The Foundation Open Society Macedonia administers the Roma Education Program, an Open Society Foundations initiative funded by USAID that has substantially boosted high school graduation rates and college enrollment among Macedonian Roma. The foundation’s broader efforts to promote tolerance and social inclusion have included European Commission financed public education campaigns that celebrate Macedonia’s multicultural heritage.
In collaboration with the Open Society Mental Health Initiative, the foundation has worked with the government to initiate a human rights—based approach to mental health care that phases out institutionalization and helps integrate people with mental disabilities into society.
The foundation is also engaged in multicountry research and education initiatives, such as an assessment of human rights in Croatia and Macedonia relative to EU norms, and a project to create four new history textbooks that use an inclusive, multiethnic approach to pedagogy developed by 60 historians from 11 countries.