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<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <title>CAIN: Funders and Partners</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="Author" content="Dr Martin Melaugh" /> <meta name="Description" content="CAIN: Funders and Partners" /> <meta name="KeyWords" content="CAIN, website help feature, Funds, Funding, Funders, finance, Partners" /> <script language="JavaScript" src="/aajs/functions.js"></script> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><center><table width=600><tr><td><a name="top"></a> <hr noshade size="1" /><img src="/images/cainlogo.gif" border="0" align="left" alt="CAIN logo" /> <center>CAIN Web Service</center> <h3 align=center>Information on Funders and Partners</h3> <hr noshade size="1" /> <center> <a href="/index.html">[CAIN_Home]</a> <a href="/events/index.html">[Key_Events]</a> <a href="/issues/index.html">Key_Issues]</a> <a href="/othelem/index.html">[Conflict_Background]</a> HOME: <a href="/help.htm">[Help]</a> <a href="/cainbgn/addition.htm">[Recent_Additions]</a> <a href="/associated/index.html">[Associated_Sites]</a> <a href="/othelem/contribs.htm">[Contributors]</a> <a href="/othelem/contrib.htm">[Contributions]</a> <a href="/media-reports.htm">[Media Reports]</a> <a href="/citations.htm">[Citations]</a> <a href="/access/hits.htm">[Access_Stats]</a> <a href="/funding.htm">[Funding]</a> <a href="/copyright.htm">[Copyright]</a> </center> <hr noshade size=4 />  <h3>Funders</h3> The information on the CAIN site is freely available to anyone with access to the Internet. This free access could only be achieved through the generosity of the funders listed below. Editorial control of content remains with CAIN..   <img src="/nai/images/Rec-Fund-Standard-Colour_200x75.jpg" border="0" height="75" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFA logo" align="right" />2024: Reconciliation Fund, DFA CAIN received funding on 19 June 2024 from the Irish government's Department of Foreign Affairs - Reconciliation Fund. It will be used to process an eighth batch of records (1989, 1990, and 1991) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these will added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   2024: Department for Communities <a href="https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/images/dfc-logo_750x500.jpg" border="0" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="Department for Communities logo" align="right" /></a> CAIN received funding from the Department for Communities on 5 January 2024. This funding is to support work on the Associated Site <a href="/proni/" target="_blank">PRONI Records on CAIN</a>. The work will be completed by the end of March 2024 and will involve a selection of official documents from PRONI, for the years 2000 and 2001, being added to the CAIN Archive.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/uu-logo-2024_172x94.jpg" width="172" height="94" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2024: Ulster University In January 2024 CAIN received core funding from <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ulster University</a>.   <img src="/nai/images/dfa-logo_200-52.jpg" border="0" height="52" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFA logo" align="right" />2023: Reconciliation Fund, DFA Funding on 13 June 2023 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), will be used to process a seventh batch of records (1992, 1993, and 1994) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these will added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   2023: Department for Communities <a href="https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/images/dfc-logo_750x500.jpg" border="0" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="Department for Communities logo" align="right" /></a> CAIN received funding from the Department for Communities on 14 February 2023. This funding is to support work on the Associated Site <a href="/proni/" target="_blank">PRONI Records on CAIN</a>. The work will be completed by the end of March 2023 and will involve a selection of official documents from PRONI, for the year 1999, being added to the CAIN Archive.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/uu-logo-2024_172x94.jpg" width="172" height="94" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2023: Ulster University In January 2023 CAIN received core funding from <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ulster University</a>.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/uu-logo-2024_172x94.jpg" width="172" height="94" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2022: Ulster University In January 2022 CAIN received core funding from <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ulster University</a>.   <img src="/nai/images/dfa-logo_200-52.jpg" border="0" height="52" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFA logo" align="right" />2021: Reconciliation Fund, DFA Funding on 23 November 2021 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), will be used to process a sixth batch of records (1996, 1997, and 1998) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these will added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   2021: Department for Communities <a href="https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/images/dfc-logo_750x500.jpg" border="0" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="Department for Communities logo" align="right" /></a> CAIN received funding from the Department for Communities on 8 November 2021. This funding is to support work on the Associated Site <a href="/proni/" target="_blank">PRONI Records on CAIN</a>. The work will be carried out between November 2021 and the end of March 2022 and will involve a selection of official documents from PRONI, for the years 1997 and 1998, being added to the CAIN Archive.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/uu-logo-2024_172x94.jpg" width="172" height="94" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2021: Ulster University On 17 February 2021 CAIN received core funding from <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ulster University</a>.   2020 - 2021: Initiatives of Change Committee in Ireland <a href="https://www.iofc.org/" target="_blank"><img src="/images/IoC_logo_int_200.jpg" border="0" height="35" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="Initiatives of Change logo" align="right" /></a> The Initiatives of Change (IofC) Committee in Ireland (formerly known as Moral Re-Armament; MRA) made a donation to CAIN on 1 September 2020. The funding is towards the cost of maintaining CAIN as a living/staffed endeavour. This donation has helped to keep the CAIN Archive live, and will provide staff with an opportunity to secure other sustainable fuding. The CAIN Archive includes <a href="/roddy_evans/" target="_blank">Dr J.R. Evans</a>' contributions on the work of MRA/IofC during the Troubles.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT A grant awarded in July 2020 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), will be used on a project to complete the CAIN Chronology of the Conflict. The work will begin in August 2020.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT A grant awarded in December 2019 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), will be used on a project to digitise the speeches, statements, etc. of John Hume and present these in a new section on CAIN. The work will be undertaken during 2020. (See brief details about the <a href="/john_hume/" target="_blank">project</a>.)   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2019 - 2020: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT Funding in September 2019 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), will be used to process a fifth batch of records (1986-88) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these will added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   <a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/images/ARKsmfinal2017-2.jpg" border="0" height="83" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="ARK logo" align="right" /></a> 2019 - 2020: ARK In early 2019 ARK (Northern Ireland's social policy hub) offered financial support on behalf of CAIN to Ulster University. The funding covers the cost of CAIN for the period 1 August 2019 to 31 July 2020. This is to allow time to try to secure core funding.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2018: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT A grant awarded on 6 December 2017 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), was used to fund a project entitled 'Documenting the Impact of the Troubles on the Republic of Ireland'. The work was undertaken during 2018/19.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/UU_Corp_logo_200-133_c.jpg" width="162" height="93" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2016 - 2019: Ulster University In March 2016 CAIN received funding from <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">Ulster University</a>.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2016: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT Funding on 7 December 2015 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), was used to process a fourth batch of 920 records (1981-85) from the National Archives, Ireland, and these were added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   <img src="/accounts/images/eu-colour-r.jpg" alt="eu logo" width="225" height="74" hspace="15" vspace="10" border="1" align="right" /> 2013 - 2014: European Union's PEACE III programme In 2013 the Accounts of the Conflict project received funding from the European Union's PEACE III programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. The Accounts of the Conflict project was managed by INCORE, and CAIN staff worked directly on the project and received a proportion of the total award. The funded part of the project was completed in December 2014.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2014: Reconciliation Fund, DFAT Funding on 1 July 2014 from the Reconciliation Fund, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), allowed for a third batch of 926 records (1974-80) from the National Archives, Ireland, to be added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   <a href="https://www.dfa.ie/" target="_blank"><img src="/nai/images/dfat_200-50.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="DFAT logo" align="right" /></a>2013: Reconciliation & Anti-Sectarianism Funds, DFAT Funding on 1 December 2012 from the Reconciliation & Anti-Sectarianism Funds, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), allowed for a selection of 750 records (1970-74) from the National Archives, Ireland, to be added to the section <a href="/nai/index.html" target="_blank">NAI Records on CAIN</a>.   <img src="/images/ofmdfm-logo_c.jpg" border="0" height="50" width="200" hspace="12" vspace="10" alt="OFMdFM logo" align="right" /> 2012: Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, OFMdFM Funding in 2012 from the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (OFMdFM), allowed a range of work to be undertaken to enhance datasets and facilitate access to CAIN.   <img src="/victims/ahrc_logo.gif" align="right" vspace="10" hspace="10" alt="AHRC logo" border="1" /> 2010: AHRC Following the completion of the Victims, Survivors and Commemoration project (below) the Arts and Humanities Research Council (<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/" target="_blank">AHRC</a>) announced additional capital funding and called for proposals to the Digital Equipment and Database Enhancement for Impact (DEDEFI) Scheme. CAIN submitted a proposal in November 2009 to carry out a one-year project and was made an award in January 2010. The new project was entitled: <a href="/victims/gis/index.html" target="_blank">Visualising the Conflict: Immersion in the Landscape of Victims and Commemoration in Northern Ireland</a>. The project officially began on 1 March 2010 and it ended on 31 June 2011.   <a href="http://www.esrc.ac.uk" target="_blank"><img src="/images/ESRC_75_Border.gif" align="right" vspace="5" hspace="20" alt="image of the ESRC logo" border="0" /></a> 2006 - 2012: ESRC ARK (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), secured core funding from the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) through its Large Grant Scheme (award number RES-060-23-0015). This funding began on 1 October 2006 and ended in March 2012. CAIN staff were covered by a proportion of this award.   <img src="/victims/ahrc_logo.gif" align="right" vspace="10" hspace="10" alt="AHRC logo" border="1" /> 2006 - 2008: AHRC In June 2006 the CAIN was notified that a bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (<a href="http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/" target="_blank">AHRC</a>) for research funding to support work on the CAIN site had been successful. The period of the funding was 1 October 2006 to 30 September 2008. The two-year project was on: <a href="/victims/index.html" target="_blank">'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland</a>.   <img src="/images/tap-logo.jpg" border="0" hspace="10" vspace="0" align="right" /> 2002 - 2005: The Atlantic Philanthropies In 2002 ARK received core funding from <a href="http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/" target="_blank">The Atlantic Philanthropies</a>. As CAIN is a component part of ARK, the costs of running CAIN were covered by this award.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/newUU.jpg" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 2002: University of Ulster In 2002 the CAIN project received funding from the <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">University of Ulster</a>.   <!a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><!img src="/associated/newUU.jpg" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 1999: Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU) In April 1999 CAIN received funding from the Central Community Relations Unit to continue work on the <a href="https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/ccru/" target="_blank">CCRU</a> Associated Site.   <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><img src="/associated/newUU.jpg" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /></a> 1999: University of Ulster In 1999 the CAIN project received funding from the <a href="http://www.ulster.ac.uk" target="_blank">University of Ulster</a> to cover a gap between two funding awards.   1998-1999: Department for Education Northern Ireland (DENI) During 1998 the CAIN project received funding from the <a href="http://www.deni.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Department of Education for Northern Ireland</a> (DENI) to continue the development of the CAIN archive.   1998-1999: Central Community Relations Unit (CCRU) During 1998 the CAIN project received funding from the <a href="/ccru/index.html" target="_blank">Central Community Relations Unit</a> (CCRU) to digitise materials related to community relations and to develop an Associated Site within CAIN.   <img src="/images/elib-229-152.gif" border="0" hspace="10" align="right" /> 1996 - 1997: eLib The CAIN project was initially funded, during 1996 and 1997, by: the <a href ="http://ukoln.bath.ac.uk/elib/" target="_blank">Electronic Libraries Programme</a> (eLib) of the Higher Education Funding Councils.   <hr noshade size="1" /> <h3>Original Partners</h3> The development of the CAIN service was initially undertaken (1996 to 1997) by three <a href="/bgnd/partners.htm">partner institutions</a>: <ul> the <a href="http://www.ulst.ac.uk">University of Ulster</a>, the <a href="http://www.qub.ac.uk">Queen's University of Belfast</a>, and the <a href="http://www.linenhall.com">Linen Hall Library</a>, Belfast. CAIN has also received considerable support from: <a href="http://www.ark.ac.uk/">ARK</a> (Northern Ireland Social and Political Archive), and <a href="http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk">INCORE</a> (International Conflict Research). </ul>    <hr noshade size=4 /> <center> </center></td></tr></table>   <table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><div align="center">CAIN contains information and source material on the conflict and politics in Northern Ireland. 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