The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions adopts the following gender objectives for integration in the APF’s strategic planning and performance reporting: 9. Enhance members’ institutional capacity to deliver gender equality; 10. Enhance members’ communication, cooperation and engagement on gender issues; 11. Promote gender equality through compliance with the Paris Principles; 12. Engage with regional and international gender related human rights mechanisms; and 13. Effectively and efficiently manage the APF to ensure gender equality. In accordance with APF’s Gender Policy, all APF program and project management should include the following steps to ensure the integration of gender equity considerations at different stages of program / project cycle. ▪ Gender analysis of the external environment and local factors supporting or inhibiting efforts for gender equity during planning, i.e. existing conditions for gender equity in the local context (member NHRI policies, strategies, recommendations from previous institutional and organisational assessments, relevant social and gender analysis – both by others and by the member) ▪ Development of gender equity monitoring and evaluation strategy leading to program gender equity results reporting, with indicators coordinated with APF Gender Scorecard. Some baseline data (sex-disaggregated) should be collected at the beginning of the project cycle. Final report to include best practices on gender mainstreaming acquired during implementation as well as socio-cultural obstacles encountered and the mechanisms used for mitigation and resolution of issues. The APF Gender Policy was adopted by the Forum Council at the APF’s 16th Annual Meeting.