The CWI Prebudget Submission, Not Just Recovery: Building Community Development, Building Community Resilience, calls for investment in a range of areas including:

• the extension of the Pilot Community Development Programme to expand and extend autonomous community development projects in the most marginalised areas and with the most marginalised communities
• the extension of community development approaches in LEADER, SICAP and other programmes.
• the implementation of the Irish plans and strategies to address poverty, social exclusion and inequality.
• a drive to achieve an equal and sustainable recovery based on public services, fair taxation, valuing the care economy, equality and sustainability.
• universal health care that is accessible for all.
• public care systems that are accessible and affordable to all that need them.
• the care economy to create a society that values care, people and the planet.

Read the submission here