A PROGRAMME led by the University of Limerick (UL) is supporting local leaders and public officials in rethinking how they combat social issues affecting Irish communities.
The Local Leadership Programme, developed by UL’s Research Evidence into Policy Programmes and Practice (REPPP) project assists leaders in the statutory, community, voluntary, and educational sectors to examine complex problems such as poverty, inequality, ethnic differences, illicit drug use and community violence.
UL’s Dr Johnny Connolly explained: Â “Wicked problems are unlikely to be affected by off-the-peg, evidence-based programmes, and local leaders working in communities across Ireland are often overwhelmed by these structural and systemic problems, which cannot be simply ‘solved’ or ‘fixed’ but rather need to be managed better.”
