NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming the Human Rights of Women and Girls into Our Everyday Work 10. All consultants be required to share what proportion of their work was relevant to gender mainstreaming. 11. Develop an agreed methodology with consultants for assessing proportion of work that is relevant to gender mainstreaming. Personnel 12. Review all staff and consultant job descriptions and build in actions for gender mainstreaming. Funding, budgeting and finance 13. Ensure all draft donor proposals are reviewed by the Gender Focal Point and Monitoring and Evaluation consultant to ensure gender is mainstreamed and clear gender objectives and indicators are identified. 14. Undertake gender budgeting across all areas of the APF secretariat’s work. Other 15. Utilise the agreed APF working definition of gender mainstreaming. 16. Utilise the APF Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for Trainers and Developers of APF Training Materials. 17. Source gender expertise for review and comment as required. 18. Provide ongoing opportunities for on-the-job and formalised training for staff and consultants on gender analysis and gender mainstreaming. 19. Create opportunities to replicate strategies for gender mainstreaming within APF membership of NHRIs. Follow-up activity By mid-2019, the APF secretariat had acted on all of the above recommendations. In addition, the organisation: • Established a Governance Committee comprised of five representative of ‘A status’ member NHRIs. Gender considerations were applied to the election process. While still working towards a gender balance on the Governance Committee, the one women member is the Chairperson. • Boosted capacity to deliver the APF gender program by one extra staff member. • Adopted the APF Gender Strategy which outlines the APF’s two-prong approach for gender specialisation and gender mainstreaming. • Commenced a project to gender mainstream all APF training manuals. • Developed these gender mainstreaming guidelines to support the work of APF member institutions. • Organised a gender awareness workshop for APF secretariat staff and consultants. In 2017–18, 12% of the APF budget went towards activities that promote gender equality.34 52