4. Detention monitoring A gender mainstreamed NHRI … Possible actions • Includes a specific focus on women and girls when monitoring and reporting on places of detention. • Ensure an appropriate (intersectional) gender composition, expertise and experience among members of detention monitoring groups. • Has staff who are sensitive to the specific issues facing women and girls in detention and are competent to monitor and report on such issues. • Ensure all members of detention monitoring groups are able to work with sexual violence and other sensitive gender-specific issues. • Facilitate awareness raising, attitude- and behaviour-changing initiatives with departments, institutions and personnel responsible for detention centres involving women, including the adoption of the UN Rules on the Treatment of Women Prisoners (the Bangkok Rules). 5. Monitoring implementation of human rights commitments A gender mainstreamed NHRI … Possible actions • Monitors and reports on the State’s performance of its human rights obligations toward gender equality. • Advocate for the adoption of international standards and the removal of reservations as they relate to the rights of women and girls. • Prioritises and adequately resources monitoring and reporting of the State’s performance against CEDAW commitments. • Use education and outreach activities to share information with the community, NGOs and other civil society stakeholders about the importance of monitoring the State’s performance as it relates to gender equality. • Supports and encourages those working for gender equality to submit alternative reports of the State’s performance of its human rights obligations. • Has staff who are competent to monitor the State’s commitment toward gender equality. • Include gender considerations in formal mechanisms, such as NHRI reports or submissions to government or other inquiries. 6. Complaints handling and mediation A gender mainstreamed NHRI … Possible actions • Receives, investigates and/or mediates complaints of gender-based violations. • Examine the NHRIs complaint handling procedures from a gender perspective, paying special attention to: • Collects, analyses and reports on data identifying gender-based violations. • Applies a gender perspective to its complaints handling processes. • Has staff who are competent to investigate and/ or mediate gender-based violations, including by applying a gender perspective. −− Accessibility, with a view to identifying any obstacles that women and girls might experience in lodging or pursuing a complaint with the NHRI −− Effectiveness, with a view to identifying how the complaint handling process can be strengthened when dealing with violations of women’s and girls’ human rights.29 • Ensure that data collected from complaints includes gender disaggregated information and any other intersectional identities of priority to the NHRI. Section 3: Gender mainstreaming in an NHRI | 43