Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit
Step 3: Peer moderation
Peer moderation involves comparing your findings to those that others have made to ensure you are reviewing
consistently as a team. Once you have completed a number of documents, get others in the team to check
over your findings and you check over theirs. Not all documents need to be moderated; a small selection
is adequate. Discuss any potential differences in how you are reviewing and how you might manage those
differences.
Step 4: Review of findings
Once the document review has been completed, discuss as an audit team what you have found out and what is
still left to know, such as:
• Are your questions being answered?
• Has the review raised additional questions?
• Are there areas you wish to highlight in the survey and focus groups?
Example
The document review shows that while planning documents state the NHRI’s commitment to integrating
gender equality into its decision-making processes, the senior leadership team is predominately male.
You want to know how a female perspective contributes to your NHRI’s decision-making. You decide to
include this question as a discussion topic in the focus groups.
If more than one of the GAT members have been involved in the document review, combine your results
into one document ready for analysis. Store the data in a safe place until you are ready to analyse it.
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