NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming the Human Rights of Women and Girls into Our Everyday Work
5. Organisation structure
A gender mainstreamed NHRI …
Possible actions
• Has a designated division, unit or work program
focused on gender equality.
• Identify specific personnel with responsibility
for coordinating gender issues across the
NHRI – including facilitating the NHRI gender
mainstreaming strategy – and ensure that
the position/unit is appropriately skilled and
resourced and is mandated at the most senior
level of the NHRI.
• Has gender mainstreamed strategies, priorities
and practices throughout functional and portfolio
areas.
6. Funding and resourcing
A gender mainstreamed NHRI …
Possible actions
• Incorporates a gender perspective at all levels of
the budgetary process.
• Review process and outcomes of budget
processes to understand its impact on reducing/
increasing gender equality.
• Structures income and expenditure policy and
practices to promote gender equality.
• Uses special measures where necessary
to achieve gender equality in its resource
allocations.
• Promotes and protects gender equality in its
procurement practices and supply chains.
• Build in allocations for gender-specific and
gender mainstreaming initiatives in budget
frameworks.
• Strengthen the capability of finance staff to
undertake gender budgeting.
• Review the NHRI’s procurement practices and
supply chains to ensure gender ethical practices.
• Report annually on percentage of budget spent
on gender mainstreaming.
7. Monitoring and reporting
A gender mainstreamed NHRI …
Possible actions
• Monitors organisational gender mainstreaming
performance using gender disaggregated data.
• Ensure gender questions are included in annual
surveys or questionnaires.
• Documents and reports progress toward gender
equality in internal and external reporting.
• Ensure gender indicators are included in
monitoring, evaluation and reporting systems.
• Undertakes research aimed at developing an
evidence base for its work on gender and the
human rights of women.
• Identify what percentage of work had a
component that was either gender-specific or
relevant to gender mainstreaming.
• Involves diverse genders in planning and
conducting research/data gathering.
• Report on gender mainstreaming actions taken,
including collecting gender disaggregated data
and gender budgeting, in its annual reporting.
• Develops measurable outcomes and indicators
on gender equality work.
• Records, disaggregates and reports on genderbased data.
• Includes gender considerations in NHRI reporting
processes.
• Has staff who are able to apply a gender lens to
data gathering and reporting.
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