SDG 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries

Show improvement in stage 3

· Availability of products and services for those on low incomes

· Access to financial services

· Equal remuneration for women and men

· Capacity building

· Diversity and equal opportunity

· Economic inclusion

· OHS Program Fundamentals Training

· Safety Basics Assessment

Actions for SDG 10

Participate in programs for the integration of people with the risk of social exclusion
Publicize public and private policies for this purpose.
Set the objective of enhancing and promoting inclusion within our accountability policy
Prohibit all forms of discrimination within the organization
Have frequent meetings with all employees to ensure social integration practices
Provide training for our employees on accessibility and reducing inequalities
Recruit, train and employ local community members, including those living in poverty, and integrate them in your value chain (as producers, suppliers, distributors, vendors)

Implement measures aimed at ensuring universal accessibility in the company ⬇

Create installations that ensure universal accessibility
Have gender-inclusive washrooms
Have universal access elements to common areas
Provide informational elements and objects in Braille
Adapt graphic and audiovisual materials to people with different abilities
Create environments where everyone has the same experience regardless of their abilities and background

Supporting local Small and Medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to distribute wealth throughout the territory ⬇

Facilitate access of SMEs to associations and groups that help them to be competitive
Promote the services and products of local SMEs
Partnerships with local SMEs to provide and/or outsource your services
Raise awareness about SMEs in your area by providing information and through campaigns
Invest in SMEs to support them in their financing activities

SDG 10 in Canada

Diversity in Canada ⬇

Canada is widely recognized as an inclusive, diverse, respectful multiethnic and multi-faith society with:

2 official languages, English and French
more than 200 ethnic origins and languages
20.6% of its population is foreign-born
religious diversity
approximately 1.7 million Indigenous
people who account for 5% of the total population, as of 2016
72,880 same-sex couples, as of 2016
1.7% of Canadian adults (aged 18 to 59) self-identify as homosexual and 1.3% as bisexual
14% of Canadians, or 3.8 million Canadians, aged 15 years or older report having a disability

Inequality in Canada ⬇

Like many other countries, income inequality in Canada is currently at a high level by historical standards.
As measured by the Gini coefficient market income, inequality increased sharply with recessions in the early 1980s and early 1990s but did not decrease over the periods of growth that followed. In addition, after-tax income inequality increased sharply starting in the second half of the 1980s, as the tax and transfer system ceased to offset rising market income inequality.
The market income share of the bottom 90% of income earners declined moderately from 67.8% in 1982 to 59.9% in 2015. However, their market income share has not changed substantially since 2000, with a low of 59.7% in 2007 and a high of 60.8% for each year between 2000 and 2003.

Nevertheless, this means that the top 10% of income earners have made a substantial gain in their share of market income since the 1980s. For Canada’s top 1%, their share of market income went from 7.6% in 1982 to a peak of 13.6% in 2006, before dropping over the 2008-2009 recession and returning to late 1990s levels (12.8% in 2015)
Despite progress over several decades, women in Canada remain under-represented in politics and leadership roles, earn less than men and experience high rates of harassment and gender-based violence—nearly 1 in 3 women experienced sexual harassment in the workplace
Certain groups face particular and disproportionate obstacles, including Indigenous, newcomer and migrant, and rural women and girls, women and girls with a disability, and LGBTQ2 and non-binary persons.
Discrimination is another dimension of inequity faced by some Canadians belonging to specific groups. In a 2014 survey on Canadians’ safety, 17% of immigrants reported experiencing discrimination in the previous five years, compared with 12% of Canadian-born respondents. Policereported hate crimes in Canada rose modestly between 2015 and 2016, up 47 to 1409 incidents; 48% were motivated by hatred of race or ethnicity and 13% targeted sexual orientation.
In 2018, the Government of Canada announced measures to increase the availability and reliability of gender and diversity data, including the creation of a Centre for Gender, Diversity and Inclusion Statistics.

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