3.28 Membership of the partnerships identified in the returns varied from 2 Departments working together (for example, the Vocational Enhancement Programme with members from DE and DEL only) to a wide variety of stakeholders (for example the Economic Development Forum has members from the public sector, the trade unions, employers, community and voluntary sector, education sector and the rural/farming community). However, as illustrated in table 9 below, 91% of the partnerships contain cross-sectoral representation from both the public sector and social partners such as business, community/voluntary groups, trade unions.
Table 8
| Total | Cross Sectoral | % | Public Sector Only | % | NICS Only | % | Unknown | % | Total |
DARD | 33 | 33 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 33 |
DCAL | 12 | 8 | 67% | 3 | 25% | 1 | 8% | 0 | 0% | 12 |
DE | 9 | 7 | 78% | 2 | 22% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 9 |
DEL | 25 | 20 | 80% | 3 | 12% | 0 | 0% | 2 | 8% | 25 |
DETI | 81 | 75 | 93% | 1 | 1% | 0 | 0% | 5 | 6% | 81 |
DFP | 35 | 34 | 97% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 35 |
DHSSPS | 201 | 180 | 90% | 7 | 3% | 2 | 1% | 12 | 6% | 201 |
DOE | 17 | 15 | 88% | 1 | 6% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 6% | 17 |
DRD | 30 | 28 | 93% | 2 | 7% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 30 |
DSD | 24 | 18 | 75% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 6 | 25% | 24 |
NIO | 52 | 52 | 100% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | 52 |
OFMDFM | 34 | 32 | 94% | 1 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 1 | 3% | 34 |
TOTAL | 553 | 502 | 91% | 20 | 4% | 4 | 1% | 27 | 5% | 553 |