Community Uptake Analysis of PEACE II

This report analyses the allocation of funding in Northern Ireland and the Border Region of Ireland under the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation. It primarily addresses the issue of religious community uptake of available funding and the complex relationship between religious community background, deprivation, funding applications and approved funding within Northern Ireland. The authors begin by examining the number of project applications and approvals as well as their aggregate value, before looking at the religious community and relative deprivation profiles of the Census Output Areas in which these projects originated. The final section of the study presents the results of a statistical analysis of the effects of factors such as population size, religious community background, deprivation and the propensity to apply on the distribution of funding