Glossary of Terms Used by The Racial Equity Index
We will continue to add to this glossary as we progress through our work.
Global Development
A sector that comprises international development organisations, charities, and non-governmental organisations including funders and for-profit institutions.
Racial Equity
Racial equity refers to both the process and the outcome that results from fair and just inclusivity of people of all races, taking into deliberate consideration all the historical and current inequities experienced by individual racial groups.
Racism
Belief, practices and upholding of a social, cultural, political and economic system that reproduces a racial hierarchy which benefits white people and oppresses Black, Brown and Indigenous people.
Refers to just relations between individuals, groups, and society where all people of all groups have equal access to wealth, well-being, health, privileges and opportunities regardless of their legal, political, geographical or economic circumstances.
Social Justice
A political, economic and cultural system where those racialised as white overwhelmingly control power and material resources, where conscious and unconscious ideas of white superiority and entitlement are widespread and beliefs of white dominance and non-white subordination are re-enacted regularly across a broad array of social settings.