KILDARE WICKLOW EQUAL

Development Partnership

• Rural development Agencies – Leader

• Wicklow Working Together

• Action South Kildare

• Arklow Community Enterprise

• County Enterprise Boards

• Wicklow Information Network

• Government Agencies

OBJECTIVES

• Address known barriers to employment

• Enhance labour supply quality by– Audit of skills shortage among employers– Assessment of needs of target beneficiaries

• Build base of local training providers

• Create awareness of needs

• Training around equality / descrimination

• Identify and adopt models of best practice

STRTEGY

• Rely on community groups to promote process

• Integration of existing services with new innovative actions and programmes

• Complimented by mainstreaming initiatives

IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY

• Skills/Needs audit of target beneficiaries

• Audit of employers needs

• Establish dedicated team of job coaches

• Marketing and promotion of DP

• Community outreach consultations

• Audit of existing services

• Training trainers from target group

IMPLEMENTING STRATEGY

• Employing ICT to enhance delivery• Transnational Co-operation• Identify best practice models• Pre-employment interventions• Tailored training• Identify paths to progression• Continuing education• Mentors• Supporting employers with HRM resources

ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES

• New base of trainers/facilitators• Support mechanisms• People empowered to want change• Increased employability• Employers with better skilled workforce• Employers with better understanding of

workforce• Inward investment

INNOVATION

• Just in Time training• Local communities become trainers• Develop local Training Access Points• Creation of interactive ICT• Fast-tracking of in-work bnefits• Wheels to work programme• Pooling of knlwledge, skills and HR

resources among agencies

Client Centred Approach