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THE NATIONAL ACTION PLAN AGAINST POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION
This second National Action Plan (NAPs/incl) represents not just a Governmental, but a societal response, to the challenge of combating poverty and social exclusion. It is the product of wide and intensive consultation with the social partners, the community and voluntary sector and many other interested parties. http://www.taoiseach.gov.ie/index.asp
The National Action Plan against Poverty and Social Exclusion (NAPS/incl) is part of an EU drive to meet the EU objective set by the European Council in Lisbon in 2000 'to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty and social exclusion by 2010'. It does not differ significantly from Building an Inclusive Society.
The European Councils in Lisbon and Feira in 2000 set the strategic goal of making the European Union by 2010, "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion". A key objective in achieving this goal, also agreed at Lisbon , is to make a decisive impact on the eradication of poverty and social exclusion. Arising from this, the National Action Plans against Poverty and Social Exclusion (NAPs/incl) have been drawn up setting out the strategies, specific measures and institutional arrangements at national level in making progress towards achieving these objectives.
The objectives and the common outline for the first Naps/incl. (submitted in June 2001) were endorsed by the European Council at Nice in 2000.This was reaffirmed and strengthened at Copenhagen in 2002 for the purposes of the second round of Naps/incl.
