Sharing this Space – the Fund’s strategy 2006 – 2010
The mission of the International Fund for Ireland is to underpin efforts towards peace by promoting social and economic advance and encouraging contact, dialogue and reconciliation between nationalists and unionists throughout Ireland.
In January 2006, the International Fund for Ireland launched a five-year strategy called: "Sharing this Space" which marked a significant shift in emphasis for the Fund, moving its focus away from economic regeneration to reconciliation. The Fund now places particular emphasis on the following objectives:
- help to build and realise the vision of a shared future in Northern Ireland and the southern border counties;
- promote understanding between the different communities;
- work with those communities suffering the greatest economic and social deprivation, using economic concerns as a platform to build stronger relations with their neighbours;
- facilitate more integration between the communities;
- deal with the problems of the economically inactive and long-term unemployed;
- build strong strategic alliances with other agencies and bodies active on the ground, ensuring that efforts are complementary, sustainable and mutually reinforcing;
- ensure the long-term continuation of its work in Ireland beyond the lifetime of the Fund; and
- share the expertise and learning acquired over the past three decades with peace builders in other regions.
The strategy aims to make the Fund more flexible and responsive to the evolving and complex environment in which it works, while retaining its strong focus on reconciliation. It will enable the Fund to target the areas of greatest need, to ensure that its work is sustainable in the long-term and to celebrate 25 years of international engagement with peace in Ireland.
To read the Sharing this Space strategy document in full, please click here.
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