North East Empowerment Partnership
VONNE succesfully hosted the North East Empowerment Partnership (NEEP), "a forum for critical debate regarding the definitions of engagement and empowerment, and a practice-led exploration of their implications for policy and practice" for four years between 2007 and March 2011.
NEEP was one of nine regional partnerships within the National Empowerment Partnership resourced by central government to promote a "truly participative society and promote the fundamental role of empowerment in achieving a more equal, cohesive and democratic society."
The partnership succefully brought together a range of providers in the public, third and private sector to improve the quality, coordination and evidence of empowerment across the north east.
The legacy of the NEEP includes research, toolkits, and local collaborative projects between local authorities and community groups and residents. The data is now available on the resources page.
The partnership continues to meet to respond to economic and political change in particular the Big Society agenda. VONNE continues to support the partnership and the empowerment initiative through the "Building Capacity for a Big Society" project.
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Latest News
08/11/2011
National Empowerment Partnership Evaluation
Community Development Foundation has released the evaluation for the empowerment programme. Full report and summary report on the overall NEP programme...
27/10/2011
Seminar on Citizen Led Services
The data, tools and resources generated from the North East Empowerment Partnership and the Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership were shared...
04/10/2011
Learning from the Activity Den
The North East Empowerment Partnership sponsored the Activity Den in Stanley to produce a legagy report to share their story and good practice across the...
01/06/2011
Latest report on Standing for Office
The national white paper on empowerment states that that "active participation in community life strengthens representative democracy and that political...
31/05/2011
Take Part Evaluation
The North East Take Part programme evaluation is available now. Managed by Skillshare North East and supported and partly funded by the North East Empowerment...
27/05/2011
FInal Evaluation for NEEP
The evaluation report and summary for the final year of the North East Empowerment Partnership is now available. This concludes the four year venture which...
27/05/2011
NEEP March conference report
The final celebration for the North East Empowerment Partnership took place in March 2011. The Communities in Control event was a joint reflection between...
27/05/2011
NEEP Final Case Studies
The North East Empowerment Partnership programme has just come to an end and a full review and evaluation of the projects supported is now available. See...
27/05/2011
Evaluation report for the RIEP
The North East Improvement and Effiency Partnership has recently undertaken an evaluation of the Community and Empowerment Programme which has supported...
02/02/2011
Standing for Office Update
For the very latest information, data and statistics on the standing for office research carried out by Ruahine on behalf of the North East Empowerment...
