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Sustainable, Inclusive and Empowlered Communities: a five-year strategy to support the community and voluntary sector 2019-2024 Objective 1 in the government strategy Sustainable Inclusive and Empowered Communities 2019-2024 (SEIC) ) commits to strengthening and developing participative approaches to the development of public policy and programming underpinned by an autonomous community and voluntary infrastructure by developing and sustaining national, regional and local structures and policies that facilitate and promote effective local development, autonomous community development, and meaningful engagement of marginalised communities (action 1.1) and by providing core funding for autonomous community development and local development at local level, including employment of professional community workers (action 4.1)... The current Programme for Government, Our Shared Future, commits to "Introduce, on a phased basis, a number of projects similar in approach to Community Development..