Strategic Planning and Equality Bodies: Selected examples of Good Practice

This report presents some examples from equality bodies on strategic planning in order to inspire and inform others.

Many equality bodies have adopted a strategic plan to guide their work, and Equinet’s Working Group on Strategy Development decided to focus on strategic planning during 2014 – partly to ascertain what is happening in relation to strategic planning and partly to ensure the sharing of good practice by equality bodies in this important area. The Working Group had two meetings in 2014 considering issues related to strategic planning and undertook a survey of Equinet members to collect information about practices relating to strategic planning. The main questions of the survey have been used to structure this report, covering the areas of:

• benefits and potential challenges of strategic plans;
• consultation as a step in the preparation of strategic plans;
• structuring and content of strategic plans;
• selecting priorities for the strategic plans; and
• monitoring the implementation and evaluating the impact of the strategic plan.