Common use of Equity Decision Making Clause in Contracts

Equity Decision Making. The Authority shall advance equity and social justice in its processes, policies, and outcomes by proactively seeking to eliminate racial- ethnic disproportionalities in the population experiencing homelessness and to eliminate disparities in outcomes for people experiencing homelessness by addressing structural racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny and other sources of inequities. The Authority shall establish and operate under an equity-based decision-making framework to inform its policy, business process, and funding decisions. This equity-based decision- making framework shall provide for inclusion of Customers of the service system in decisions that will affect them; specify a framework for examining policy, business process, and funding decisions with an explicit equity and racial justice analysis; and shall establish processes to measure, evaluate, and respond to the impact of its decision-making on its goals of advancing equity. This framework shall be informed by people with Lived Experience and be approved by the Implementation Board of the Authority.