Contents Acknowledgements 2 Foreword 3 Introduction to the Guidelines 5 Section 1: An introduction to gender mainstreaming and the human rights of women and girls 9 1.1. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 9 1.2. Gender mainstreaming and gender specialisation 10 1.3. Why gender mainstreaming is important for NHRIs 11 Section 2: Developing an NHRI gender mainstreaming strategy 15 2.1. Phases of a gender mainstreaming strategy 15 2.2. Principles of a gender mainstreaming strategy 17 2.3. Planning and designing a gender mainstreaming strategy 18 2.4. Implementing a gender mainstreaming plan 26 2.5. Evaluating a gender mainstreaming strategy 28 Section 3: Gender mainstreaming in an NHRI 33 3.1. Gender mainstreaming the culture and international operations of an NHRI 35 3.2. Gender mainstreaming the external work of an NHRI 39 Section 4: Gender mainstreaming case studies Case Study 1: Gender mainstreaming within the APF secretariat 49 49 Case Study 2: Gender audit of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Human Rights 53 Case Study 3: Participatory gender audit of the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines 55 Endnotes 57 1