Equal-Works

Ethnic minorities

Definition: Opportunities to promote potential for ethnic minorities within the world or work, by combating racism and xenophobia in relation to the labour market.

Theme B partnerships were about the employment opportunities of ethnic minorities and have covered a wide range of employability, job-creation and diversity work. Partnership topics have ranged from positive action programmes and diversity help for employers to tackling barriers faced by refugee and migrant communities. Products include marketing and information websites in the creative industries, toolkits on the benefits of diversity, policy and practice reports on employment and diversity, and diversity learning materials and qualifications.

Further information:

• ECOTEC Thematic update paper: Theme B
• Theme B mainstreaming stategy

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ESSENCE - The Bollywood Dance Spectacular >> Project Essence is an artist development project created in Tower Hamlets by young people, to create a difference and a mainstream opportunity for young people.

Fairness and Equality for All People - FEAP >> Open House (UK) was a member of Fairness and Equality for All People - FEAP transnational partnership with Interkultureller Kommunaler Aktionsplan - IKAP (Austria), AGIR CONTRE LES DISCRIMINATIONS RACIALES DANS UN PARCOURS D'INTEGRATION SOCIALE (France) and DiverCidade (Portugal).

Film and Media Employment >> This project involves research into overcoming barriers to diversity in the UK film and media industry.

Geminschaftliche EP Nachaltigkeit und Innovation im Arbeitsmarkt - GENIA >>The GENIA development partnership focuses on urban as well as rural structures in the Wiser-Ems region.

Graduate Programme >>The graduate programme provides individual portfolio building, structural support and access to networks, showcasing and profiling.

Healthcare ESOL Language Model >> The DP has been designing, developing and testing an innovative ESOL language model set in the context, culture and language of the healthcare sector.

Hi8Us >>Hi8Us provides professional training in illusrtaion while supporting beneficiaries into industry.

Hot Topics >>Diversity in Practice explore various 'hot topic' issues such as gender equality, discrimination and overcoming barriers to equal opportunity employment.

Improving the situation of women in the labour market >> This cluster has been focusing on the issues of: inactivity rates for BME women: BME women have high inactivity rates, particularly Pakistani and Bangladeshi women family commitments of BME women, particularly childcare, where large families may make it difficult for BME women to be committed to a full-time job women in isolated homes, where there may be patriarchy and cultural/religious barriers domestic violence and child abuse and their impact on BME women skills of BME women: knowing what skills are needed by employers for specific jobs and providing training to acquire these skills supporting women when in actual employment and helping them to deal with racism.

Interethnical Entrepreneurship >> Interethnical Entrepreneurship is the transnational project set up by Minority Business Diaspora Interchange.

Mananging diversity - Digitalife >>Digitalife is a private training organisation that developed an on-line qualification in 'Managing Diversity'.

Media Training North West (MTNW) - The Game Plan >>The focus of the Game Plan has both a BME and gender target audience, in particular focusing on the grotesque under-representation of both women and BME workers in the dynamic games industry.

Moseley Sounds Recordings >>Moseley Sounds recordings provides music training in a professional environment to young people.

Multicultural Family Base and Outdoor Education Employment Opportunities >>Multicultural Family Base and Outdoor Education Employment Opportunities.

New Developments for CREATE Positive Action Training >> The aims of this project have been to: Work with PATH West Midlands to test new resources for diversity management and positive action.

Northwest Muslim Creatives >>The primary aim for Northwest Vision and Media was to develop and test the effectiveness of a variety of strategies and interventions that empower and enable BME/minority talent to access training and business support in order to upskill and compete in a competitive marketplace for jobs and employment opportunities within the media sector.

One World Quilt Project >>The aim of the project was to deliver a series of sustainable development education and training workshops to promote benefits, resources and employment opportunities within the built and natural environment.

Pathways to employment – Asian Disability Network (AND) >>ADN identified a need to equip employers with information on the needs of disabled people who face discrimination in gaining employments.

Pato Banton, Music Links >>Pato Banton is a significant and highly successful black role model within the Birmingham music scene, still making and selling his music world-wide.

Playzone – Playzone >>Playzone is a voluntary organisation established by a group of women in the local community who shared common interests.

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