Stakeholder Engagement
Ó An Roinn Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige
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Ó An Roinn Leanaí, Comhionannais, Míchumais, Lánpháirtíochta agus Óige
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The Reform Project Team, and DCEDIY, have committed to undertaking meaningful and ongoing engagement with project stakeholders. This commitment was borne out by the preliminary engagement undertaken with primary stakeholders in the pre project phase (detailed below). The Project Team’s engagement initially focused on the two group most impacted by proposed reforms: children and young people and the current funded organisations. It is the Project Team’s intention to maintain its active and attentive engagement ethos throughout the reform project.
The reform of the YSGS will involve significant change and will require a carefully designed change management process. The Project Team undertook an extensive stakeholder analysis, identifying and assessing all stakeholders associated with the reform of the YSGS. From these efforts a comprehensive Communications Plan was designed. This plan outlines in detail how and how often the Project Team intends to engage with each stakeholder group.
Prior to the implementation of the YSGS Reform Project, extensive engagement was carried out with the Youth Services Grant Schemes primary stakeholders: the voluntary youth work sector and young people.
The first stage of the preliminary engagement with participating National Youth Organisations was an online consultation event. Some 42 individuals representing 28 organisations who currently receive the youth service grant attended this consultation.
After the online consultation, DCEDIY invited the 30 organisations to complete an online survey. This was completed by 22 organisations. The aim of this survey was to explore themes identified in the online consultation
The findings of these two phases of engagement were combined into a single report.
In phase 3 of this preliminary engagement stage, submissions were sought from both current YSGS recipients and wider stakeholders, in order to give the opportunity for comprehensive feedback on the ongoing reform. Identified external stakeholders were invited to make submissions, while an open call was put out for submissions from any interested party.
In total 25 organisations made written submissions with 21 coming from current YSGS participating organisations. Additionally, submissions were received from Ability West, Leargas, Pobal and Tusla.
Again, the findings from these submissions were collated into a single report, to be published in Q3, 2022.
As children and young people are the ultimate beneficiaries of youth work, and in accordance with the recommendations of the National Participation Framework, the YSGS-Reform Project Team conducted meaningful engagement with this key stakeholder cohort at an early stage in the reform process.
Supported by the National Participation Office (NPO) and a Youth Advisory Group (YAG) convened specifically for this purpose, DCEDIY designed a bespoke engagement methodology to obtain input from children and young people on the reform of the YSGS.
After an initial consultation design phase, three consultations were held. Twenty-five young people from across Ireland were subsequently recruited, via Comhairle na nÓg and the National Youth Organisations, to participate in one of three online consultations which were held in November 2021. The outputs from these consultations were compiled into a report, to be published Q3 2022, and used to inform the final set of deliverables for the project.