ECCAR’s Ten-Point-Plan of Action committed cities to monitor racism in the city, to establish an adequate system of data collection and to develop appropriate indicators.
In order to support the member cities, ECCAR started its efforts to establish a common framework for assessing the local situation in respect to racism and equality, as well as for the evaluation of the respective policies, their success and impact on individuals and society:
the ECCAR ADIX (Anti-Discrimination Index) project.

It aims at searching for a meaningful, non-rigid and flexible, but standardized model which can be applied according to capacity and resources, as well as according to the specifities a city has and faces. In order to carry out this task, the Steering Committee established a Working Group on Indicators, which currently exists of the President of ECCAR, UNESCO, the Cities of Botkryka (Sweden), Madrid (Spain) and Graz (Austria).

In a three-phases-evaluation cycle ECCAR ADIX is constructed in order to firstly measure distinction, restriction, exclusion or preference in the participation of people in all areas of public life at a certain place and moment, to secondly, assess adequacy of respective policies using the ECCAR ten point plan of action, and to thirdly, evaluate impact of policy.

The main targets of the ECCAR ADIX project are:
to promote, achieve and guarantee equality in a dynamic society (target: policy);

to liberate city dwellers from prejudices and socially constructed restrictions and categorisations to empower them to make effective use of their rights to develop their full personal potential, i.e. their human capital (target: individual);

and to monitor the development towards increasing social, economic and cultural wealth of the community as a whole (target: society).

The results of the survey are available as download: Results ADIX survey