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The DEP Innovative Projects Programme 1999-2002 |
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Circles of Opportunity: A Review of Projects Supported
through the Innovative Programme of the Dublin Employment Pact 1999-2001
In one of its first initiatives, the DEP Innovative Projects Programme
acted as a "test bed" for innovative approaches to tackling unemployment
and development issues. Many proposals were developed by partner organisations
of the Pact and of these twelve were selected. Funding of over €1
million was secured under the EU Local Urban and Rural Development (LURD)
programme to co-fund their development. The result was a truly amazing
range of innovative initiatives, ranging from training, educational access,
information for employers, a schools enterprise skills programme, a women's
enterprise fund, estate self-management/employment initiative, upskilling
Traveller women, creating childcare networks and researching area-based
employment strategies.
All the selected pilot projects have gone on to develop as substantial
programmes in their own right, either locally or on a Dublin-wide basis.
Some have developed as the basis for programmes now mainstreamed at a
national level. This publication provides a comprehensive review of the
twelve projects selected under the initiative and examines how they have
developed since.
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