Section 4: Gender mainstreaming case studies This section includes case studies from three institutions who have committed to gender mainstreaming their organisations: • APF secretariat • Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights • The Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines. Case Study 1: GENDER MAINSTREAMING WITHIN THE APF SECRETARIAT30 Background An independent donor evaluation of the APF (referred to as the Dwyer Review) in 2010, which was jointly commissioned by the New Zealand Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Australian Government’s aid agency, AusAID (as it was known then), found that: The APF does apply a gender analysis in program planning, delivery and evaluation. Members indicate that the APF has been influential in improving their capacity to deal with gender-related issues and offer examples of this. However, APF documentation does not sufficiently highlight that a gender focus is applied.31 Accordingly, the Dwyer Review recommended: • Better documentation of the gender focus be applied in strategic planning, capacity building and scoping missions • Capacity-development programs on gender mainstreaming be developed, and • That the APF develop a Plan for coordinating Member input to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) (recommendation 14, page 25). Since the Dwyer Review, the following gender equality and mainstreaming actions have been implemented by the APF: • In 2011, the APF Forum Council adopted the APF Gender Policy, which seeks to integrate gender into the APF’s strategic objectives, programs and activities. • Since 2011 the APF secretariat’s Deputy Director has been the APF Gender Focal Point to drive the work of the APF to achieve the gender equality priorities in the APF Strategic Plan. • In 2012, following the adoption of the Amman Declaration and Programme of Action on the Human Rights of Women and Girls: Promoting Gender Equality (the Amman Declaration), the APF adopted the APF Action Plan Human Rights of Women and Girls: Promoting Gender Equality (the Action Plan). • In 2014, APF Member and Stakeholder Situational Analysis Surveys were revised to include specific questions about gender and diversity, with this data utilised for the APF Annual Report and discussed at the APF Annual Meeting. 49