The Mount Street Trust’s Employment Initiative (MST-EI) is targeted at addressing poverty related to unemployment in the Greater Dublin Area. The aim of the MST-EI is to make a meaningful contribution to intervening in poverty by supporting organisations to develop and implement specially designed measures to support the labour market integration of specific vulnerable groups. The Initiative will also seek to develop a generic model of inclusive labour market service delivery capable of being adapted for the benefit of other groups and localities.
The specific objectives of the Initiative are to:
- Generate positive and durable outcomes for vulnerable groups through an integrated approach to addressing the multiple barriers such groups experience
- Develop innovation and good practice in relation to partnership approaches and integrated working
- Contribute to ongoing knowledge and practice in relation to appropriate responses to unemployment at the local level.
- Generate meaningful learning for policy and appropriate linkage to the policy context
Three organisations are receiving funding from MSTEI to develop and deliver labour market interventions in the Dublin region during the period 2010 to 2012.