Drivers for Change – Allocate Resources
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Advancing equity requires resources including funding, staffing, and time. Setting budget priorities is an important opportunity to align resources to advance equity. This might include utilizing existing funds, allocating more funding, and applying for grants. This also means protecting staff time to start, maintain, and sustain equity-based work.
Adapted from:
HealthEquityGuide.org – Allocate Resources. Retrieved from
https://healthequityguide.org/strategic-practices/allocate-resources/
Spring Tide Resources Inc. (2008). An Integrated Anti-Oppression Framework for Reviewing and Developing a Policy. Retrieved from:
https://endvaw.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/An-Integrated-Anti-Oppression-Framework-for-Reviewing-and-Developing-Policy-OAITH-2008.pdf
Further Reading / Additional Resources:
- OECD (2014), “How is Equity in Resource Allocation Related to Student Performance?” PISA in Focus, No. 44, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/5jxvl3zwbzwg-en . This article describes how high-performing countries and economies tend to allocate resources more equitably across socio-economically advantaged and disadvantaged schools
- Thomas J. Halverson & Margaret L. Plecki (2015) Exploring the Politics of Differential Resource Allocation: Implications for Policy Design and Leadership Practice, Leadership and Policy in Schools, 14:1, 42-66. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2014.983129. Based on a two-year study of how district leaders invest staffing resources to promote equity-focused improvements in student learning, this paper explores political dimensions of the policy design and implementation process.
Sample Tools:
HealthEquityGuide.org: How Can we Allocate Resources? Includes case studies that provide examples of resource allocation to drive equity action in health services as well as a list of actions to take to allocate resources.
https://healthequityguide.org/strategic-practices/allocate-resources/