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Mainstreaming Racial Equality
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A Checklist for an Assembly Member
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| What is mainstreaming? |
- Mainstreaming equality concerns the integration
of equal opportunities principles, strategies and
practices into every day work - in plenary as well
as committees. It involves 'every day' policy actors
as well as equality specialists and entails rethinking
mainstream provision from an equality perspective.
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- It is a long-term strategy to frame policies in
terms of the realities of people's daily lives and
to change organisational cultures and structures accordingly.
It puts people and their diverse needs and experiences
at the heart of policy-making and thinking.
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- It leads to better representation, and ultimately
government, through better informed policy-making,
scrutiny, and greater transparency and openness in
the policy process. It helps to tackle democratic
deficit by encouraging wider participation in the
policy process through effective consultation mechanisms.
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- As a process, it tackles the structures in society
which contribute to or sustain discrimination and
disadvantage.
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- The application of a mainstreaming approach can
avoid the adoption of policies and programmes which
replicate discrimination and disadvantage and exacerbate
existing inequalities.
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- Mainstreaming complements lawful positive action
designed to address the historic and current impact
of discriminatory structures and practices.
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