LGI Roma Public Administration Training Program
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Contact Person: Petra Kovacs kovacsp@osi.hu
First offered in Hungary in 1999 as a pilot project, the Public
Administration Summer University and Training Program for Locally Elected
Roma Leaders in Hungary
has been expanded to Czech Republic and Slovakia
LGI now seeks to expand through new partners in the region.
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A program to train elected Roma leadership has been launched by the Local
Government and Public Service Reform Initiative (LGI), in cooperation with the
Romedia Foundation and the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at ELTE
University, Budapest. Geared to enable elected Roma leadership to participate
more effectively in local government councils, the program stresses courses on
management and finance.
The Summer University Program is accepting applications from elected Roma
leaders who have more than three years of experience in local governance for the
1999 summer term. The Program offers courses in local government management,
finance, strategy building and case studies. Fifteen participants for courses in
Budapest from August 23 to September 3, 1999 will be accepted. Sixty applicants
from Hungary have already applied. A comprehensive exam at the end of the course
determines which students will receive a Summer University Program certificate.
Capacity-building Training, offered at four regional centers in Hungary
between October and December 1999, addresses the practical questions of local
government management and finance. The training is strongly practice-oriented to
boost the skills of elected Roma leaders with less than two years of experience
in public administration. Each regional training session will host a maximum of
twenty participants.
All training, accommodation, food and travel costs are covered by the
organizers. Professional quality and value guarantee the program's success for
participants.
Under the aegis of LGI's Managing Multiethnic Communities Program, this
scheme was refined in consideration of interethnic relations in heterogeneous
communities. Theoretical and practical training arms and empowers the capacity
of locally elected Roma leaders to participate effectively in local
decision-making and to represent their community. Issues such as best practices,
education, participation and conflict resolution related to the management of
multiethnic communities frame the courses.
