The project Planning Coordinator/in Poverty Prevention in the district of Nordhausen builds on the experiences, findings and results of the first funding period. On the basis of the rural district’s poverty prevention strategy, the implementation process of integrated social planning is further designed – the goal of integrated social planning is to further improve the needs-based design and qualitative development of social services in the district of Nordhausen. In the funding period October 2018 – June 2022, the focus is on the implementation of the Poverty Prevention Strategy. Various objectives are derived from the main objective of the project to combat and prevent long-term unemployment and resulting poverty situations. Poverty prevention as a cross-cutting task requires interdisciplinary and cross-departmental planning and therefore intensive cooperation. Systematic communication and networking increases effectiveness and facilitates the implementation of projects. For this purpose, local institutions and actors from social work (e.g. sponsors and municipalities) are permanently involved in social spatial structures. The participatory inventory and analysis increases the quality of social planning, through active participation of actors and stakeholders, the knowledge of specific life contexts is included in qualitative assessments and thus continuously taken into account in social planning processes. Existing working and networking structures are used and further developed. The mainstreaming of gender equality in all phases of project implementation will take particular account of the ESF cross-cutting objective ‘Equality between women and men’.