To ask the Minister for Employment and Learning to detail the immediate steps for the implementation of the Enabling Success Strategy.

’Enabling Success’ is a major 15 year strategy which sets out the Executive’s long-term vision and commitment to sustainably reduce economic inactivity in Northern Ireland. The strategy will be implemented through a series of 11 cross-departmental projects, subject to the availability of necessary resources.

The strategy was agreed by the Executive on 16 April and three projects have already been initiated, as detailed below:

Project A – development of an outcomes framework, based on a co-design approach with key stakeholders and the target groups, to inform and guide the competitive pilot testing process;

Project C – development, delivery and evaluation of a geographically focused control group project in an area with high levels of economic inactivity; and

Project K – a series of research projects will be undertaken to identify new sources of data to inform the implementation process and to accurately monitor the progress of the target groups towards and into employment, in line with the strategic objectives.

Other projects will be initiated on a priority basis, subject to adequate resources being secured on a cross-departmental basis.