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Welcome to the website of the Highlands and Islands Equality Forum
The Highlands & Islands Equality
Forum (HIEF) is a third sector project operating in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland that works
with others to enhance and protect equality and human rights. We do this through four main aims: - Promote equality and human rights
- Act as a first point of contact for information and support
- Connect people to share information, knowledge and experiences
and identify opportunities for collaboration
- Use
the information, views and experiences gathered to influence policy
The
types of services and support that HIEF offers in order to achieve these aims are outlined below. If you are
interested in what HIEF can offer, or think we can help in another way, then please feel free to get in touch with us using
the contact details at the bottom of this page.
Practical support for organisations HIEF offers tailored training, facilitation, public speaking and consultancy, including: - Recognising and challenging discrimination and infringement of rights
- Working with public agencies - using equality and human rights to evidence positive impact, strengthen funding
applications and challenge decisions
- Organisational development - using an equality
and human rights based approach
- Assessing impact - considering the effects of what
we do
- General awareness raising - introducing equality and human rights, raising
attitudinal awareness, and your legal rights and responsibilities
Information,
advice and signposting HIEF is a first point of contact for enquiries, advice and support, helping directly
where possible and signposting to others where appropriate. If you would like our help then please feel free to get in touch.
Roadshows and events HIEF roadshows and events take us around the region,
raising awareness of HIEF and SCVO services and providing opportunities for people to connect, access information and support,
and discuss the important issues in their own areas. We also organise or take part in other events as and when opportunities
arise. Information about a new programme of events for 2012 will be coming soon.
Forum
meetings and our online network In 2012 HIEF will be starting regular forum meetings, inviting people to come
along and discuss common interests, share ideas and experiences, identify opportunities for collaboration and develop collective
responses to policy issues. We also hope to support these meetings with an online forum and social networking opportunities.
More news about this will be coming soon, but in the meantime if this is something you would like to get involved in then
please let us know.
Strategic and policy work HIEF feeds the information, views and exeriences
it gathers from across its activities into important strategic and policy decision making, including the Highland Public Services
Partnership, the EHRC and SHRC regulatory bodies, and Scottish and UK Governments. We also feed into SCVO's
wider policy work to support the third sector in Scotland.
HIEF is an SCVO project part funded by the European Social Fund/Highlands & Islands Partnership Programme.
Contact
us:
HIEF SCVO Fairways House Fairways Business Park Inverness
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