European Commission Directorate-General for International Partnerships (EuropeAid HQ)

Challenging Anti-Gypsyism by Roma Empowerment for Counteracting Disinformation and Fake News in Bulgaria

Last update: May 17, 2022 Last update: May 17, 2022

Details

Locations:Bulgaria
Start Date:Mar 1, 2020
End Date:Jul 31, 2022
Contract value:EUR 259,373
Sectors:Human Rights, Media and CommunicationsHuman Rights, Media and Communications
Categories:Grants
Date posted:May 17, 2022

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Description

Programme(s): Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme-REC Programme 2014-2020

Topic(s): REC-RDIS-DISC-AG-2019

Type of action: REC Action Grant

Funded under: Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme

Project ID: 881923

Objective: CARE for TRUTH proposal struggles to strengthen the fight against the overwhelming wave of anti-gypsyism through empowering both the leadership and change-actors at local level in Roma communities to counteract to disinformation as generator of anti-Roma attitudes and prejudices in Bulgaria, by: • Developing methodology and building digital/media literacy and skills of 80 key change-players to detect and challenge disinformation and anti-Roma discourse; • Expanding the capacity to challenge anti-Roma disinformation with at least 1400 Roma people, and 1000 children reached out by a school-based model. • Proposing strategic national policy measures against anti-gypsyism in the context of detecting disinformation and fake news under the new Roma Integration Strategy after 2020. • Empowering 15 strong Roma speakers and overcoming the Roma absence in media and public debates on anti-gypsyism. Project interventions: (a) Elaboration of resources for challenging anti-Roma disinformation - research, 3 guidebooks and evidencebased report (WP2); (b) Capacity building of 60 Roma leaders and mediators; and 20 teachers through 7 trainings and consolidating a Roma multipliers network (WP3); (c) Community outreach through on-site workshops with 600 local activists and NGOs, coaching sessions with 200 health/labour mediators; community meetings with 600 Roma, piloting a school-based model for reaching children (WP4); (d) Advocacy and dissemination activities (WP5). Key project results & impact are expected in: • Empowerment of Roma community through the invested capacity in Roma leadership - the 60 change-players, the created critical mass of 800 new potential multipliers and the progressing consolidation of the Roma Standing Conference; • Strengthening the Roma-led response to anti-gypsyism by the promoted policy response – national strategic measures against anti-gypsyism, and by the new Roma speakers, addressing the macro-society for dethroning anti-Roma myths and fake news.

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