Key Principles for Preparing the DCSD Community Plan

1. Key Principles for Preparing the DCSD Community Plan • Integration – Social, Economic, Environmental Well-being focused on outcomes and people centred delivery. • Whole System Approach – Civic & Community Leadership, Partnership Working, Participation & Engagement, Transparency & Openness, Equality & Diversity. • Robust evidence base – Identification of real rather than perceived need allowing targeted interventions to bring about measured improvements and support ongoing monitoring and evaluation of impacts.

3. Proposed Thematic Groups Social Well-being • Community Development • Early Intervention Economic Well-being • Entrepreneurship, Enterprise & Competitiveness • Education & Skills Environmental Well-being • Physical Regeneration • Health & Well-being • Tourism, Arts & Culture • Infrastructure, Energy & Transport

4. Proposed Thematic Groups • Support the preparation of the Community Plan. • Increase participation and collaboration. • Participants bring experience, expertise, knowledge and willingness to work for the betterment of their local community. • Largely 3 main functions: • Identify the needs, challenges & inequalities. • Identify current provision of public, private & community services – What is working well. • Identify strategic priorities and key actions to achieve agreed outcomes.

5. Process So Far…. • July 2014  c. 130 people attended a workshop on the introduction to Community Planning. • September 2014  c. 130 attended a workshop on how we might go about preparing a Community Plan. • November 2014  Community Plan Task and Finish Group • Advise on evidence gathering methodology • Consider an overall framework for a community plan and the process for developing it • Co-design the 3rd workshop for all stakeholders – February 2015 • November 2014  Commence statistical baseline: Establishing the evidence base

6. Robust Evidence Base Establishing Baseline Position: • Collation of official statistics • Citizen Survey 2015 • Questionnaire – 1400 households • Focus Groups (including Section 75 groups)

7. Collation and interpretation of official data sources • A lot of these data are available for our local areas. • We want to compile them and see how the situation has changed in preceding years and set down a marker to help direct and assess the effectiveness of the Community Plan going forward. • Work with stakeholders to fully understand what the data are telling us in the light of local knowledge. • This collation of data is only one part of the process.

8. Citi-scope Survey and Citizen Survey Citi-scope survey 2009 and 2012 Underlying Principles: • Inclusivity • Openness • Transparency • Strong stakeholder involvement • Best Practice • Apply these principals to 2015 Citizen survey across the new Derry City and Strabane District Council area

9. 2015 Citizen Survey • Citizen Survey in early 2015. • 1,400 households, randomly selected across the new Council area. • Recruitment of enumerators – community based approach – training and capacity building – long term positive impact. • Survey will ask questions not necessarily collected by official sources. • An attempt to ‘fill in the gaps’.

10. How Citizen Survey feeds into Community Plan Community Plan

11. Outcomes/Delivers • Comprehensive 360oreview • Broad based information data set • Stakeholder Buy-in • Context of need/where we are so that we can determine where we want to be