The tribunal enforces the various Norwegian equality and anti-discrimination acts:

• the Gender Equality Act, 
• the Act on Prohibition of Discrimination on the basis of ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, skincolour, language, religious and ethical orientation (the Discrimination Act),
• the Act on Prohibition of Discrimination on the basis of disability (Discrimination and Accessibility Act)
• the anti-discrimination regulations in the Labour Environment Act (these regulations protect against labour market-related discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, age, political views and membership of a trade union),
• the anti-discrimination regulations in the housing legislation

The Ombud is an independent agency with the task of promoting equality and combatting discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability and age. The Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud shall also actively promote equality for all discriminated groups under within the scope of its mandate and develop new knowledge through documentation and monitoring. The Ombud enforces the various Norwegian equality and anti-discrimination acts. It is also a control body for ensuring compliance with Norwegian gender equality law, and it monitors Norwegian implementation of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

In the government the Minister for Children, Equality and Social Inclusion has the special responsibility of being the ministry responsible for gender equality issues. The work of the Ministry centres on efforts to ensure genuine equal opportunities for men and women. The ministry promotes the work of mainstreaming a gender perspective in the national budget.

The Government will combat all forms of discrimination. Everyone has a right to self-development and to utilise his/her abilities and live his/her own life, irrespective of gender, social background, religion, sexual orientation, disability or ethnic background. The Ministry of Children and Equality is responsible for coordinating the Government’s family and equality policies and legislation in this area.

Gender equality is also to be mainstreamed in all the work of the state’s central administration. The ministries have the responsibility of promoting gender equality in all their areas of activity. Some ministries and public officies have gender equality as a explicit theme or organisation :

• Ministry of Education and Research
• The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad)
  
  

There are 19 counties in Norway. The county governors submit annual reports to their principal, the Ministry of Government Administration and Reform, on the tasks assigned to them. One of these tasks is to fulfil their obligation of actively promoting gender equality as laid down in the Gender Equality Act. With a view to strengthening these efforts, the Ministry of Children and Equality has given the Northern Feminist University funds for a training programme for county governors’ offices on fulfilling their obligation of active gender equality advancement in their role as advisors to municipalities. This training is offered to staff at both leadership and executive officer level and takes place at the various offices.

Many municipalities have gender equality focal points - some have gender equality units, some have gender equality consultants, and some gender equality committees. Other municipalities have decided to mainstream gender equality without focal points.

The website Gender Balance in Research - Norway is a resource for those who work for an improved gender balance in the research sector, and those who are interested in issues on gender equality in science.

Today there are more than 50 crisis centres in Norway. There are crisis centres in every county, and the number of centres in each county varies from one to eight. The size, organisation and ownership of the centres vary from one centre to another. All the shelters in Norway are based on public funding. Before 20% of the total budget was financed by the Local authorities and the remaining 80 % was financed by the Central government, through the Ministry of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion. From 2011 the shelters will be financed 100 % by the municipalities.
Some crisis centres are also centres for victims of incest. The centres provide advice, support and counselling for persons who have been subjected to mistreatment, violence or abuse at home. They also provide temporary shelter for victims and their children. In addition to crisis centres there are two DIXI resource centres for rape victims, which provide assistance for victims of rape and their next-of-kin.

Pro Sentret (the Pro Centre) is a Norwegian national resource centre on all matters related to prostitution. As a social service centre for men and women in prostitution the Pro Centre's main aims are to provide help, support and advice to women and men in prostitution.

Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies develops and disseminates knowledge and competence in the field of violence and traumatic stress.
The centre’s objective is to help prevent and reduce the health-related and social consequences that can follow from exposure to violence and traumatic stress.
The centre emphasizes issues related to ethnicity and dimensions of age and gender.

The Norwegian Centre for Minority Health Research (NAKMI) is a governmental unit initiated by the Ministry of Health. The aim of NAKMI is to become a meeting point for minority health issues in Norway, especially for competence concerning somatic and mental health care of immigrants and refugees.

Norad’s mandate is to promote effective management of funds for development assistance and ensure that Norwegian development cooperation is quality assured and evaluated. Norad has two main roles in Norwegian development cooperation:  It acts as technical advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian embassies and it administers assistance for civil society. In the past few years Norwegian development cooperation has reflected an attempt to reorient activities related to women and gender equality.

The committee is appointed by the Storting, the Norwegian Parliament. The committee's responsibilities are matters relating to families, children and youth, gender equality, consumer affairs and cultural affairs.

The Minister of Justice together with the Minister for Children and Equality, and the Minister of Health and Care are establishing a separate committee on rape. The committee will identify factors that contribute to rapes not being reported, propose measures and strategies to increase the rate of reported rape, assess how alternative conflict resolution strategies can be applied in rape cases and assess the situation of rape victims, both female and male, with various disabilities, minority backgrounds, and experience of prostitution.

A committee appointed by The Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs will look into the organisation of agencies, institutions and instruments in the film area. The committee shall among other things, look into measures to promote gender equality in the film industry.

The Commission shall work to attain the gender equality goal that women and men shall receive equal pay, irrespective of their gender. It shall describe pay differences between women and men, provide an overview over gaps in knowledge, analyse the grounds for pay differences, and consider and appraise measures that can contribute to correcting the gendered imbalance in pay. The Commission shall also study fulltime vs. part-time work as an aspect when considering the gendered inequality in pay. The Commission shall deliver its report by the 1st of March 2008.

The Committee will support and provide recommendations on measures that can contribute to the mainstreaming of the gender equality efforts at the institutions within the university and college sector as well as the research institute sector.

The Norwegian Centre for Human Rights - NCHR - is an independent national human rights institution, a centre for national and international research on human rights, a centre which promotes rights-based development and a centre for human rights education. The NCHR is a centre within the University of Oslo, Norway.