Findings The review found: • Gaps in the documentation of gender mainstreaming work undertaken within the APF secretariat • Strong awareness among staff and consultants of the importance of gender mainstreaming within the organisation • A lack of a systematic gender mainstreaming and the documenting of gender mainstreaming. While staff and consultants were committed to integrating gender and to promoting women’s and girls’ human rights through their work, reporting on this was inconsistent and ad hoc. Some of the reasons included: • Lack of shared understanding of what gender mainstreaming involved • Lack of ability to apply a gender analysis • Challenge of large workloads that didn’t provide space to reflect and consider how to mainstream gender aspects into specific pieces of work. Recommendations The recommendations of the review focused on the following areas of the Secretariat’s operations. Governance 1. Develop an internal focused gender mainstreaming action plan for the APF secretariat across thematic, operational, functional and governance aspects of APF’s work. 2. The APF secretariat leadership to model and drive gender mainstreaming and make APF a leading organisation that integrates gender across its work. 3. Review, with a gender expert, the APF Constitution to consider integrating gender in the organisation’s composition, objectives and functions. 4. Continue to report on the recommendations from the 2014 Gender Mainstreaming: Operational Review of the APF Secretariat. Reporting 5. In accordance with the APF Gender Policy, identify measures of gender mainstreaming performance and integrate these into the APF Measurement and Reporting Framework to provide an evidence basis for future gender planning. 6. Ensure all draft donor proposals, concept papers, etc, are reviewed by the Gender Focal Point and Monitoring and Evaluation consultant to ensure gender is mainstreamed and that clear gender objectives and indicators are identified. 7. Review the monitoring and evaluation framework from a gender perspective and strengthen the gender mainstreaming indicators. 8. Integrate gender mainstreaming measures and reporting in APF performance reports and annual reports. 9. Develop an agreed methodology for estimating what proportion of the work was relevant to gender mainstreaming and include in all reporting for APF annual reports and performance reports, as well as project and activity reports. Section 4: Gender mainstreaming case studies | 51