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North West PEACE III Partnership

The North West PEACE III Cluster is one of 14 Peace and Reconciliation partnerships established under Priority 1.1 of the PEACE III Programme ‘Building Positive Relations at the Local Level’. In the North West, the local authority areas of Strabane District Council, Derry City Council and Omagh District Council came together in 2008 to form a Cluster and establish the North West PEACE III Partnership. The Partnership Board has 37 members which include elected members of the councils, social partners and statutory agencies.

Phase I

A Peace and Reconciliation Action Plan for the North West was submitted to the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) in March 2008 and was awarded £4.733m funding to deliver six strategic priorities under Phase I. It is currently being implemented through 60 projects and runs up until 31 March 2011. A brochure on Phase I can be downloaded here:

PEACE III Report April 2010 (Right click on the link, select ‘Save Target As..’ and save the document to your computer)

Phase II

The Phase II Action Plan will run from 1 April 2011 to 31 December 2013. It has been developed by the NW PEACE III Partnership and informed by extensive consultation (25 events, 650 people/organisations) throughout the North West to build on lessons learned during Phase I and identify unmet needs in addressing sectarianism and racism as well as new challenges for Phase II. In response, the Action Plan will be implemented through the following priorities:

Strategic Priority 1: Sharing spaces throughout the North West through celebration of culture, arts, sports, heritage and identity.
Strategic Priority 2: Influencing and sustaining positive attitudes of young people from an early stage and through an inter-generational focus.
Strategic Priority 3: Building capacity to enable and strengthen cross-community and cross border engagement and to address sectarianism and racism in the NW.
Strategic Support Priority: Embedding good relations as an integral part of all projects and programmes and addressing conflict resolution through a responsive and flexible approach that prevents de-stabilisation of good relations.

A summary version of the Action Plan can be downloaded here: