evidence: Alongside our briefing from Professor Colin Knox appraising community planning in Northern Ireland, this article from Fermanagh and Omagh District Council (FODC) outlines key areas of innovation and deployment of community planning partnerships in local government. [...] Council officers worked with Community Plan Action Lead Partners and academics at Ulster University to map the scale of fuel, transport and food poverty in the FODC District. All research was undertaken at a small area level, utilising Census data and the collection of primary data regarding the availability and cost of a healthy food basket. The three individual aspects of poverty were mapped and brought together to identify small areas at risk of co-poverties. A findings report was published in March 2023 and identified that 52 small areas are at risk of at least 2 of the 3 aspects of poverty, and 4 small areas are at risk of all 3. This provides a fresh approach to space-based poverty analysis in Fermanagh and Omagh, using more up-to-date data than the commonly used NI Multiple Deprivation Measure. The Community Planning Partnership is using the analysis to influence the location of interventions to alleviate the impacts of poverty. You can read more information here