Capacity Assessment Manual for National Human Rights Institutions • review and incorporate specific gender equality and gender mainstreaming questions in the check list currently used by the APF in its assessment process • consider gender balanced representation on assessment team and inclusion of persons with gender expertise in the assessment team and report on the reasons why there may be all one gender on assessment teams in activity reports. • collect evidence that the NHRI has demonstrated it has mainstreamed gender – through strategic planning, mainstreaming guidelines, employment practices and advice to governments on legislation and, if not, make recommendations to the NHRI to do so • collect and report sex-disaggregated data • assess level of diversity and pluralism in the NHRI’s membership and staffing (from administrative through to senior staffing levels) and commission members • understand if the NHRI has a working definition of ‘gender mainstreaming’ and, if not, promote the APF gender mainstreaming definition • include specific questions on what gender mainstreaming measures are employed • identify specific recommendations on gender issues and gender mainstreaming • include in the official capacity assessment report a specific section on assessment of gender equality and mainstreaming efforts and recommendations for improvement • include specific questions on what gender mainstreaming measures are employed. Chapter 2: The capacity assessment approach for national human rights institutions | 17