2007
- Enabling Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Individuals to Access Their Rights Under Equality Law
Commissioned by: ECNI & Equality Authority
Outlines strategies for equality bodies to enable lesbian, gay and bisexual people to secure their rights under equality law.
Author: J. Walsh et al
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2011
- The One Plan, Derry-Londonderry
Commissioned by: Derry City Council
Aims to create comptetitive, connected, creative and caring L’Derry for everyone.
Author: Derry City Council
Read here - Social Return Of Investment Pilot Reports: Ardoyne Women’s Group and Women’s Information Northern Ireland
Commissioned by: WSN
Presents the findings of a pilot Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis of two programmes within two different organisations, Ardoyne Women’s Group and Women’s Information Northern Ireland (formerly Women’s Information Group).
Author: WSN
Read here - Social Return Of Investment Pilot Reports: Falls Women’s Centre, Shankill Women’s Centre, Windsor Women’s Centre
Commissioned by: WSN
Analyses the findings of a pilot Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis of three programmes in three Belfast women’s centres.
Author: WSN
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2012
- Celebrating Belfast Women Tour Guide Booklet & renaming the Streets
Commissioned by: WRDA
Offers a brief history of women’s contribution to Belfast, with individual biographies of notable women.
Author: Margaret Ward
Read here - Community Service or Service in the Community: The Experience of Women Offenders and Women’s Centres in Northern Ireland
Commissioned by: WSN
Relays women’s experiences of community service placements in three women’s centres in Northern Ireland.
Author: WSN
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2013
- Beyond the Bottom Line: the Challenges and Opportunities of a Living Wage
Commissioned by: IPP
Explores the role public policy ‘should play in supporting progress on a living wage’.
Author: Lawton, K. and M. Pennycook
Read here - Does money affect children’s outcomes?
Commissioned by: Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Asks whether money is a cause of fundamental differences in children’s outcomes.
Author: K. Cooper and K. Stewart
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2014
- Reducing Poverty in the UK: a Collection of Evidence Reviews
Commissioned by: JRF
Explores research evidence on a wide range of social issues related to poverty.
Author: JRF
Read here - Viewfinder 15
Commissioned by: NICVA
Sets out the findings of a 2013 NICVA member survey examinning issues affecting the sector including bureaucracy, charity registration and the introduction of automatic pension enrolment.
Author: NICVA
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2015
- ‘Housing and communities’ inequalities in Northern Ireland’
Commissioned by: Equality Commission for Northern Ireland and the University of York
Reviews evidence and data on housing and communities’ inequalities for groups associated with each of the section 75 equality grounds of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
Author: A. Wallace
Read here - ‘Removing peace walls and public policy brief (1): the challenge of definition and design’
Commissioned by: University of Ulster
Explores policy approaches to framing the issue of ‘peace walls’ and issues around the Executive’s ambition to remove all such interface barriers by 2023.
Author: J. Byrne, C. Gormley-Heenan and D. Morrow
Read here - Report of the UK Children’s Commissioners UN Committee on the Rights of the Child
Commissioned by: NICCY et al.
Critically evaluates recent government delivery on children’s rights.
Author: NICCY et al.
Read here - Women’s Manifesto 2015
Commissioned by: WRDA
A series of demands on gender equality issues, directed at local decision makers. Issues covered include childcare, education, equality law and violence against women.
Author: WRDA
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2016
- Women’s Manifesto 2016
Commissioned by: Women’s Policy Group
A series of demands on gender equality issues, directed at local decision makers. Issues covered include childcare, education, equality law and violence against women.
Author: Women’s Policy Group
Read here - Women Speak Out on Community Planning Report
Commissioned by: WRDA
Three themes emerged as key factors to ensure engagement of women from disadvantaged and rural areas in the Community Planning process.
Author: Women’s Sector Lobbyist
Read here - Why Women Only Services and their Benefits
Commissioned by: WRDA
This paper seeks to demonstrate the need and benefit of women-only services across Northern Ireland as well as providing the women’s community and voluntary sector with a tool to lobby for funding as well as to highlight the uniqueness and benefits of women-only services, not just for women but families and the community as a whole.
Author: Ellen Finlay
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2017
- Summary Report on Reclaiming the Bonfires
Commissioned by: WRDA
This paper is a summary report on the findings and recommendations of the Reclaiming the Bonfires project.
Author: Kellie O’Dowd
2019
- NI Assembly Brexit Brief January 2020
This paper is a summary report on the projected impact of Brexit on NI.Author: NI AssemblyRead here
2021
WRDA Response to the Published Report into the Mother and Baby Homes and Magdalen Laundries in Northern Ireland