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A gender mainstreaming scorecard driving organisational planning and
reporting (UNDP);
A council resolution that serves as a strong, concrete gender mainstreaming
policy commitment (WHO);
Gender equality frameworks to integrate gender analysis into programs and
projects (CIDA); and
A senior management gender focal point to establish accountability (UNDP).
The following sections describe how these elements might be applied by the APF,
indicating where existing APF practice already partially puts these elements into
practice.
15.5 APF Gender Objectives
Developing gender objectives aligned to the APF‘s five strategic objectives promotes
viewing all APF activities through a ‘gender lens’ without distorting the broad range
of issues faced by the APF. For instance, the following draft APF gender objectives
would commit the APF to work across each of its five strategic objectives on
initiatives that help members to achieve gender equality:
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Enhance members’ institutional capacity to deliver gender equality;
Enhance members’ communication, cooperation and engagement on gender
issues;
Promote gender equality through compliance with the Paris Principles;
Engage with regional and international gender related human rights
mechanisms; and
Effectively and efficiently manage the APF to ensure gender equality.
Because these draft APF gender objectives are closely aligned with the existing suite
of APF Strategic Objectives, their pursuit through program and project management
would be fully integrated, as would gender performance measurement. This would
help to ensure that gender issues are mainstreamed and not managed as ‘standalone’ objectives.
These gender objectives also provide a framework for the existing APF programs
responding to women‘s rights and gender identity. For instance, the program of
advocacy on NHRI participation at CSW clearly delivers under the fourth gender
objective and the APF-UNFPA project on reproductive rights delivers against the
first. By allocating existing gender initiatives to these goals it is possible to create a
draft gender equity plan highlighting areas of existing strength and to identify areas
that may require additional planning.
15.6 APF Gender Mainstreaming Scorecard
The APF undertakes a rigorous approach to evaluating its progress in achieving its
strategic objectives. Based on the information provided by its members and other
key stakeholders, the APF Annual Report presents an assessment of its