Huesca - Last Tuesday’s Council of Ministers approved, at the proposal of the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, the Action Plan for the improvement of the employability of the Roma population. The subdelegate of the Government in Huesca, Carlos Campo, met today with Tamara Clavería, director of Aragon of the Fundación Secretariado Gitano, and with representatives of this entity in Huesca, to address the implementation of the measures of this program, which until 2028 will mobilize resources amounting to 304 million euros.
“With this Plan, the Government of Spain wants to give a real response to prevent Roma people, unfairly, from finding the doors of the labor market closed, and thus advance in equal opportunities in access to work,” said the deputy delegate. In addition, Campo has pointed out that this Plan includes a gender equality perspective that caters especially to Roma women.
The subdelegate recalled that this Plan also means complying with Spanish legislation, which recognizes the Roma population as one of the groups of priority attention and, consequently, requires the elaboration of measures that provide a response adapted to their situation of inequality and discrimination.
Measures of the Plan
This Plan is based on fourteen measures, including measures to improve the access of the Roma population to public employment services and employment activation programmes; to facilitate the compatibility of training and employment; to specific care for young people; to support labour mobility in rural areas; and to promote quality self-employment.
Specifically, these measures include issues such as the access of unemployed Gypsies to the services of the National Employment System and their registration as job seekers, so that they can be served by the most appropriate active search programmes. In the same sense, the elaboration of personalized employability itineraries is also contemplated. The objective is to reach the 107,000 unemployed gypsy people estimated for the whole of Spain.
In the area of training, it will be promoted that it can alternate with employment, mainly among young people and long-term unemployed people; it also specifically includes training with a commitment to recruitment, which is expected to reach 7,200 people, and training in digital skills, for 26,750 people.
Another point of the Plan is the comprehensive support for women in rural and urban environments for their territorial and social structuring. The Plan recognizes women as the main vector for innovation and rural entrepreneurship. Its presence is the guarantee of a living rural environment with a horizon of economic and social growth. Therefore, it considers it essential to create opportunities for their employment and to dignify their working conditions.
Finally, and because it has been demanded by the collective itself, it highlights the support for entrepreneurship and the modernization of street vending, which will materialize with the support of self-employment and the modernization of this activity.