ABSTRACT
Liverpool was one of the sites of the Third European Anti-Poverty programme and the University of Liverpool was contracted to act as the local evaluator of this strand of the programme. This chapter aims to draw out some of the key issues that emerged from this programme, in the hope that lessons may be learnt for future anti-poverty, race specific and partnership projects. The Liverpool project raises issues, then of particular interest concerning the development of partnership where the issue of social exclusion is compounded with the issue of race. Liverpool has witnessed virtually all the social policy initiatives that have been directed towards arresting urban decline, promoting economic regeneration, tackling poverty and wider social exclusion. The European Commission saw the participation of the groups most affected by social exclusion to be essential for the action taken by local projects to be effective in achieving economic and social integration.
