EU Financial Assistance to the Western Balkans: A Minority-focused Review of CARDS and IPA

EU Financial Assistance to the Western Balkans: A Minority-focused Review of CARDS and IPA
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Publisher : Minority Rights Group
Total Pages : 40
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ISBN-10 : 9781907919039
ISBN-13 : 1907919031
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Book Synopsis EU Financial Assistance to the Western Balkans: A Minority-focused Review of CARDS and IPA by : Heidrun Ferrari

Download or read book EU Financial Assistance to the Western Balkans: A Minority-focused Review of CARDS and IPA written by Heidrun Ferrari and published by Minority Rights Group. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1990s, the European Union (EU) has been the largest donor to the countries of the Western Balkans -- Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo. Since the late 1990s, the main focus of this engagement has been ensuring political and economic stabilization and the consolidation of democracy and civil society in the region. The need to address the needs and priorities of minority groups was early on identified as a key component in the process of ensuring long-term democratic stabilization. But as this study shows, despite this commitment, neither the CARDS nor the IPA development programme have succeeded in consistently addressing minority issues and supporting civil society organizations (CSOs) representing minority issues, or in having a profound, positive impact on the lives of marginalized minority groups in the region. This study provides a minority-rights focused assessment of the EU's principal development programmes for engagement in the region -- the Community Assistance for Reconstruction, Development and Stabilisation (CARDS) programme (which ran from 2002 until 2006) and the current Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) programme. Drawing on policy and programme documents, as well as material collected by partner organizations in the region during workshops and interviews with minority CSOs, the report assesses the extent to which minority inclusion and protection forms a part of the current IPA strategy and programming, looking particularly at minority participation in public life, access to education and access to employment.


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