Strategic enforcement

The working group on strategic inforcement aims at contributing to the effective implementation by equality bodies of their mandate through exchanging expertise, experience and information on the strategic enforcement of their powers. This objective is fulfilled by focusing on some of the specific roles and prerogatives of the specialized equality bodies including the ones listed in the EC directives (assistance to victims, conducting surveys, issuing reports and recommendations) and by converging those powers to the bodies that go beyond individual enforcement.

The Working Group seeks to explore which tools are available and which are most effective, the criteria for selecting and deploying a particular power, the experience on using these tools and powers, the ability to foresee and to tackle any problems or issues arising and the challenge of using limited resources in a context of unlimited demand.

The Working Group identifies strategies for the full enforcement of equal treatment legislation, for the effective application of the available powers at the specialized equality bodies’ level and for the development of specific tools and further actions.