This report presents survey data on the situation of Roma, refugees and IDPs in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina (BiH), Bulgaria, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia, including the UN-administered province of Kosovo. It offers a comprehensive and statistically rich picture of the problems vulnerable groups face in the region and puts forward pragmatic, concrete policy advice on what governments, the international community and representatives of vulnerable groups themselves can do to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion.