Edenmore Community Development Project

cozski

There are many Community Development Projects operating all over Ireland http://www.changingireland.ie/CDPabout.html whixh are part of the National Development Plan to address poverty.

The Edenmore Project has a blog and information on their work can be found here http://edenmore.blogspot.com/ so please feel free to take a look and leave any constructive comments.

We are also keen to hear from people who might like to volunteer some time, skills, resources, etc.

Thanks

happytime

any word on mccarthy report cuts will affect CDP's?

44 million euro recommended to be cut...what % of this is total budget for CDP's???? :eek:

cozski

Hard to say with any certainty... there's an 'independent' review of CDP's happening at the mo... but not really independent as it's being carried out by the Centre for Effective Services. We've all had our budgets cut (retrospectively in the last June cut i.e. here's what your real budget is as of Jan 2009) and told to expect further cuts in 2010...

If they can get away with it they'll do a cull I suspect and leave those CDP's that represent best value (however that's measured) and are most likely to tow the line (they may even bring them under some other governance strucutre such as regional partnerships). Cant say I'm surpised or particularly angered... people within the sector have had ample time & opportunity to be pro-active and pre-emptive but I'm afraid the sector doesn't appear to engender that kind of response or lacks credible and effective leadership... but one things for certain and that's that the independence of the community sector is dead in the water and it's probably going to set the sector back 5-10 years. Shame really... all that wealth generated and they seem to have been incapable of allocting and/or distributing it in a sustainable way... Still, one learns, presumably...

http://www.nationalcdf.blogspot.com/