Toolset: Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment Guide
The Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment (EHRIA) Guide was developed to help Aberdeen City Council through the assessment process enabling them to carry out a comprehensive and robust EHRIA on the Council’s policies and functions. It should be used in association with the corresponding form: Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment: the Form.
The Guide describes impact assessment as an integral part of the process of policy development, which helps to provide a well-balanced and well thought-out policy. The Equality and Human Rights Impact Assessment helps to assess the impact of the Council’s policies, procedures and functions on the diverse groups within Aberdeen City. It ensures the Council meets the commitments set out in its Race, Disability and Gender Equality Schemes and also helps it to maximise opportunities to promote equality and good community relations.
The aim of the EHRIA is to promote equality of opportunity and the equality target groups and related equality strands are
- people with disabilities (disability equality)
- women, men and transgender people (gender equality)
- people from ethnic minorities including refugees and Gypsies/Travellers (race equality)
- lesbians, gay men and bisexual people (sexual orientation equality)
- people from different religions or with different beliefs (religion / belief equality)
- younger and older people (age equality)
Bibliographic Details
Author: Aberdeen City Council
Publisher: 2008, Aberdeen City Council
The Eight Step Approach is a comprehensive HRIA framework that provides a cyclic approach to policy development and project management.
This toolset covers the following steps:
