This toolkit provides a set of practical modules, skills, and tools necessary for formulating and implementing public policies and programmes based on equality. The toolkit also reviews the process of mainstreaming equality into policies and programmes and the conditions for their success.  In addition, it examines the importance, requirements and principles of a participatory based approach to policymaking and provides practical examples on how to mainstream equality in the policy evaluation process and during the reform of current social and economic policies. The toolkit also showcases a set of global experiences that have succeeded in mainstreaming equality within their socio-economic policies.