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A project by Office for Foreign Affairs

More inclusion through education, employment and housing in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Women, young people and minorities, such as the Roma, are among the most disadvantaged population groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina. With an unemployment rate of over 45%, they are socially marginalised and affected by poverty. For Roma young people aged between 18 and 24, the unemployment rate is as high as 80%.

With its project, Caritas Switzerland plans to provide around 2‘240 people from the affected minorities in the municipalities of Bijeljina and Kakanj with improved access to education, employment and housing by 2025. The project is based on an integrated approach: it aims to enable people to generate their own income in the long term by promoting education, improving cooperation in the communities and strengthening autonomy.

It is particularly encouraging that the project is being supported and co-financed at the local level by the municipalities and private investors, as well as the Bosnian Ministry for Human Rights and Refugees.

Project goals

Social inclusion at all levels of education and in vocational training.

Enabling close cooperation with local authorities and involving the private sector to create sustainable and socially insured jobs.

Empowering target groups through a community building approach to collaborate in a more structured way, to articulate their needs and interests more effectively to the administration and politicians and to assert their basic constitutional rights.