Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions 3.1. STEPS TO APPLY GENDER ANALYSIS5 To demonstrate that a gender analysis has been applied to a training activity, this will be recorded into the Gender section of the APF Activity Report which is completed after an APF training6. In the development of training resources, such as a thematic manual, a gender analysis and plan for the integration of gender into the resource will need to be evidenced before work can be signed off and initiated. 1. Analyse the social structures and power relations that frame the laws and politics, the economy, social dynamics and family and community life: • Consider how women and girls and men and boys are differently situated and affected in the context, and consider how age race, disability, sexuality and other factors can impact. • Consider the data and evidence demonstrating the differential impact. • Consider the areas of consequent gender disadvantages and gender inequalities that arise. 2. Consider the specific vulnerabilities to human rights violations faced by women and girls: • Consider the disproportionate disadvantage or violations experienced by women and girls (e.g. feminisation of poverty, domestic and family violence experienced predominantly by women and girls). • Identify human rights violations that are specifically experienced by women and girls (e.g. violations of women human rights defenders). 3. Identify and dismantle harmful gender stereotypes that results in violations of women’s and girls’ human rights. Promote positive perceptions of women and girls, where they are not viewed in terms of what women ‘should’ do but for who they are – unique individuals, with their own needs and desires. 4. Consider specific strategies to address the gender differential impact and the human rights violations on women and girls. 5. Consider doing an intersectional analysis by considering all the different marginalised groups of women and girls in the community (resource material: AWID, Intersectionality: A Tool for Gender and Economic Justice7). 8