Belfast Labour Market Partnership

How we developed the Belfast Labour Market Partnership

The Belfast Labour Market Partnership (LMP) is focused on improving Belfast’s employability outcomes and labour market conditions by working with a wide range of partners, being flexible to meet local needs and helping to connect employers with employees. We developed the partnership with funding from the Department for Communities (DfC). 

Working with stakeholder groups

We work with a wide range of stakeholder groups to consider four areas when deciding how to support the development of Belfast’s labour market:

• supply (people)
• demand (employment)
• provision (education, training and support programmes)
• policy

This gives us the information we need to:

• develop a Belfast Labour Market Partnership action plan tailored to the city’s labour market needs
• agree the city’s sector and industry specific needs
• review supply and demand levels to identify gaps and challenges; and
• commission the support required.

More information on Belfast Labour Market Partnership

You can read a summary of our 2025-2026 action plan online:

2025-2026 action plan

Or email [email protected].

Key areas of focus

During 2025 and 2026, we’ll be focusing on a range of activities which will help to:

• reduce Belfast’s working-age economic inactivity rate
• reduce youth unemployment (18 to 24 years old) in the city
• increase the median wage in the city
• increase the percentage of working-age adults with disabilities employed in Belfast
• decrease the percentage of the population with no qualifications.

What we achieved in 2024 – 2025

If you would like to know what we achieved during 2024 - 2025 you can request a copy of our Annual Report for this period. You can do this by emailing us on [email protected].