As UNHCR implementing partners within the Project “Social Inclusion: Regional Support to Marginalized Communities”, the organizations Civil Rights Programme, Kosovo, Association “Vasa prava BIH”, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Civil Society Research Centre, Macedonia, Legal Centre, Montenegro, and Praxis, Serbia, have signed a regional MoU in order to formalize and strengthen regional ties ad promote cross-border/boundary cooperation to issues linked to social inclusion of Roma, Ashkali and Eguptians (RAE)  communities and other marginalized groups in the Western Balkans.

The cooperation is aimed at contributing to prevention and reduction of statelessness in the region and reduction of persons at risk of statelessness, which particularly affects the RAE population, especially those displaced during the conflicts in the region. Finally, the cooperation should contribute towards the social inclusion of RAE and other marginalized groups and to their full enjoyment of human rights in the region of the Western Balkans.