The Paris Pact to Combat Exclusion (2022-2026) is a coordination-driven policy framework aimed at addressing multidimensional social exclusion through strengthened collaboration among public, private, and civil society actors. The Pact mobilises a broad and integrated action plan spanning multiple sectors, including housing, health, and employment, with a strong emphasis on partnership-based governance and visibility of vulnerable populations.
A coordinated strategy to fight poverty with the Paris Pact to Combat Exclusion
Abstract
The Parisian Pact to Combat Exclusion (2022-2026) is grounded in a political commitment to strengthen the fight against social exclusion through improved coordination across stakeholders. Rather than introducing entirely new policies, the Pact seeks to address fragmentation in existing social policies by fostering greater coherence among the wide range of actors involved in tackling exclusion in Paris, including public authorities, civil society organisations, and private actors. This reflects a recognition that exclusion is multidimensional, encompassing housing, health, employment, and social isolation, and therefore requires integrated and collaborative responses rather than siloed interventions. In this sense, the Pact contributes to inclusive growth by improving access to opportunities and essential services, enabling more residents to participate in and benefit from economic and social life, while increasing the effectiveness of public action.
The policy’s objectives are threefold. First, it aims to improve coordination of social actions across the city, enhancing efficiency and reducing duplication. Second, it seeks to expand partnerships, building new forms of cooperation with a broader set of stakeholders. Third, it emphasises the need to make both actions and excluded populations more visible, echoing a wish to change perceptions of exclusion. Together, these objectives position the Pact as a governance instrument focused on collective action, visibility, and systemic coordination, rather than a narrowly targeted intervention. In doing so, it strengthens inclusive growth by improving the coherence and effectiveness of social policy delivery, reducing gaps in access to essential services, and ensuring that more residents facing exclusion are better connected to the opportunities and supports needed to participate fully in urban life. The Pact goes beyond coordination and partnership by committing to new solutions, such as one guest house in each district and six additional storage services between 2022 and 2026.
Country: France
City: Paris
EU member state: Yes
Geographic scale: City
City size: Large (2 050 000 in the city, 13 170 000 residents in the FUA)
Date launched: 2022 (Start of the current strategic plan)
Current status: Ongoing
Date of conclusion (if applicable): 2026 (End of the current strategic plan)
Policy pillar(s): Education, Labour Markets, Housing and the Built Environment, Public Services
Target group(s): Children, Youth, Women, Older People, People with a migrant background, People at risk of poverty or social exclusion, People with disabilities, Ethnic minorities, including Roma, LGBTQI+ Community, People experiencing homelessness, Low-income households, Families, Unemployed or Underemployed individuals
Funding and budget:
Total budget: Funding is allocated to specific projects under the umbrella of the policy. The action plan represents a budget of more than 30 million euros for the City of Paris only.
Funding sources: Local, National, Other stakeholders
EU funds/programmes: No
Stage 1 – Diagnose
The Pact is based on a recognition of persistent and multidimensional forms of exclusion in Paris, affecting access to housing, health, employment, and social participation. It identifies the need for better coordination among fragmented actors as a central issue. The involvement of a wide range of stakeholders, including NGOs, community groups, and research institutions, also contributes to shaping a shared understanding of exclusion across sectors.
Stage 2 – Prioritise
The City of Paris defines priorities that reflect both the breadth of exclusion and the need for coordinated action. These include improving access to essential services (housing, health, employment), strengthening social support infrastructures, and increasing the visibility of vulnerable populations. More recently, the policy has been adapted to prioritise three reinforced areas of cooperation: health, ageing populations, and employment.
Stage 3 – Design and mobilise
The Pact is operationalised through a comprehensive action plan bringing together a large number of stakeholders across sectors. Its design emphasises partnership-based governance, involving local government, NGOs, private actors, and citizen groups. The approach is less about creating new standalone programmes than about mobilising and aligning existing initiatives under a shared strategic framework. This results in a dense portfolio of actions, reflecting the ambition to address exclusion holistically. Yet, the city governments notes that this creates complexity in terms of coordination and evaluation.
Stage 4 – Implement
Implementation relies on collective action across multiple actors, with responsibilities shared between the City of Paris and its partners. The city reports some implementation challenges inherent to the Pact’s collaborative and multi-sectoral nature, including coordination constraints across stakeholders, limited resources, and difficulties in engaging target groups. In spite of those, over 80% of the action plan is reported as achieved or ongoing. Concrete outputs include the development of new infrastructures and initiatives, such as solidarity events (e.g. a city-wide solidarity week), six new storage facilities for homeless people, and new emergency shelters across neighbourhoods of Paris.
Stage 5 – Monitor, learn and adapt
Monitoring and evaluation are not formalised, with difficulties linked to the large number of actions and the multi-stakeholder nature of the pact. Nevertheless, the policy is regularly adapted: the current pact succeeds a previous one (2015-2020) and builds on its actions. The reinforcement of cooperation in specific priority areas (health, ageing, employment) in 2025 also reflects an adaptative approach.
Identify and tailor high-impact policy pillars: the recent prioritisation of health, ageing, and employment reflect a wish to focus efforts on urgent priorities, within a broad and complex policy agenda.
Design integrated intervention packages: The Pact brings together a wide range of actions across sectors, reflecting an integrated approach to tackling multidimensional exclusion.
Use visibility and mobilisation as policy tools: The Pact shows how a broad strategy can raise awareness of exclusion, mobilise stakeholders, and help direct collective attention towards communities that are often overlooked.
Paris Pact to Combat Exclusion, Strategic Plan 2022–2026 [Pacte Parisien de Lutte contre l’Exclusion, Plan stratégique 2022-2026] (PDF): https://cdn.paris.fr/paris/2022/12/20/plan-strategique-pacte-parisien-de-lutte-contre-l-exclusion_compressed-RMBx.pdf
Combatting Exclusion [Lutte contre l’exclusion] (Webpage): https://www.paris.fr/pages/lutte-contre-l-exclusion-2434
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