The EQUAL Initiative: Development Partnerships
EQUAL funds activities implemented by strategic partnerships. These are called Development Partnerships and operate within the thematic fields. Development Partnerships bring together interested actors, with relevant competence, to co-operate in the development of integrated approaches to multi-dimensional problems. The partners work together to identify the factors leading to inequality and discrimination in the labour market. They pool their efforts and resources in pursuit of innovative solutions to jointly defined problems and common goals.
Development Partnerships are either geographical partnerships or sectoral partnerships. Geographical partnerships bring together relevant actors in a given geographical area, for example a city, a defined rural area, a local authority area or a travel-to-work area. Sectoral partnerships cover particular economic sectors or industries. If justified, they may relate to one or more specific group amongst those subject to discrimination or inequality.
