DISABILITY

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RACE
ASYLUM SEEKERS
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
EARLY SCHOOL LEAVERS
LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED
TRAVELLERS
MARITAL STATUS
FAMILY STATUS
DISABILITY
HOMELESS
AGE
GENDER
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EqualMainstreaming Policy Group

• 7th May, 2003
• Croke Park

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Profile Selected Projects
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Development Partners

• 191 Signatories.
• 9 partners on average per DP.
• all DPs with gt 10 partners in Theme a with one
  exception.

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Thematic Networks

• At National Level
• Employability - 10 Employability 1
  Entrepreneurship
• Adaptability 5 Adaptability 2 Equal
  Opportunities.

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Thematic Networks

• At EU Level
• Each Pillar has a network populated by DP
  members, policy-makers, experts, TSSs and
  projects from relevant member states.
• Feeding into European Employment Policy and
  broader social policy at EU level.

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Types of Mainstreaming Potential

• Process
• Product
• Policy
• Practice

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Government Departments Targeted
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Agencies Other Organisations Targeted
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Mainstreaming Potential (1)

• Innovative approaches to integrated service
  provision
• Ensuring equality in service provision
• Enhanced provider / employer relations
• Enhanced access to third level for atypical
  groups.

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Mainstreaming Potential (2)

• Inclusive HR practices
• Development of work-life balance measures
• Equality Standards Mark for providers and
  companies
• Training of Trainers
• Promoting diversity at work.

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Mainstreaming Potential (3)

• Lifelong learning mechanisms / roll-out
• Training HR Managers, Union Officials
• Benchmarking equality practices, Equality Audit /
  Diagnostic Tools
• Awareness raising
• Research
• Guidelines.

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Mainstreaming Potential (4)

• Tackling rural exclusion
• Alternative / innovative forms of
  self-employment
• Empowerment
• Partnership
• Policy practice re. migrant workers
• Policy practice re. Asylum Seekers.