About Cairde

Cairde is a community development organization working to tackle health inequalities among ethnic minority communities by improving ethnic minority access to health services and ethnic minority participation in health planning and delivery.

Cairde’s key action areas are:

Improving Access

Health Information and Advocacy
Objective: To provide relevant, accurate and culturally appropriate health information to the target population to enable them to access and use primary care services.


Improving Delivery

Participation
Objective: To build and support ethnic minority participation in the planning and delivery of primary care.


Influencing Planning

Research & Policy
Objective: To influence the development of primary care through relevant research, data, policy submissions and participation on key structures.

In seeking to meet its aims and objectives, Cairde initiates programmes and actions which model community development approaches to tackling health inequality and which address the wider factors that influence health at the community level. These programmes include:               

  • Health Information & Advocacy Centre
  • Ethnic Minority Health Forum
  • Women’s Health Action
  • Community Development and Health Project
 
A Cairde initiative.