Written answers
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs
Community Development
5:00 pm
Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 210: To ask the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if he will circulate the new programme as presented by the centre for effective services on community development projects; the plans if partnerships are unwilling to align with CDPs; and when the performance review of CDPs will be completed and published. [43481/09]
John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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I refer the Deputy to Question No. 104 of 17 November 2009.
The outline of the new Programme has been circulated to stakeholders and a copy is attached to this reply. This may be subject to some minor changes.
I am committed to the new programme and to implementing it in the best possible way. My Department will engage positively and constructively with all stakeholders in this process.
Q = quantitative; q = qualitative.
| AIM |
| The Local and Community Development Programme aims to tackle poverty and social exclusion through partnership and constructive engagement between Government and people in disadvantaged communities |
| Goal 1 | Objectives | Outcomes | Example indicators | Example activities |
| Promote awareness, knowledge and uptake of a wide range of statutory, voluntary and community services | 1.Raise awareness and knowledge of services in the local community | 1. Increased awareness, knowledge and willingness to use services | 1. Increase in awareness of services in local area Q | Joint strategy to tackle identified local issue, e.g. joy-ridingOlder people's health initiativeOne stop information shopsStatutory voluntary and community services network |
| 2. Develop and sustain strategies and mechanisms for improved access to local services | 2. Increased uptake of a wide range of services within local communities | 2. Increase in understanding of what local services do or provide Q and q | ||
| 3. Develop and sustain strategies and mechanisms to better co-ordinate local services | 3. Increased and improved joint planning and delivery between local service providers | 3. Improvement in quality of joint planning q | ||
| 4. Increased incidence of joint delivery Q | ||||
| 5. Increase in use of local services Q |
| AIM |
| The Local and Community Development Programme aims to tackle poverty and social exclusion through partnership and constructive engagement between Government and people in disadvantaged communities |
| Goal 2 | Objectives | Outcomes | Example indicators | Example activities |
| Increase access to formal and informal educational, recreational and cultural activities and resources | 1. Work with providers to improve access to a wide range of opportunities | 1. Increased accessibility of educational, recreational and cultural activities | 1. Increase in number of accessible educational, recreational and cultural activities available to local people Q | Breakfast clubs and after school projectsIntercultural groupsCommunity arts and recreational activitiesEducation fairs |
| 2. Increase awareness and support access to opportunities for learning and development | 2. Increased uptake of a wide range of educational, recreational and cultural activities | 2. Increase in number of residents participating in local educational, recreational and cultural activities Q & q | ||
| 3. Increase in number of new participants in local educational, recreational and cultural activities Q & q | ||||
| AIM |
| The Local and Community Development Programme aims to tackle poverty and social exclusion through partnership and constructive engagement between Government and people in disadvantaged communities |
| Goal 3 | Objectives | Outcomes | Example indicators | Example activities |
| Increase in people's work readiness and employment prospects | 1.Develop and sustain a range of services to support, prepare and assist people to enter the labour market | 1. People are better prepared for the labour market | 1. Increase in number of local residents attending and participating in local activities designed to improve preparation for work Q & q | One to one supportJob clubs and enterprise centresWork experience and placementsUpskilling, training and mentoringLocal jobs fair |
| 2. Develop and sustain strategies with local enterprises to increase local employment prospects | 2. Local strategy in place to develop local employment prospects | 2. Increase in numbers of new participants in activities designed to improve preparation for work Q | ||
| 3. Improved employer perceptions of the employability of local people q | ||||
| 4. Increase in numbers of local residents feeling prepared for work Q & q | ||||
| 5. Increase in strategies and initiatives by local employers to enhance employment prospects Q |
| AIM |
| The Local and Community Development Programme aims to tackle poverty and social exclusion through partnership and constructive engagement between Government and people in disadvantaged communities |
| Goal 4 | Objectives | Outcomes | Example indicators | Example activities |
| Promote engagement with policy, practice and decision making processes on matters affecting local communities | 1.Promote dialogue between funders, providers and local communities | 1. Effective structures and processes in place for dialogue between policy makers, providers and local communities | 1. Increase in mechanisms promoting information sharing and dialogue effectively Q | Support for community forumsEstablishing new groups around issuesCommunity leadership programmeYouth participation projectDebates, visiting speakers, political literacy programmesVolunteer training |
| 2. Develop and sustain opportunities for communities of place and interest to identify issues and voice concerns | 2. Greater engagement in policy and decision making processes by the community | 2. Increase in number and diversity of local people participating effectively ion local committees and other decision-making forums Q | ||
| 3. Improved understanding of local community concerns and priorities by policy makers and service providers | 3. Increase in perceptions of local groups and residents of greater engagement Q | |||
| 4. Increase in number and range of local service providers participating in local community fora Q | ||||
| 5. Increase in understanding of local issues by policy makers and service providers Q | ||||
| 6. Increase in local people's understanding of policy, practice and decisions making-processes q |
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