CWI/EAPN Ireland Preparatory Workshops

The Social Inclusion Forum (SIF) is part of the Government’s structures to monitor and evaluate the

State’s strategy to address poverty and achieve social inclusion. The Roadmap for Social Inclusion

2020 – 2025 is the current strategy. The Social Inclusion Forum is held annually to provides an

opportunity for wider public consultation and discussion on poverty and social inclusion issues and the

implementation of the strategy, in particular for people experiencing poverty and social exclusion and

the organisations/groups that work with them. The Forum also provides an opportunity for engagement

between officials from Government Departments, community and voluntary organisations and people

experiencing poverty.

Social Inclusion Forum (SIF) 2025 will be held on Thursday 8^th May in Corke Park

Title for SIF 2025: Reflecting on the Past and Informing the Future of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion.

Each year the Department of Social Protection selects a number of thematic areas which will be the

focus of the workshops at the Forum each year. This year, the focus is on:

SIF 2025 will also provide an important opportunity to engage with the Government’s consultation of

developing a successor strategy to the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020 – 2025.

CWI & EAPN Ireland Preparatory Workshops

Community Work Ireland (CWI) and the European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN) Ireland collaborate

annually to organise a series of workshops to support participation at the Social Inclusion Forum and

to and provide the opportunity for civil society, communities and stakeholders, and in particular people

affected by poverty and the organisations working with them, to discuss the issues. Each workshop will

provide an overview of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion and will focus on the thematic areas that are

the focus of SIF 2025. Feedback from the workshops will be presented at the Plenary session of SIF 2025.

Registration is now open for two online and two regional in-person Preparatory Workshops, hosted by

CWI and EAPN Ireland. each of the online workshops will cover two themes, and each in-person

workshop will cover all thematic areas.

EAPN Ireland and CWI would like to encourage people with direct experience of issues that emerge

from the workshops to participate in person at SIF 2025. A small budget will be available to support

the participation costs of a number of participants in the workshops from unfunded or under-funded

groups and unwaged individuals to attend SIF 2025. Further information will be available at the workshops.

PREPARATORY WORKSHOPS