Purpose: Since 2014, the City of Geneva has been developing a public policy on cultural diversity and fight against racism. Placed among its priorities by the Administrative Council (executive of the City of Geneva), the policy aims, more specifically, to create conditions conducive to the integration of migrants and foreign nationals, working in particular to open up the host society and its institutions, as well as to fight against all forms of racial discrimination and discrimination based on ethnic origin, nationality, beliefs or residence status.
Stimulus: In 2020, the evaluation of the 2016-2020 roadmap was published. It was the city's first roadmap on this issue and it included 4 priority areas and 18 objectives. The assessment positively evaluated the main actions carried out and emphasised the need to continue to pursue these objectives transversally. Based on the assessment, it was decided to renew the initiative for the following legislature: 2020-2025.
Process: The new roadmap for the 2020-2025 legislature was adopted by the Administrative Council in 2022 under the title "Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism Policy". It focuses on five priority areas: welcoming, accessibility, non-discrimination, responsibility and participation. Coordinated by the Agenda 21 - Sustainable City department, it was developed jointly with the City of Geneva's Diversity Network (Rédige) and the departments concerned, on the basis of a questionnaire sent to all the departments in the administration.
Impact: The 2020-2025 roadmap presents the objectives pursued to translate into actions the priorities of the policy on cultural diversity and anti-racism adopted by the Administrative Council. It aims at developing synergies and coherence between the projects and actions underway in the various departments and services of the municipal administration, and at providing a tool for evaluating the public policy over a five-year period.
Main reference documents: Municipal Policy on Cultural Diversity and Anti-Racism and Anti-Racism Policy - Roadmap for the 2020-2025 Legislature (French). Information on the policy since its beginnings: Presentation and history of the diversity policy in Geneva | City of Geneva - Official site (French).
