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Status
Received: on time
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Income
£0.0K
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Spending
£53.9K
Public benefits
The benefits are Enhanced knowledge and understanding of the role of a Member of the Legislative Assembly, competencies to become a more effective elected official, legislative competency and increased capacity to meet the needs of constituents. Enhanced knowledge and skills to be an effective decision-maker. Enhanced knowledge and understanding
across under-represented groups, to include young people and women. Strengthening democracy and engaging people in creating a better future for all. Improved community life through increasing capacity and representation of marginalised groups, to include youth, community, voluntary and third sector groups. Enhanced sharing of best practice from the Northern Ireland experience as a region emerging from conflict, to post-conflict regions on an international scale. Increased gender equality and gender sensitivity in Northern Ireland. Increased reconciliation and improved conflict resolution. The benefits are demonstrated through attendance at capacity development/training programmes. Increase in cross-party working and collaboration. Cross-party groups e.g. Women’s Caucus. Development and delivery of capacity development programmes. Development and delivery of initiatives to support under-representation of Women. Development and delivery of initiatives to support Young people. Development and implementation of programmes to support local community initiatives in disadvantaged areas. Increased representation of Women in senior decision-making roles, to include in political life, public service delivery, third sector and on Boards. Delivery of International Exchange programmes for elected representatives and public officials in states affected by conflict and instability to share Best Practice in support of advancement of human rights, conflict resolution and reconciliation in regions emerging from conflict. Sharing Best Practice through the development of research and publications. There is no harm arising from the purposes. The beneficiaries are Elected Representatives, Women, Young People, Community organisations / Community and Voluntary Groups to include interface communities, Under-represented communities/groups, to include Women, Youth and minority groups, Parliamentarians and elected representatives from regions emerging from conflict, Overseas/Developing countries. As the Trustees are also MLA's they will equally have access to partake in capacity development training delivered by Politics Plus. However, this is incidental and necessary.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
Politics Plus develop and deliver a range of highly successful programmes. These include stand-alone training sessions on topics such as Scrutiny of Legislation and Effective Questioning, as well as more intensive courses, including our innovative Political Leadership Programme. In addition, Politics Plus have built up a register of expert advisers
who have been carefully selected to work on a one-to-one basis with Members and elected representatives as part of the Experts in Residence Programme. In a bid to fulfil another of our core objectives, strengthening the role of women, Politics Plus have developed and launched various programmes targeted at redressing the gender imbalance in political and public life, including the Women in Politics Leadership Programme, which came to a close in June 2015. We held a Young Female Leaders Academy in October 2015, the aim of which was to inspire young women to explore careers in politics and public life. In addition, the first Women in Public Life Programme, targeted senior level women in civil service and third sector, to ensure they were equipped with the skills for moving forward in their career, and completed in June 2016. Due to the success of the initial programme, Politics Plus have been in a position to roll out another programme which began in March 2016. Furthermore, Politics Plus established the Speaker’s Reference Group on a Gender Sensitive Assembly, alongside the Speaker’s Office, and also established the ground-breaking Northern Ireland Assembly Women’s Parliamentary Caucus. These initiatives, alongside the Think Tanks, support and progress the role of women when they take up their seats as parliamentarians. In order to strengthen the role of young people within the political process, and to continue inspiring the next generation of political leaders, we provide support to the Northern Ireland Members of the UK Youth Parliament in conjunction with the British Council.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of citizenship or community development
Who the charity helps
- Adult training
- Ethnic minorities
- Interface communities
- Overseas/developing countries
- Women
How the charity works
- Cross-border/cross-community
- Education/training
- Gender
- Human rights/equality
