How PEACE PLUS is structured

PEACE PLUS is jointly managed by Ireland and Northern Ireland via SEUPB, a Good Friday Agreement institution. All projects must have a cross-border or cross-community dimension. Read the funding twice: of the €1,145m, the EU itself puts in €234m. The UK puts in €681m, Northern Ireland €170m and Ireland €59m. The ERDF column is 80% of the total because 80% is the Interreg maximum — but most of the money inside it is British, not Brussels.

ERDF (Interreg)Reg. (EU) 2021/1059€1.145bn total (2021–2027)

How the money reaches an organisation

Every level here can be asked for its own process map. That is the point of yours.

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European Commission — DG REGIO

€234m from the EU in the Financing Agreement of March 2023 — which is the €235m that Ireland commits to PEACE PLUS out of its ETC allocation under Reg. (EU) 2021/1059, as it lands in the financing table

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Irish Govt (Dept. of Public Expenditure) + NI Executive

Joint co-sponsors of SEUPB; provide national co-financing

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Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) — Managing Authority

Good Friday Agreement institution; sole MA; project selection via Steering Committees

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11 NI District Councils + 6 Irish Border County Councils

Lead Local Action Plans; design investment plans with local communities

👉 Your organisation sits at this level

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Delivery Partners — NGOs, Charities, Health, Education Bodies

Cross-community and cross-border projects with a peace/reconciliation dimension

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Final Beneficiaries

Border communities, victims of the Troubles, cross-community participants, young people

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Audit Chain

ECA → OLAF → SEUPB Audit Authority + Group of Auditors (DoF Ireland + DoF NI) → Lead Partners → NGOs

Process maps under this programme

PEACE PLUSTo fund work that brings both main communities, and both sides of the border, into the same room — so that reconciliation is something that measurably happened rather than something that was hoped for.

Where this came from

PEACEPLUS Programme Manual, version 12 — Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB), February 2026
Parliamentary Question on EU Funding — PEACEPLUS financing table — Houses of the Oireachtas, 29 February 2024

Read against the source on 2026-09-02.

What that check changed: A secondary summary said €916m of ERDF and looked like it contradicted the €235m already here. The Dáil answer has both: the ERDF column is €916m and €681m of it is British money. The original figure was right and was kept.