Anti-Poverty Action Plan Initiation Meeting
Following a Council Poverty motion, Derry City & Strabane District Council is facilitating a series of meetings designed to identify actions that will help provide pathways out of poverty and reduce the levels of poverty within our Council area.
Over the past two years the Council has been working with local support organisations to design interventions to alleviate hardship and provide immediate albeit temporary support to people in need, based on the available budgets to Council. During the most recent engagement with local support organisations, a broad consensus emerged on the desire to have further collaborations with the objective of identifying and prioritising interventions which prevent people from getting into poverty and for those in poverty a route out of it.
The first meeting will focus on
- Achieving a shared understanding of the context for the development of anti-poverty action plan;
- Proving insight into the current socio-economic challenges and opportunities;
- Achieving a commitment to engage and share learning on the emerging priorities of the anti-poverty action plan.
Following a number of presentations, participants will be invited to discuss and debate the current challenges. This debate will inform the next steps in developing actions to help prevent poverty.
When: Friday 1st March 9:30am - 12:00pm
Where: Guildhall, Derry