Equality and Human Rights Commission Strategic Plan 2016-19

The Equality and Human Rights Commission has an important role and powers that enable them to make a difference in British society. Their mandate is to challenge discrimination, promote equality of opportunity, and protect and promote human rights. In this Strategic Plan, they have set out an ambitious programme to further their aims over the next three years. Their dual roles as a National Equality Body and National Human Rights Institution underpin the four strategic aims developed to guide their work in 2016-19. These are: (1) Significant impact - to secure advances in equality and human rights in priority areas (2) A strong evidence base - to provide authoritative analysis and insight (3) Sustainable infrastructure - to ensure an effective and sustainable infrastructure to protect rights in practice (4) Improved capability - to be an expert, independent and authoritative national body Their evidence base comprises 'Is Britain Fairer?' and the equivalent reports for England, Scotland and Wales. They used these and other sources of information, such as work to monitor progress against international human rights treaty obligations and responses to the public consultation on the draft plan, to inform the areas on which they will be focusing our efforts from 2016-19.