Emakunde and Euskalit have announced, during the Semana Europea de la Gestión Avanzada the expansion of their Buscador de buenas prácticas en gestión : the collection of documented practices for embedding equality in organisations now comprises 122 practical examples. The event was opened that morning by Emakunde director Miren Elgarresta and Euskalit director Fernando Sierra.
New additions include experience from the public water agency URA, and from the organisations Gautena, OSI Uribe, Fundación Alday, Eroski, Urgatzi, Zubietxe, Elhuyar, Aspace, Orona, Lea Artibai and Lantegi Batuak. The organisers say the overview is intended to help companies and institutions adopt proven processes and adapt them to their own structures.
For around a decade, the Buscador de buenas prácticas en gestión has served as a shared showcase for the two institutions’ organisational solutions with a demonstrably positive impact on equality. Alongside case studies, the collection offers practical resources, including the Gestión Avanzada model and the Guía para un Aporte de Valor a la Gestión desde la Perspectiva de Género. Emakunde and Euskalit say their collaboration is based on the greater leverage of tools and clearly documented examples compared with general statements of intent.
Looking back on ten years of collaboration, specialists from Euskalit and Emakunde grouped the practical examples by theme: pay transparency; ways to involve people in promoting equality; links between equality and competitiveness; equality in innovation processes; preventing gender-based violence in the workplace; reducing pay and pension gaps; and achieving a balanced approach to working and caring hours. They clarified that the collection is curated and draws on robust results from individual organisations; general claims about impact still require independent evaluation.
As part of the conference programme, the organisations ran a transfer workshop: participants chose a specific good practice, analysed the conditions it depended on and outlined how it could be adapted to other contexts. The aim was to identify barriers to transferability and define steps that could be scaled up.
The initiative is rooted in the Basque Country’s economic and institutional environment. Euskalit has for years supported the spread of Gestión Avanzada in businesses and public administrations, while Emakunde links equality policy with organisational development. In the organisers’ view, combining collections of examples, guides and networking events helps businesses and institutions put these approaches into practice. Whether, and to what extent, this leads to measurable improvements in equality will need to be assessed in future evaluations by the organisations involved.
Editor: Mira Cadena (Article created with AI assistance).