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Community Development

Elevate programme having a positive impact in communities

Community and voluntary organisations are being encouraged by the Public Health Agency (PHA) to apply for a programme that can help tackle health inequalities in their local communities. The Elevate Mentoring and Grants programme, coordinated by the Community Development and Health Network (CDHN), is now open for applications following another successful year. During the 2025/26 initiative, 21 organisations benefitted from the PHA funding which saw communities throughout Northern Ireland engaged in activities that ranged from working with trafficked migrants in Belfast and a mental health

Expansion of community development approaches

In October 2016, a 10-year approach to transforming health and social care was launched by the Department of Health, in a document entitled Health and wellbeing 2026: Delivering Together. This ambitious plan, the Health and Social Care Transformation Programme, was the response to a report produced by an expert panel, led by Professor Rafael Bengoa. The panel had been tasked with considering the best configuration of health and social care services in Northern Ireland.

Health inequalities

The PHA has taken as one of its building blocks ‘Building sustainable communities’, one of the core themes proposed by Sir Michael Marmot in his 2010 report Fair society, healthy lives. In this report, Marmot advocates that organisations should:

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