Creating more just and equitable social service systems, many of which are rooted in historic and systemic wrongs, requires solutions that center diversity, equity, and inclusion. The GPL is committed to increasing diversity, improving equity, and fostering inclusion (DEI) in our core work with governments, from the way we select projects to how we execute them. To learn more about how the GPL addresses DEI in our internal work, such as how we hire and train our staff, click here.
The GPL uses a set of tools and practices to help our staff and the governments we support integrate a DEI lens across all stages of service delivery improvement. This includes a focus on identifying and addressing disparities and disproportionalities in resource allocation, who receives services, and service outcomes.
The GPL’s DEI tools include:
1. Surfacing opportunities to advance equity: Tools and resources to facilitate conversations about equity between government stakeholders and to surface opportunities to advance equity in government work.
2. Incorporating client voice: Tools and resources for conducting qualitative surveys, interviews, and focus groups that ensure historically marginalized or vulnerable populations' views and lived experiences inform efforts to diagnose, analyze, and address problems.
3. Conducting equity-focused data analysis: Tools and methods for disaggregating data by race, socioeconomic status, and other variables to identify disproportionalities and disparities in who receives services and who services are working for, followed by identifying strategies that governments can employ to reduce inequities uncovered by the analysis. This also includes selecting performance measurements to track progress toward improving outcomes for residents.
