Annual Report 2000.pdf (size 2.3 MB) - Equality Authority

Mainstreaming is developing rapidly in the Irish context. Gender
Mainstreaming is well established under the National Development Plan.
Poverty proofing guidelines have been developed to be applied across
major policy areas.Approaches to a wider equality proofing are being
piloted under the Programme for Prosperity and Fairness. Challenges
remain, including to:
• Develop approaches that can start at a relatively simple level and
evolve to a more complex forms as capacity grows.
• Develop approaches that could usefully be applied in the private
sector.
• Invest in building a capacity to mainstream in terms of both resources
and skills required.
• Build a coherence of approach in this area north and south, across the
island of Ireland so that the equivalence of rights promised in the
multi-party agreement can be achieved.
• Build a coherence and unity of approach across gender, poverty and
the wider equality agenda in terms of proofing processes.
Key Objective 3
Key Objective 3 - Annual Report 2000 - The Equality Authority page 67