Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit
Figure 27: Example of qualitative document review analysis
Audit Area
Audit Questions
Findings (from Fig 16)
Analysis of Key Themes
Q1: What information does the
Q2: Are there any gaps or questions
document provide about how the
that arise from the documentation?
NHRI promotes gender equality?
Documents
Strategic Plan 2021–2026; Operational Plan/Budget 2021; Annual Report 2020
1 NHRI’s
How well does the NHRI:
Strategic Plan 2021–2026
Strategic Plan 2021–2026
According to [list documents]:
1.1 integrate gender perspectives into
• Language, tone, images are
• One of six Commissioners are female
1 Gender is evident as a priority
structure
and
strategic statements and decision-
decision-
making processes?
making
1.2 gender mainstream strategies,
priorities and practices throughout
functional and portfolio areas?
1.3 balance gender representation at
the senior leadership level?
1.4 proactively promote and recruit
for gender equality at senior
leadership positions?
1.5 designate leadership responsibility
for the gender equality portfolio?
1.6 have a designated division, unit or
work program focused on gender
equality?
1.7 commit to ensuring gender
equality is integrated in operational
plans?
1.8 incorporate provisions for
gender equality at all levels of the
budgetary process?
gender inclusive
• Gender equality is included as a
strategic priority
• There is a designated gender
(16%)
• There is no evidence of a budget
specifically allocated for gender
priorities
portfolio at Commissioner /
Operational Plan & Budget 2021
Ombudsperson level
• The Chief executive is male. Two of
Operational Plan & Budget 2021
• Language, tone, images are
gender inclusive
• There is a work stream for gender
activities
Annual Report 2020
• Language, tone, images are
gender inclusive
• The outcomes of the gender work
stream are reported
eight senior leaders are female (25%)
• There is not a separate division /
portfolio focused on gender equality
• There does not appear to be a
budget allocated for the work stream
on gender activities
• There is no evidence of genderrelated indicators to measure
improvement of the NHRIs work
for the NHRI in strategic and
decision-making levels and in
workstreams (green).
2 There is inadequate commitment
to operationalising gender
priorities, e.g. lack of designated
division / person or budget
(grey).
3 There is a lack of gender balance
at Commissioner / senior
leadership levels (blue).
4 Monitoring, evaluating and
reporting on progress: While
gender activities are reported,
data is not disaggregated by
gender nor reported across
Annual Report 2020
the organisation’s functions /
• Data is not disaggregated by gender
portfolios (yellow).
• The impact of the NHRIs work on
(Note: some of these themes may
gender across all functional and
also be relevant for the other four
portfolio areas is not reported
audit areas)
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