The Terms of Reference for the Decade of Roma Inclusion were adopted at the 7th ISC meeting in Bucharest, Romania, on November 18, 2005.

 

Planning for the Decade is guided by an International Steering Committee (ISC), made up of representatives of participating governments, Roma organizations, international donors, and other international organizations. In late 2006, the ISC agreed upon the establishment of a Decade Secretariat in Budapest, Hungary, which will directly support the Presidency of the Decade. Slovakia currently holds the Decade Presidency, which rotates annually according to the following schedule:

 

July 1, 2005 − June 30, 2006 Romania

 
July 1, 2006 − June 30, 2007 Bulgaria

July 1, 2007 − June 20, 2008 Hungary 

July 1, 2008 − June 30, 2009 Serbia

July 1, 2009 − June 30, 2010 Slovakia

July 1, 2010 − June 30, 2011 Czech Republic

July 1, 2011 − June 30, 2012 Macedonia

July 1, 2012 − June 30, 2013 Croatia

July 1, 2013 − June 30, 2014 Montenegro

 

A Decade Trust Fund (DTF) administered by the World Bank, was created as a flexible tool for financing joint activities of the ISC. The DTF is not a general grant fund supporting the Roma-related activities of individuals and organizations; instead it finances activities that benefit all Decade countries. It supports two principal types of activities: (i) cross-country technical support, training and workshops in the context of refining and implementing the national Decade action plans and the cross-cutting issues of poverty, discrimination and gender, and (ii) monitoring and evaluation of Decade implementation across the Decade countries.

 

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 [1] Annex 3 of the Summary of the 3rd ISC Meeting, June 24-25, 2004