When considering fair policies, it is important to place greater emphasis on the assessment stage: beyond the policy objectives, what must take precedence are the results. Yet this is one of the weak points of policy analysis, either because the policies are recent and assessment at the early stages, or because the aspects assessed are not necessarily designed to describe the role played by the policy in resolving certain situations of injustice.

The initiative of the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean is an invitation to government entities not only to show and pool initiatives that have led to the implementation of policies that are fair from a gender perspective, but also to emphasize how these policies are observed, analysed and assessed. This is intended to promote discussion of fair policies and how they can potentially be replicated. As soon as the aim is to achieve justice and a policy becomes a way of achieving this, any examination must not content itself with describing a policy simply rated as fair.

This matrix proposes an assessment of the capacity of public policies to tackle: (a) socioeconomic injustice (expressed in the unfair distribution of goods and resources, (b) legal and cultural injustice (manifested in the cultural domain (Fraser, 1996)), and (c) representation injustice (referring to State jurisdiction and the rules governing conflict).