PEACEPLUS Tender for Dealing with the Past, Contemplating the Future Programme - PEACEPLUS Funded

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council seeks to appoint a suitably qualified organization(s) / individual(s) to help support the process of reconciling divided communities across the Borough and providing a space for people to explore how they can engage and grow within the peace process. The secondary part of the programme is to deliver a series of initial single identity programme opportunities, for both the PUL & CNR communities, to help support and grow their confidence and capacity to start to engage in a positive & successful future for everyone. The tender response must address the following key issues/areas: • Lack of progress in dealing with the past. • Lack of progress in dealing with legacy. • Lack of education and learning about the past. • Gap in provisions in supporting communities to learn from the past and look to the future. • Younger generations feeling unable to engage with the past in a productive way. • Legacy and the past being used as divisive tools within communities. • Provision of methods to be able to explore the past and legacy in a positive way. • Help support people to understand ways or methods to support communities to look towards and start building a pathway for the future. • Lack of capacity amongst the PUL communities. • Lack of confidence amongst the PUL community in expressing their culture. • Lack of wider understanding PUL Heritage & History. • Lack of skills and education with the PUL communities. • Current Cross-Community Fears/Myths that still exist. • Lack of participation from the PUL community in previous Peace programmes. • Why have the CNR been perceived to have engaged more in the PEACE Programming to date? • The Relationship between the CNR Community, the Church and Cultural Organisations like the GAA. Targets Project 1: Dealing with Past & Contemplating the Future • Recruit minimum 140 participants. • Delivery of a programme which begins to look at the past, participant-led, but properly supported and facilitated. • Delivery of a story telling programme. • Provisions for an exhibition and local education programme. • A minimum of 26 hours (total) of meaningful cross-community engagement must be provided per participant. Project 2: PUL and CNR Programme • Recruit minimum 120 participants (95% PUL & 5% Other) (95% CNR & 5% Other) for the Programmes. • Carry out a co-design exercise for an educational and learning programme. • Delivery of a learning and development programme. • Delivery of a future development programme which should address 3 main elements. 1) The capacity to articulate the PUL message, lobby, campaign and present the PUL case in a positive way. 2) intervention programmes in supporting the youth and steering them away from paramilitarism and criminality. 3) promotion and development of the PUL culture (history, bonfires & heritage) the story of the PUL community. For the CNR community it will look at the emergence of a confident & capacitated CNR community, the relationship the CNR community has had with the PEACE Programmes, what the future holds and the work on reconciliation that is still required? The current situation in the wake of Brexit, what difficulties or opportunity have the NI Protocol or Windsor Framework delivered, do they feel their voices are being heard? • A minimum of 26 hours (total) of meaningful cross-community engagement must be provided per participant. Outputs • Attract and retain participants for full duration of the programme. • Increase in awareness of marginalised groups across the council area. • Increase in the confidence of participants to engage and advocate on issues central to peace and reconciliation. • Increase in the confidence and capacity of participants on the programme. • Increase in understanding around the different views in relation to the past. • Increase in confidence of the participants to be able to discuss the past. • Participants feeling able to support future issues in relation to creating peace and dealing with past. Programme Activities Project 1: Dealing with Past & Contemplating the Future • Recruit minimum 140 participants across the Borough. • Delivery of a programme which begins to look at the past, participant-led, but properly supported and facilitated. • Delivery of a story telling programme, via art, storytelling, podcasting • Provisions for an exhibition and local education programme which supports people to tell their stories of the past and shaping the future. Project 2: PUL & CNR Programme • Recruit minimum 60 participants for each Programme (120 in total for project 2) - (95% PUL & 5% Other) and (95% CNR & 5% Other). • Carry out a co-design exercise for an educational and learning programme. This should be intergenerational in nature with a 50/50 balance of those aged 14- 25 and 25+. • Delivery of a learning and development programme for both young people and adults which should include accredited qualifications. • Delivery of a future development programme which should address 3 main elements. 1) The capacity to articulate the PUL message, lobby, campaign and present the PUL case in a positive way. 2) Intervention programmes in supporting the youth and steering them away from paramilitarism and criminality. 3) Promotion and development of the PUL culture (history, bonfires & heritage) the story of the PUL community. For the CNR community it will look at the emergence of a confident & capacitated CNR community, the relationship the CNR community has had with the PEACE Programmes, what the future holds and the work on reconciliation that is still required? The current situation in the wake of Brexit, what difficulties or opportunity have the NI Protocol or Windsor Framework delivered, do they feel their voices are being heard? BUDGET: 260,828 EURO Timeline: 16 months