| 01. Social inclusion strategies for the Dublin Region |
| Development of regional Dublin-wide strategies. These include, for example, a comprehensive Employment & Skills Strategy, a strategy for ICT inclusion, joint social policy initiatives with the Dublin Regional Authority, piloting of innovative projects across Dublin partnership areas, building the capacity of the social economy, joint policy development with other regional, national and European networks (e.g. European Anti-Poverty Network, Eurocities, MetropolisNet, Social Polis, etc.), and interacting with policy forums such as the National Economic and Social Council (NESC), the Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise Trade and Employment, the National Employment Action Plan process, DG Employment at the European Commission etc. |
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Dublin Employment & Skills Strategy |
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Supporting Voluntary Activity |
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Dublin Strategy for Social Enterprise |
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DEP Dissemination Work |
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Social Inclusion Policy Networks |
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| 02. Integrated labour market initiatives in Dublin |
| Targeting disadvantage and inequalities in the labour market in both policy and practice, through practical programmes such as Equal at Work (2004-07). This programme involved 55 partner organisations from the public, private and community sectors across the Dublin region, and aimed to widen labour market access by tackling barriers in existing recruitment,advancement and human resource management practices. It has since won EU and national acclaim as a model of its kind. |
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Equal at Work: access to employment through open HR systems |
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Integration of New Communities |
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European Project Applications |
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DIGNITY – interventions for victims of sex-trafficking in Ireland |
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Dublin Community ICT Initiative |
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SeniorForce: Mobility for Older Workers in the EU |
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| 03. Enhancing community sector capacity in Dublin |
| Networking local development and local enterprise initiatives to increase entrepreneurial activity and enterprise (self employment) development among disadvantaged communities. Also, promoting social finance and the social enterprise sector. |
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Community Sector Employers’ Forum (CSEF) |
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Dublin Partnership Learning Network |
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| 04. Innovative Education and Skill initiatives in Dublin |
| Networking local education actors to define the key issues, and developing and implementing activities promoting educational participation, particularly in relation to early school leavers in employment, former prisoners, etc. Also, developing models of good practice through pilot projects in the area of upskilling of low- skilled workers. The major programmes of DEP under this heading in 2008 were Learning at Work and Skills for Work, which, with the support of FÁS, Dept. Education, the VECs and six local partnerships, successfully reached over 700 low-skilled workers across a range of employments, assisting them to upskill to FETAC levels 5-6. |
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Learning @ Work |
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Skills for Work |
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Archive: Innovative activities 1998-2004 |
Research programmes, policy development initiatives, mainstream and pilot projects carried out through Dublin Employment Pact over this period can be accessed here: |
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