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Equal Opportunities and Sustainable Development: promoting cross-cutting themes
The cross-cutting themes of Equal Opportunities and Sustainable Development are at the heart of the European Social Fund. All projects in receipt of ESF, should have policies and strategies in place to take forward these themes – ensuring that no-one is discriminated against and the environment and sustainability are considered operationally.
In practice however, cross-cutting themes are often under developed and as a result, many projects are marked down when externally assessed. Fortunately for those projects that need some guidance, ESF-Works interviewed Patrick Eastwood from West Midlands Councils about implementing the cross-cutting themes.
Patrick is the Cross-Cutting Themes Monitoring Officer for West Midlands Councils and works with projects throughout the West Midlands to ensure that their policies and strategies have the cross-cutting themes at the heart of their work. Watch the interview with Patrick and learn how you can improve the delivery of your project.
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Load videoDiscover what is meant by ‘cross cutting themes’ and what is happening in the West Midlands (loaded)
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Load videoCommon issues found when applying Equal Opportunities (loaded)
Load videoWhat you can do better when applying cross-cutting themes (loaded)
Load videoFind out how a project in Coventry improved their policy and practice (loaded)
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Load videoWhy having cross-cutting themes policies is important to your project (loaded)
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Date of interview: 06/07/2010
Length: 17 minutes
Download: transcript of the interview
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