This project tackles the challenge of the Municipality of Utrecht to align their efforts in the poverty reduction system to the needs of the target group of citizens living in poverty. The municipality has identified that there is a need for improvement on this aspect to fulfil t
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This project tackles the challenge of the Municipality of Utrecht to align their efforts in the poverty reduction system to the needs of the target group of citizens living in poverty. The municipality has identified that there is a need for improvement on this aspect to fulfil their ambition to support citizens beyond mitigation of the impact of poverty and offer citizens opportunities to get out of poverty. Research has been conducted on the phenomenon of poverty, the poverty reduction system, stakeholders in the system and relevant trends and developments. Based on insights from this research a desired future for the poverty reduction system has been formulated. This desired future consists of a simple system that stimulates prevention of problems, offers integral support, works with a personal approach, is based on trust and is a system in which impact is reflected on. Several possible directions to arrive to this desired future and solutions within these directions are explored and have led to a strategy for the municipality: Working towards a poverty reduction system that offers integral support to Utrechters in poverty by connecting them with the right organisations in the system. This strategy consists of three steps and has been given shape in the form of a concept. The concept consists of a tool to enable guiding organisations in the poverty reduction system to identify integral support and connect with organisations that offer the identified forms of support. This way the guiding organisations can provide citizens with integral support.