Digital Agenda Funding

Project Status: Completed

Project Leader: Colm Mc Colgan

EU Programme: PEACE II

Project Budget: €700,000

Start Date: Jul, 2004

Finish Date: Dec, 2007

The aim of the project is to:

To identify the public services in most need of policy, legislative and process changes, so as to facilitate the social, economical and cultural integration of the communities living on both sides of the border.

Specific objectives are to:

Evaluate the public service needs of communities and people living and working within the crossborder area.
Provide a more integrated public service response, on a crossborder basis, to the needs of these communities.
Exploration of the service delivery plans of the public service delivery agencies on both sides of the border.
Promote Crossborder mechanisms to build trust between different agencies on both sides of the border and their respective management and staff mechanisms.
Provide support to public agencies to better understand the service environment, clients, business processes and challenges, on a crossborder basis, of the other agencies in the project.
Identify statutory and operational limitations to joint service delivery.
Identify the areas where crossborder public service co-operation can occur to address crossborder mobility issues.

Donegal, Ireland
ERNACT Network(Lead Partner)

Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom
Derry City & Strabane District Council(Partner)

Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom
Western Health and Social Care Trust(Partner)

Derry & Strabane, United Kingdom
CAWT(Associate)

Donegal, Ireland
Donegal County Council(Partner)

Donegal, Ireland
Dept. of Social & Family Affairs(Associate)

Leitrim, Ireland

North Western Health Board (Associate)

Limavady, United Kingdom

Limavady Borough Council (Associate)

The overall aim of this project is to evaluate the use of egovernment models for the delivery of public services to crossborder communities on both sides of the border.