In recent years, there has been a shift in focus within the UK-based charitable sector's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) agendas from equality to equity. Although equality is not altogether absent, it is equity that is now most often emphasised within organisational policies. This is most likely attributable to the way equality is understood within the sector. Nevertheless, when organisations whose practice is underpinned by Christian theology adopt this shift towards equity without interrogating the implications of doing so, there is a danger of losing both the richness and challenge that theological understandings of equality can contribute to organisational practice. Focusing specifically on the international development sector in the UK, this article explores how theological understandings of equality and equity can be brought together with sectoral understandings to positively shape organisational practice. The article is rooted in Catholic Social Teaching, since this offers a helpful theological framework for faith-based organisations underpinned by Christian theology to understand the significance of the ‘E’ in EDI.
Kurlberg et al. (Tue,) studied this question.