Guiding Principles

All partners from the statutory, community, voluntary and private sectors have signed up to a set of guiding principles which will underpin their activities within our HAZ.

Partnership Working

  • Shared ownership, commitment and leadership
  • Joint responsibility for Partnership problems as well as successes
  • Complying with inputs requirements based on agreed objectives, priorities for action and change
  • Ensuring understanding, engagement and ownership of the Partnership at all levels of the organisation
  • Effective and efficient use of existing, pooled and new resources to meet aims
  • Encouraging mutual understanding and recognition

Community Focus

  • Community engagement, development, involvement and empowerment
  • Developing community infrastructure, capacity building and sustainability
  • Locally responsive action
  • Marrying bottom-up community development with top-down strategic action

Needs Led

  • Targeting energies towards those who suffer disadvantage, poverty, inequalities in health and wellbeing, social exclusion
  • Ensuring an equal opportunities ethos pervades all work and activity

Effective Leadership

  • Partners taking the lead where their expertise, knowledge, experience or position will reap best results
  • Challenging existing barriers to changes which will have a demonstrable improvement in health and wellbeing
  • Ensuring the value for money principle is followed in all aspects of work

Looking Forward

  • Shared learning and good practice to allow a focus for future successful partnership working and real future improvements in the health and wellbeing of the people of Armagh and Dungannon
  • Innovation and imaginative thinking, actions and fresh approach

Information Sharing and Exchange

  • Joint pooling of information within agreed protocols to ensure agreed sharing and exchange of information in a secure and , where necessary, confidential manner
  • Regular, focused communication to all stakeholders in the HAZ

Accountability

  • Striving for equity of health and wellbeing, access to services and support
  • Representative of, and accountable to, all stakeholders particularly the community
  • Open and honest in all activities including progress, targets, outcomes
  • Monitoring and review mechanisms to ensure that HAZ continues to meet the needs of the people of Armagh and Dungannon.