Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit 3.5 Bringing it all together By this point you have analysed data from your document review, the organisation-wide survey and the focus groups. Now it is time to bring it all together. The benefit of having three sets of data and using multiple approaches to analyse the data means: • people from across the organisation—and potentially external to it—will have had an opportunity to have their say, encouraging ownership of the audit outcomes • the data is enriched by multiple perspectives, and • you can cross-reference your findings from each method used which strengthens your data and gives you a more complete picture of how well gender equality is understood and acted on in your NHRI. Using multiple sources of data and multiple approaches to analysing data is called data triangulation. Data triangulation Imagine if four people were gathering information about a mountain. One person looked at the north face, one at the east face, one at the south face and one at the west face. Even though it is the same mountain, the perspective that each person sees will be different. If only one person’s perspective were taken into account, you would not get an accurate understanding of the mountain. By collating all four perspectives (triangulating the data from all four perspectives) the information about the mountain becomes more complete and more accurate. Include disaggregated demographic data in findings Alongside your analysis, conclusions and recommendations review, the demographic data you have gathered— such as gender, role in the NHRI, salary levels/bands, regional or central office, ethnicity, age, disability etc—will add to your understanding and context of your findings. You will know what the important groupings are for your context. Remember: the information gathered from a regional office without a gender focal point may be different from the information gathered from a central office where there is a gender focal point and gender programme. Meet as a Gender Audit team and workshop the following eight steps You may find Tool 11 helpful for this task, as it has a basic set up of columns, but using Excel will allow you to make further columns/rows and create a more sophisticated analysis. Excel is a good analysis option, unless you have other dedicated software available and people with the technical expertise to use it. Note: the tool has room for ‘general findings’ (those you think are important and need to contribute to the audit result but may not fit into your five audit areas). 82