects of the Odessa Regional State Administration

 

Mr Volodmyr Kukin, Deputy Head of the Zaporizhzhya City Center for Social Services for the Family, Children and Youth Lytvynenko

 

11.10 – 11.30

 

Coffee Break

 

11.30- 13.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 2: Roma housing and legal documents

 

Ms Alla Yaroshenko, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Social Policy of the NPU Dragomanov NPU

 

Mr Vladimir Bambul, Head of the Roma organization Amé Roma

 

Mr Andriy Zarya, Head of the Department for Monitoring the Operation and Maintenance of the Housing Stock, Housing Policy. Ministry of Regional Development

13.00-14.30

 

Lunch

 

 

14.30 – 16.30

 

 

 

 

 

Session 3: The importance of sustainable Roma Inclusion and ways to go forward

 

Moderator: Mr Volodymyr Hodakivsky, representative of the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine

 

Experiences from Greece

presented  by Mr Emmanouil Rantis,

former Deputy Mayor of Agia Varvara, Greece, and
former ROMED2 National Project Officer for Greece

 

16.30 -17.15

 

 

 

Session 4: Signature ceremony: the “European Alliance of Cities and Regions for the Inclusion of Roma and Travellers” and the “Declaration of mayors and elected local and regional representatives of Council of Europe member States against anti-Gypsyism”

 

moderated by Mr Thorsten Afflerbach, Head of Division for the Roma and Travellers Team, Council of Europe

 

Mayors and elected local and regional representatives are invited to sign the Declaration against anti-Gypsyism

 

The Ukrainian Alliance of Cities and Regions on Development of Roma Initiatives joins the European Alliance of Cities and Regions for the Inclusion of Roma and Travellers

 

Photo session

 

17.15

End of the meeting
     

 

Friday, 17 November 2017

 

 

 

09.00 - 11.00

Session 5: Roma access to housing and identification papers: the experiences of Odessa and Uzhhorod

Mr Oleksandr Bilak, Deputy Mayor of Uzhgorod

Mr Yuriy Mandych, city Councillor of Uzhgorod City Council

Mr Volodymyr Kondur, Head of Roma Legal Center, Head of Roma Coalition of Roma NGOs “Strategy 2020”

Ms Olga Tsviliy, independent expert

Ms Olga Pochekina, Head of the Department of State Registration of Civil Status Acts of the Department of State registration and notary, Ministry of Justice of Ukraine

 

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