DICP
Dublin Inner City Partnership is an independent local development company operating to a brief of responding to long-term unemployment and socioeconomic disadvantage in inner city Dublin. The Partnership opposes all forms of poverty, discrimination and exclusion, and promotes the participation of the resident community in the regeneration of their locality. It aims to enhance the quality of life for all inner city residents who experience deprivation and disadvantage by reinforcing their individual rights to work, education and adequate income.
Background
DICP is an area-based partnership company, set up in 1991 under the Programme for Economic and Social Progress (PESP). Twelve such partnerships were established around the country at that time in areas of acute disadvantage, and all were given a brief of targeting long-term unemployment. Following evaluation, the programme was expanded to the present number of 38 partnerships, each promoting regeneration according to the local needs of their immediate catchment areas. The partnership approach involves a collaboration of community, statutory and private sectors.
Operating Principles
- Any investment or programme supported by the Partnership must have direct benefit for those residents of the inner city who are without work, experiencing poverty or in low income households.
- Our resources and efforts will be targeted at those in greatest need within the inner city and will aim to ensure sustainable benefit to local residents.
- The underlying value of the partnership approach is to achieve equality of treatment, access and opportunity for inner city residents who have experienced exclusion from social and economic local development.
- The Partnership will encourage participation by residents in local programmes, organisational structures and activity and will oppose discrimination and compulsion.
- We will provide means for transparency in local decision-making by ensuring accountability in the allocation, use and deployment of resources and funding and by identifying the intended beneficiaries.
last updated: May 02, 2006
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