Local Economic and Community Plans LECP | Guidelines 2021
LCDCS and LECPs The Act confers responsibility for the preparation, adoption and implementation of the community elements of the LECP on the LCDC. This includes either direct implementation or oversight of implementation in partnership with other relevant stakeholder. In the context of developing and implementing the community elements of the LECP the role and function of LCDCs is to: Bring a stronger focus on local and community development, firstly in terms of setting jointly agreed local and community development goals and objectives that the key public funded agencies and bodies will work collaboratively to achieve, and secondly in terms of promoting local and community development interventions as fundamental contributions to the development of the LCDC administrative area generally. Take a strategic view of public-funded interventions and supports at local level for the purpose of co-ordinating them in a way that meets the High-Level Goals of the LECP. This should include the examination of both current and potential funding streams, as well as funding pressures across the area, and exploring how the outcomes that matter to communities and citizens can be achieved as budgets change and contract. Bring all the relevant public-funded agencies bodies together to target their resources in a way that delivers on the high-level LECP goals generally and the community objectives and actions specifically. These resources will include: a) resources directly under the management responsibility of the LCDC including, for example the Social Inclusion Activation Programme (SICAP) and the Community Enhancement Programme (CEP);
b) resources under the direct management and oversight responsibility of LCDC partners, for example those local and community development resources managed directly by Local Authorities, HSE, Education and Training Boards (ETBs), Department of Social Protection (DSP), Local Development Companies (LDCs) etc.; and c) resources under the direct management of other public-funded local development agencies and bodies who may not be represented on LCDCs including for example, Children and Young Peoples Services Committees (CYPSCs), Traveller Interagency Groups (TIGs), Drugs Task Forces (DTFs), Family Resource Centres (FRCs), other Community Development Projects and bodies, etc. Consultation The community elements of the LECP should be developed in a collaborative, consultative and participative way, affording key stakeholders the opportunity to contribute in a meaningful way. Local communities, organisations, stakeholders and the public in general should have the opportunity to see where their interests, needs and opportunities are reflected in the LECP. There will be consultation on the preparation of the socio-economic statement, covering both the economic and community elements of the LECP. Further consultations on the community elements of the draft should be carried out, once this draft has been prepared under the guidance of the Advisory Steering Group but before it is submitted to the Municipal Districts and Regional Assemblies for consideration. The approach at this stage will be largely a matter for local determination, but there should be a strong focus on stakeholder, community and citizen participation and a process that is open to all.
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