Local Groups Eligible For New ER 1.2m Combat Poverty Agency Grants Scheme
Published 19/03/2002

The Combat Poverty Agency has announced details of a new EUR 1.2million grants scheme for locally based community and voluntary groups. The scheme, 'Working Against Poverty', will run over three years from 2002 - 2004 and is designed to assist these groups contribute to policy formulation on anti-poverty issues. Announcing details of the scheme, Ms Helen Johnston, Director of Combat Poverty, said: "Community and voluntary groups learn a great deal from their work about how best to tackle poverty. Their experience and expertise has a lot to offer policy makers seeking to tackle the causes and effects of poverty."

A survey of previous grant schemes during 1999-2001 shows that over 230 grants were issued to local community and voluntary groups in the period. Combat Poverty is keen to encourage more applications from, and allocations of grants to various counties. The scheme, worth ER 380,000 per annum in total, funds four types of activities:

• Training and skills development: Groups can train members in the skills needed to understand how public policy is made and how they might contribute to it.
• Conferences, seminars and publications on policy making issues
• Research on poverty and evaluation of actions taken to deal with it
•Policy analysis and promotion in order to help groups contribute effectively to policy debate.

Combat Poverty assesses each grant application on its relevance to poverty, potential to influence policy debate, realistic costings and time scale, clarity, and appropriate research and evaluation methods. The grant can be used by the group to do the work itself, or to contract an expert to assist them to do the work.

The deadline for applications for the first round of grants is March 27th. Grants brochures and information on the scheme are available from Combat Poverty at their website www.cpa.ie or by telephone 6026625.

 

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