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Mainstreaming
Mainstreaming is the phrase used to describe the systematic integration of equalities into all policy development, implementation, evaluation and review with a view to promoting diversity and equal opportunities. Each part of the organisation accepts its own responsibility for promoting equality of opportunity and challenging discrimination.
Minority ethnic group
This term is used to refer to people who belong to an ethnic group numerically smaller than the (white) majority ethnic group in the UK.
Monitoring
In this context 'monitoring' is a mechanism to measure the effectiveness of an equal opportunities policy and strategy. Monitoring in itself does not achieve equal opportunities. It is a means to an end. Monitoring is the process of collecting, storing, and analysing equalities data (gender, ethnicity and disability, for example). Unless the monitoring information is regularly reviewed and used to drive forward action or address inequality, it serves no purpose.
