RESTART - Resilience, protection and social inclusion of people forcibly displaced from Ukraine, located on the Romanian territory

About this project

<p>The project covers a great need for protection services and social inclusion of people fleeing the war in Ukraine and located in<br> Romania, in 5 locations from 3 regions. These people in situations of maximum vulnerability (traumatized by the war, without<br> resources, with many children in their care or in poor health, with disabilities, victims of sexual abuse and violence) need legal<br> assistance, protection services, as well as direct support for resilience and rebuilding a dignified life in the country that hosts them<br> temporarily. In most cases, they do not have ID papers and documents proving their socio-economic status, which creates<br> difficulties for the access of benefits and social services in Romania. Even when the displaced persons obtain the status of<br> temporary protection, their rights are violated, and their access to social, medical and educational services remains extremely<br> limited. The local authorities fail to offer them services that are sufficiently diversified and adapted to their needs. The project aims<br> to develop support activities, legal assistance and social/economic inclusion for these people, and in parallel to implement advocacy<br> activities and development/promotion of 2 integrated models of intervention in social and humanitarian emergencies. The two<br> proposed models operationalize the concept of social emergency, recently introduced in the revised draft law on social assistance.<br> The concept of social emergency was proposed in 2021 by the members of the Social Platform in Romania and, currently, the same<br> members have the opportunity to propose a set of precise regulations, derived from the practice of the two successive crises, for<br> the generalization of integrated, multisectoral intervention in such situations. The project is carried out in the spirit of social<br> cohesion and social justice, and the vulnerable population in Romania has access to some of the support activities.</p>

Project partners

• Caritas Romania Confederation Project partner· Romania