Access to Right Programm

The Access to rights program aims at achieving unimpeded and non-discriminatory access to all those still displaced citizens of the region (5 SAp countries) to their basic human, economic and social rights in the five years to come and eventually expand to larger groups of vulnerable citizens in the region.

Objectives:

• Identification of shortcomings and gaps in the legal framework, the relevantimplementation instruments and the level of access of the citizens to these with specific attention to property rights, social rights such as pensions, health and education,employment and citizenship.
• Agreement and consensus on the status, gaps and adequate action through aconsultative process on national and regional level, bringing state and non-state actors,including civil society, to cooperate. Introduction and implementation of sustainable national and regional mechanisms formonitoring and reporting on the progress of implementation.
• As a result of extensive consultations with governments, international organizations and civil society, a first project proposal has been developed. It outlines the necessary steps and proposes to establish a research team (1-2 persons) and a project team (2-3 persons). The facilitator for the program is the Danish Refugee Council (DRC). Initial funding has been secured from Ireland. Denmark and the European Commission (Regional CARDS Funds) have informed that they also consider financially supporting the program. The programme will be supervised from Brussels until the full capacity of the regional centre in Skopje has been established.

More operational details to follow soon; in the meantime please contact Mr.
Kilian.Kleinschmidt@stabilitypact.org