Agency Description:
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Inishowen Partnership Company (IPC), which is one of thirty-eight similar partnerships throughout the country, was established in February 1996 to administer a programme of integrated local development in the Inishowen Peninsula and is currently responsible for the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme of the National Development Plan. Other complementary programmes with which IPC are involved and which help to combat social and economic disadvantage throughout the peninsula include:
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The Millennium Education Fund - Jobs Club
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EVEN Enterprise Development Programme -Jobs Initiative
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Social Economy Programme - CAIT II
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Traditional Skills Programme - STEPS FARSET - INISHOWEN
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Cross Border Initiative -SPRYTE
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Low Income Smallholders Initiative - Opportunities for Farm Families
The Mission Statement adopted by the Company is to put in place a support framework which offers members of the target groups the opportunity to influence and participate in economic, social and community activities on offer while attempting to ensure that these activities are comparable with those on offer anywhere else in the State. This is done under three specific measures, Services for the Unemployed, Community Development and Community Based Youth Initiatives.
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