Counted: Ethnic and Equality Data Collection for Malta
Project Funder: European Network Against Racism / European Commission
Malta is currently in the process of discussing and enacting a series of measures to promote equality not least on the ground of race and ethnic origin. Ethnic and Equality data collection remains a missing link in the proposed framework. Ethnic data will help us understand the ethnic composition of Malta. Equality data desegregated by ethnicity, regularly collected and published, would support the design, evaluation and monitoring of equality policy and measures according to relevant indicators. It would also empower anti-racist organizations to advocate based on inequalities identified. In the case of Malta, it would go some way into providing an evidence base for the claim that Maltese society is becoming increasingly diverse, a claim that whilst made at a political level has no current evidence on which to be based. The proposed project will:
The main activities of the project are:
The first project outputs are expected at the end of October 2015. To find out more about the project, please contact us at [email protected]
Malta is currently in the process of discussing and enacting a series of measures to promote equality not least on the ground of race and ethnic origin. Ethnic and Equality data collection remains a missing link in the proposed framework. Ethnic data will help us understand the ethnic composition of Malta. Equality data desegregated by ethnicity, regularly collected and published, would support the design, evaluation and monitoring of equality policy and measures according to relevant indicators. It would also empower anti-racist organizations to advocate based on inequalities identified. In the case of Malta, it would go some way into providing an evidence base for the claim that Maltese society is becoming increasingly diverse, a claim that whilst made at a political level has no current evidence on which to be based. The proposed project will:
- Close the knowledge gap on the effects of equality data on combatting discrimination.
- Raise awareness of the importance of data on ethnicity, identity as well as equality
- Advocate for ethnic data collection with relevant institutions
- Develop support for ethnic data collection
- Develop a rationale as to how ethnic data can support equality measures, and how such measures can in turn be measured against data collection on equality
The main activities of the project are:
- Development of advocacy materials for various policy makers and stakeholders on data on ethnicity, data on equality and their collection,
- A National Seminar and Training Session on ethnic data collection
- Working with national authorities including politicians and policy makers on the need to implement ethnic data collection in their work in order to support equality measures
The first project outputs are expected at the end of October 2015. To find out more about the project, please contact us at [email protected]
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