One Roma youth who was unemployed decided to start up his own business opening a café.
Most of the beneficiaries were satisfied with the support received by the mentor and the stakeholders of the CSA. The difficulties found during the implementation of their individual plans were mainly related to the lack of appropriate financial instruments for funding new enterprises, lack of European financial resources being at the end of the program period, and the high cost for renting and buying land for those who wanted start their own enterprise in the agricultural sector. Results and follow up for CSA The CSA partners were very satisfied with the piloting phase results, especially those achieved by the beneficiaries. The Governance model was very inclusive; in fact some companies were included in the CSA, even if they joined at a later stage the group. The CSA was well structured and the division of tasks well balanced among partners. To have assigned a leading role in the coordination of the activities to an NGO was definitely a good decision. In fact, the Indi Roma 97 Foundation played a very important role in making links between Institutions and Companies and beneficiaries. For the future, the CSA partners foresee to replicate this Governance model in order to build effective measures to fight and even prevent unemployment.
1.3.5
CSA in Action: Belfast, Northern Ireland
The territory
The Province of Northern Ireland is a region of the United Kingdom and is unique in that it shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland. This geographical circumstance has an important impact on Northern Ireland where all-Island cooperation is as important for Northern Ireland’s economy as is its relationship with the rest of the UK. Northern Ireland traditionally had an industrial economy, most notably in shipbuilding, rope manufacture and textiles but there has been a dramatic shift in manufacturing priorities, with the decline of traditional industries at the expense of high-tech, capital-intensive industries. The population count of the region is 1.804.833 inhabitants. As for the unemployment rate, in the period January-March 2013 it was estimated at 8.1%. As a starting point in designing the CSA in Action, the partnership looked to deprivation measures to highlight areas of identified need. The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure (NIMDM) 2010 comprises seven domains of deprivation, each developed to measure a distinct form or type of deprivation. The NIMDM 2010 is a combination of all seven deprivation domains, weighted as follows: Income deprivation 20%. Employment deprivation 25%. 22
