Section III
PREVENTION OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

A. HIGHLIGHTS OF FY2002 BUDGET REQUEST FOR PREVENTION OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION

The agency's Prevention effort is a key component of the Commission's enforcement strategy. Activities carried out under the agency's outreach, education and technical assistance function are financed with the $233.4 million provided under the Comprehensive Enforcement Program. Prevention of employment discrimination includes outreach, education, and technical assistance to employees and employers in both the private and federal sector.

With the resources requested for fiscal year 2002, EEOC will engage in prevention activities aimed at accomplishing its GPRA measures. The following activities will focus on employers

• Conduct 1,200 consultations with employer stakeholders on operational and legal issues.
• Provide technical assistance to 50,000 private sector and federal sector employers through activities.
• Conduct 250 outreach events for employers encouraging their participation in EEOC's mediation program.
• Provide education and information materials for 5,000 small employers with approximately 15-99 employees.
• Develop and implement an outreach plan to provide education and technical assistance and proactively distribute EEOC's education and information materials to small private sector employers and federal sector employers.
• Conduct at least 120 outreach, education or other technical assistance activities to assist federal agencies make EEO program improvements, including establishing alternative dispute resolution programs throughout the EEO process
• Conduct 20 on-site evaluations of federal agency EEO programs.
• Conduct 3,900 consultations with employee stakeholders on operational and legal issues.
• Provide education and information materials to 30,000 employee representatives, including representatives from under-served groups or communities
• Implement an outreach plan to inform under-served constituencies of their rights, and to proactively distribute educational and informational materials to employee stakeholders.
• Make 15 additional publications available in an alternate format and translated into 7 alternate languages.
• Make information about employment discrimination and the federal EEO procedures available for the approximately 2 million federal employees, using EEOC's web site and other innovative means.
• Provide EEOC informational materials to federal sector employees and major employee groups identified in the prior fiscal year(s) and give appropriate follow-up assistance.

Section III Discussion

The following subsections discuss the budget request in further detail and provide the fiscal year 2002 GPRA measures for the two program areas covered in Section III: Outreach, Education and Technical Assistance to Employers and to Employees. We have included in Appendix C-4 EEOC's Fiscal Year 2000 Annual Performance Report under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) describing accomplishments in fiscal year 2000.

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