The number of contesting organisations has been annually increasing . The Department of Family and Gender Policies of the Ministry of Labour , Social Affairs and Family of the SR also collaborates in the development of particular single programming documents for the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources ( SOP-HR ) and EQUAL ; it is committed to incorporate measures for promoting gender equality and combating discrimination in the programme documents ; it coordinates the implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy in the programmes funded from the Structural Funds ; MoLSAF SR manages the use of finances from the European Structural Funds , particularly through the SOP HR , whose general objective is to increase employment based on qualified and flexible labour force and through the Community Initiative EQUAL , designed to combat discrimination and the inequalities in the labour market .