Tackling Rural Poverty and Social Isolation: a new framework supporting new communities

The Tackling Rural Poverty and Social Isolation (TRPSI) framework is a rural initiative led by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD). The framework aims to tackle poverty and social isolation in rural areas through organisations working in partnership to design and implement measures which target the needs of vulnerable people. The framework provides extensive rural statistics, before focusing on three priority areas of access poverty, financial poverty and social isolation, while retaining the ability to develop measures to target vunerable groups in rural areas based on identified need. New and innivative approaches to addressing social inclusion and poverty in rural areas are central.