Try to identify no more than five broad focus areas and design your audit questions, approach and methods to suit. The five areas could be: 1 Organisation structure and decision-making 2 Organisation culture and practice 3 Human resource management, policies and procedures 4 Internal gender expertise, competence and capacity 5 Mainstreaming of gender equality in external work What are your audit questions? The questions you design for the audit will develop out of each of these areas. It is important to design questions that will provide the information/data you need to meet the outputs and outcomes you have developed. Specifically, you want the questions to provide you with: • a baseline of information against which progress can be compared • data about what your NHRI does well and what it could be doing better, and • information from which you can develop recommendations to inform your gender mainstreaming strategy Figure 9: Examples of areas for audit and audit questions Audit Area Audit Question Examples 1. NHRI’s structure and How well does the NHRI: decision-making 1.1 integrate gender perspectives into strategic statements and decision-making processes? 1.2 include gender mainstream strategies, priorities and practices throughout functional and portfolio areas? 1.3 balance gender representation at the senior leadership level? 1.4 proactively promote and recruit for gender equality at senior leadership positions? 1.5 designate leadership responsibility for the gender equality portfolio? 1.6 have a designated division, unit or work program focused on gender equality? 1.7 commit to ensuring gender equality is integrated in operational plans? 22