Find out about the range of work WRDA is involved in.
| Community Facilitation |
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The Community Facilitation service is a unique way for public, private, voluntary and community organisations to interact with local communities in order to tackle exclusion, poverty and advance equality. More .. |
| Health Awareness Programmes |
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We train Community Facilitators to deliver training resource packs which are specifically designed to reflect priorities and targets in the ‘Investing for Health’ agenda. More .. |
| Good Relations |
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As an organisation devoted to the improvement of the quality of life of women in socially disadvantaged communities, the WRDA has a proven track record in reaching deep into the hearts of working class communities across Northern Ireland. More .. |
| Community Consultation |
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Community Facilitators promote effective policy consultations by engaging grassroots individuals who are not usually involved in consultation. More .. |
| Interested In Becoming A Community Facilitator? |
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We believe that education is a key factor in addressing women’s marginalisation. This focus led the WRDA to develop its Community Facilitators Programme to enable and empower women.
This Award winning Programme is accredited at NVQ Level III in Direct Training & Support. The course is delivered in 26 sessions over 13 weeks. More .. |
| Policy |
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Since 1983, WRDA has worked in a dynamic environment to influence the emergence and implementation of strategies and policies to empower women at local, regional and international level. Much progress has been achieved during this time but much yet remains to be realised.
WRDA continues to input and respond to policy development to promote women’s equality. More .. |
| Assembly Monitor |
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Assembly Monitor provides the women's sector with up to date information on the business of the Assembly that has a 'gender' significance. We monitor Assembly debates, questions and answers and committee business and send this information to a wide audience through 'Women's Sector Assembly Update'. 'Gender Focus', the WRDA e-bulletin informs MLAs of the gender impacts their decisions can have and urges them to be gender sensitive when making decisions at the Assembly. More .. |
| Community Direct |
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Community Direct is the Social Economy Enterprise of the Women’s Resource and Development Agency which aims to provide all its customers, Statutory, Voluntary, and Private Sector with a range of quality products/services that help them to address the health and social needs of people and communities across Northern Ireland. More .. |
| WCRP |
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The Women's Centres Regional Partnership (WCRP) is supported by DSD to provide infrastructural support to community based women's organisations across Northern Ireland. The four key lead partners of the Partnership are the Women's Resource and Development Agency (WRDA), Women's Support Network (WSN), Northern Ireland Rural Women's Network (NIRWN) and The Women's Centre, Derry. Fourteen women's centres spread across Northern Ireland are key stakeholders within the Partnership: seven from the Greater Belfast and Lisburn area, four in the North West and three in Dungannon, Magherafelt and Craigavon. The WCRP has won Live and Learn funding from the Lottery, which will help to support education and training programmes across the fourteen groups until 2014. More .. |
| Hanna’s House |
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WRDA is a member of Hanna’s House, an all-Ireland project aiming to create a home for an active feminist community in Ireland, working for a non-violent, just society that embraces diversity Hanna’s House is engaged in a peace project over 2008-2010 that is designed to enable women to engage in a process of reconciliation through participation in a series of events intended to develop awareness of feminist ideals of justice, equality and non-violence, thereby promoting strategies for transformative change. More .. |
