performance over the last 12 months against the organisation‘s strategic objectives. A half yearly performance review also provides an ongoing view of its performance using a streamlined approach to evaluating its progress to assist the APF in finetuning its activities during the course of the year. This annual and half yearly reporting is based on a framework of indicators measuring the outputs and outcomes delivered by the APF in pursuit of its strategic objectives. Some of the metrics used in the APF Measurement and Reporting Framework lend themselves to gender disaggregation, potentially providing information on progress in achieving APF gender objectives. For instance, training quality and relevance metrics could be gender disaggregated. However, many of the metrics represent institutional positions and are less amenable to gender analysis. Notwithstanding this there is potential to develop specific quantitative measures of gender mainstreaming performance from members, particularly about the gender make up of their workforce profile and the resourcing of specialist gender functions. An important task for the Gender Focal Point will be to identify measures of gender mainstreaming performance, where reliable data is available, and to integrate these into the APF Measurement and Reporting Framework to provide an evidence basis for future gender planning. An improvement in the measurement of gender equity outcomes should be anticipated as projects and programs apply a gender analysis in accordance with the APF Gender Policy. 15.7 APF Forum Council Resolution as Gender Policy In establishing the scope of a gender policy commitment the APF is faced with two options: • • it can pursue a narrow scope governing the activities conducted on behalf of the Forum Council by the secretariat; or it can opt for a broad scope encompassing the activities of its member institutions. The narrow scope allows very clear but limited policy commitments to be made, largely concerning the integration of a gender perspective into program design. To a significant extent this governance function can be relegated to a process document, such as the draft APF Gender Mainstreaming Practice Note, supplemented by a commitment to a suite of gender objectives, such as those drafted above. To arrive at a broadly scoped APF Gender Policy a consensus position across the APF membership on a range of culturally and politically sensitive issues needs to be achieved. In this the World Health Assembly resolution WHA60.2 serves as an example of how a multilateral commitment on gender can be phrased to be relatively concrete and practical. The resolution has two aspects, firstly a policy aspect addressing the member States of WHO and secondly an operational aspect addressing the WHO organisation.