RCM 2021-2025 reports:
The RCM 2021-2025 initiative includes two cycles of country monitoring reports:
The first cycle (2022): most countries’ monitoring reports assess the quality of the new national Roma strategic frameworks developed by the EU Member States following the EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation 2020. The national strategies are assessed in line with four monitoring criteria:
- participation of Roma in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the national Roma strategic framework,
- national Roma strategic framework’s relevance to the needs of Roma people in their diversity,
- expected national Roma strategic framework’s effectiveness (i.e., the likelihood that it will accomplish its stated objectives),
- alignment of the national Roma strategic framework with the EU Roma Strategic Framework for Equality, Inclusion and Participation.
However, in the case of some Member States (Finland, Ireland, Portugal), the first cycle monitoring reports concern the assessment of the implementation of respective pre-2020 National Roma Integration Strategies, lessons learnt and recommendations for the new strategy.
The second cycle (2025): monitoring reports assessing the implementation of these new national Roma strategic frameworks with a focus on the local level.
Country | 1st cycle (ex-ante assessment of the post-2020 national strategic frameworks) | 2nd cycle (assessment of the implementation of the national strategic framework) |
Austria | English / local | English / local |
Belgium | English / local | English / local |
Bulgaria | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Croatia | English / local | English / local |
Cyprus | English / local | English / local |
Czechia | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Denmark | English / local summary | English / local summary |
Estonia | English / local | English / local |
Finland | English / local (lessons and recommendations from the pre-2020 strategy) | English / local |
France | English / local | English / local |
Germany | English / local | English / local |
Greece | English / local | English / local |
Hungary | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Ireland | English (lessons and recommendations from the pre-2020 strategy) | English |
Italy | English / local | English / local |
Latvia | English / local | English / local |
Lithuania | English / local | English / local |
Luxembourg | English | English |
Netherlands | English / local | English / local |
Poland | English / local | English / local |
Portugal | English / local (lessons and recommendations from the pre-2020 strategy) | English / local |
Romania | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Slovakia | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Slovenia | English / local | English / local |
Spain | English / Romani / local | English / Romani / local |
Sweden | English / local summary | English / local summary |
The knowledge from each of the two monitoring cycles will be summarised in synthesis reports:
Roma Civil Monitor (2022) A synthesis of civil society’s reports on the quality of the national strategic frameworks for Roma equality, inclusion, and participation in the European Union. (English)
Transnational reports on selected issues shared by several countries participating in RCM and ad hoc reports on specific topics:
Roma Civil Monitor (2024). Examples of successful housing desegregation as a precondition of Roma integration. Edited by Marek Hojsik.
Roma Civil Monitor (2024). Diversity in the national Roma strategic frameworks (ad hoc report). By Roland Ferkovics.
Roma Civil Monitor (2024). Roma equality and inclusion in Europe’s green transition: Energy poverty in Czechia, Hungary, Ireland and Slovakia. By Eva Schwab
RCM 2017-2020 reports:
Country reports within the RCM 2017-2020 pilot project were produced in three cycles:
The first monitoring cycle (2017) reviewed key structural preconditions of successful implementation: governance and overall policy framework (including Roma participation, coordination structures, use of European Structural and Investment Funds), anti-discrimination, fighting antigypsyism, and for the countries with the largest Roma communities (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia) also the impact of mainstream education policies on Roma.
In the second monitoring cycle (2018), the reports focus on the key policy areas of education, employment, healthcare and housing.
In the third monitoring cycle (2019/2020), the reports focus on blind spots in Roma inclusion policies. Such blind spots include issues that hinder the Roma inclusion but have not been effectively considered or addressed by the Member States.
Information from the country monitoring reports was summarised in synthesis reports:
Roma Civil Monitor (2018) A synthesis report on implementation of national Roma integration strategies in Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia: Focusing on structural and horizontal preconditions for successful implementation of the strategy. (English / Romani)
Roma Civil Monitor (2018) A synthesis of civil society’s reports on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies in the European Union: Focusing on structural and horizontal preconditions for a successful implementation. (English / Romani)
Roma Civil Monitor (2020) A synthesis of civil society’s reports on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies in the European Union: Assessing the progress in four key policy areas. (English / Romani)
Roma Civil Monitor (2020) A synthesis of civil society’s reports on the implementation of national Roma integration strategies in the European Union: Identifying blind spots in Roma inclusion policy. (English / Romani)
Comparative analysis of data from all 27 member states per topic is available in thematic fiches:
Substantive thematic areas
Horizontal measures
- anti-discrimination
- fighting antigypsyism
- addressing specific needs of the most vulnerable groups among Roma
Structural measures
- stakeholder involvement at the central level
- mainstreaming of Roma inclusion at the local level
- civil participation and empowerment
- funding for civil society
- data collection
Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015 reports:
Civil society monitoring reports 2012:
Civil society monitoring reports 2013: