Valencia, September 1, 2025.- The Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency (AVAF) has approved its first Equality Plan, whose overall objective is to consolidate an organizational culture committed to equality, eliminating any structural, mental, or customary barriers that hinder the full development of this principle.

 

The First Equality Plan will be in force for four years and applies to all AVAF staff. The text was drafted on the basis of a detailed participatory diagnosis carried out in May 2023, with the involvement of the entire workforce, using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The diagnosis identified as areas for improvement specific training on equality, as well as the perception that reconciliation of work and personal life may affect the professional opportunities of some employees.

 

The plan includes 19 lines of action structured around the following strategic areas:

• Access to employment and career development: Ensure procedures and selection bodies incorporate equality and transparency, reinforcing equality training for the staff involved.
• Shared responsibility in work-life balance: Promote the full and shared exercise of personal, family, and work rights without undermining professional promotion, including measures such as the right to digital disconnection.
• Equality training: Promote the inclusion of a gender perspective in all internal and external training programs.
• Balanced presence in decision-making bodies: Raise awareness to ensure the balanced representation of women and men in collegiate and decision-making bodies.
• Prevention and protection against sexual harassment and harassment based on sex: Permanent dissemination of protocols, awareness campaigns, and psychological support, guaranteeing a safe environment and zero tolerance for such behavior.
• Pay equality: Continue guaranteeing, through review and monitoring systems, the absence of wage discrimination on the grounds of sex.
• Monitoring and evaluation: Establish a joint commission responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reviewing the effective implementation of the plan, its indicators, and regulatory updates.
• Labor rights of victims of gender-based violence: Promote awareness and exercise of rights and specific support protocols through training and awareness campaigns.
• Mainstreaming and inclusive communication: Extend the gender perspective to all areas, campaigns, and communications, reviewing institutional language and images to ensure they are non-sexist.

The execution and evaluation of the plan will be entrusted to a joint commission made up of representatives of the entity and of the workforce, responsible for conducting annual monitoring, as well as evaluations at the two- and four-year marks.

 

With this initiative, the Valencian Anti-Fraud Agency aligns its equality policies with regional, national, and European regulations. For further information, the full text of the First Equality Plan is available at the following link.