Local Economic and Community Plans LECP | Guidelines 2021
Strategic issues can rarely be addressed by targeting one action area alone. This issue of unemployment, for example, is likely to require actions related to economic development, education and training, employment services, activation policy, infrastructure provision, marketing and employer support. It is important, therefore, that a collaborative approach be taken to the way in which a particular objective is delivered. Following the identification of High-Level Goals in the socio-economic statement, the LCDC should extend the socio-economic analysis on which this is based and identify a number of Sustainable Community Objectives (SCOs) aimed at enhancing the quality of life and well-being of communities in a manner consistent with the overall regional and local planning frameworks. To underpin this analysis, the LCDC should map and profile local service provision. The expected output is a socio-economic profile of the LCDC area; a map of key local service provision within the LCDC area e.g. services operated by HSE, DSP Intreo offices, etc., as well as services provided by voluntary bodies; a range of sustainable community objectives to be included in the LECP framework. This process should also consider priority actions to be included in the initial Implementation Plan. In identifying the SCOs, LCDC members, particularly delivery bodies/agencies, will do the following:- come together to capture the key strategic issues for the community sector in moving from the current situation to the goals set out in the socio-economic statement. It would be helpful to cluster these issues under each of the High-Level Goals identified in stage one. Consultation should take place with delivery bodies/agencies not on the LCDC in terms of identifying key strategic issues; in the context of the High-Level Goals for the LECP, the LCDC members will agree specific objectives required to drive the sector towards the realisation of the vision. These objectives should seek to address the key strategic issues (to which they should be cross referenced) and enable the goals for the sector to be met. This section should also describe the key stake-holding communities/ groups/societal sectors etc. targeted as beneficiaries by each specific objective;
as part the LECP framework development process the desired outcomes for the identified objectives over the lifetime of the LECP should be included in the LECP framework. The specific actions to support the achievement of these objectives and the realisation of the outcomes form part of the Implementation Plans; and as the first Implementation Plan will form part of the LECP framework development process members should agree highest priority actions and interventions necessary to contribute to the achievement of the specific objectives for the sector, with responsibilities for actions assigned to the relevant delivery body/agency. These actions will form the key elements of various operational plans of the delivery bodies/agencies. These actions should clearly demonstrate:- identified need based on a needs analysis of named target groups and/or disadvantaged areas; a targeted approach to named target groups and/or disadvantaged areas; actions that are specific, are within a defined timeframe time-horizon and have measurable outputs and outcomes; how they contribute to the achievement of the identified objectives;
measurable impact on named target groups and/or disadvantages areas; value for money and the elimination of duplication; provision of complementary funding (public, private); and that they are sustainable.
Once the actions have been agreed the members should then identify the outputs, outcomes and impacts for each community objective to be included in the community elements of the LECP. See logic model below as an example of how to identify these.
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