Our Northern Ireland Work

SCI works to secure a fairer, more inclusive society in Northern Ireland, helping to sustain and deepen the peace. 

Our efforts focus on: 

• Protecting and advancing the human rights commitments in the Good Friday Agreement. 
• Securing more effective approaches to tackle inequality and disadvantage.
• Fostering a more values-based narrative about the future of these islands & the prospect of any constitutional change. 
• Encouraging a healthier public and media discourse and narrative around progressive change.

We do this by: 

• Strengthening activist and donor leadership skills through fellowship awards, mentoring, and other bespoke learning opportunities
• Growing and animating a diverse network of effective changemakers focused on learning, solidarity, and mutual support.
• Encouraging continued philanthropic investment in peacebuilding and sharing the learning with other contexts
• Supporting the enhanced participation, advocacy, and voice of marginalised communities
• Convening activists and donors to reflect, learn, strategise, and collaborate on shared problems across the island of Ireland.   
• Producing and disseminating accessible tools, resources and research that help to secure a fairer and more inclusive society.
• Offering strategic advice and consultancy support to donors and changemakers