Local Development Companies (LDCs) promote area-based, integrated community-led projects to address long-term unemployment, economic marginalisation and social exclusion. One such project is The Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) programme which provides funding for projects to tackle poverty and social exclusion and help address high and persistent levels of deprivation through targeted and innovative, locally-led approaches. It supports disadvantaged communities and individuals including unemployed people, people living in deprived areas, people with disabilities, single-parent families, people on a low income, members of the Traveller and Roma community and other disadvantaged groups.Student assessment

SICAP is funded by the Department of Rural and Community Development and the European Social Fund under the Programme for Employability, Inclusion and Learning. The programme is managed at a local level by 33 Local Community Development Committees (LCDCs), with support from local authorities, They do this by helping people to find work or to upskill, providing CV training or a personal development course and helping some avail of work
placement programmes such as Community Employment or Tύs.