Invitation to launch: 'Towards a Progressive Model of Collaborative Governance: A Community Platform Discussion Paper'

Invitation to launch: ‘Towards a Progressive Model of Collaborative Governance: A Community Platform Discussion Paper’

Tuesday 4th October 2022 @ 11:30am to 1:30pm

The Oak Room, The Mansion House, Dublin 2

• The Discussion Paper will be launched by: Joe O’Brien, Minister of State for Community Development and Charities.

The launch will provide an opportunity for people from sectors across civil society to respond to and discuss proposals from the Paper with a view to developing a more effective and inclusive model for how civil society and Government work together to address the challenges that face our society such as poverty, housing, care and climate change.

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Towards A Progressive Model of Collaborative Governance: A Community Platform Discussion Paper proposes a new model for strengthening how those most impacted and all sectors can work together more effectively to address a number of major long-term challenges our society faces such as housing, care, poverty and the climate transition. The failure of successive Governments to properly address these challenges has resulted in deepening inequalities and hardship for many people in our society, particularly for those living on low incomes and from the most marginalised communities.
The Community Platform believes that unless the Government improves and strengthens the ways it currently engages with civil society and those most impacted by the different challenges it will continue to fail to find workable and effective solutions to existing and new challenges.
Towards A Progressive Model of Collaborative Governance has been developed by the Community Platform after a process of discussion and reflection on national and international experience.

The Community Platform:

The Community Platform is an alliance of 31 national networks and organisations in the community and voluntary sector working to address poverty, social exclusion and inequality. The members of the Community Platform members are:
• Age Action Ireland
• All Together in Dignity (ATD) Ireland
• Community Action Network
• Community Work Ireland
• Cairde
• Debt and Development Coalition
• European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland
• Family Resource Centre National Forum • Focus Ireland
• Immigrant Council of Ireland
• Independent Living Movement Ireland
• Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed
• Irish Penal Reform Trust
• Irish Refugee Council
• Irish Rural Link • Safe Ireland
• Irish Traveller Movement
• Migrant Rights Centre Ireland
• National Adult Literacy Agency
• National Traveller Women’s Forum
• National Women’s Council
• One Family
• Pavee Point • Rape Crisis Network Ireland
• Sign Language Interpreting Service
• Simon Communities of Ireland
• TASC
• Threshold
• Treoir
• Women’s Aid
• Women’s Collective Ireland

c/o EAPN Ireland, Carmichael House 4 North Brunswick Street Dublin 7; Phone: 353 (0)1 8745737
Email: [email protected] Website: www.communityplatform.ie