Tool 1: Form your Gender Audit Team (GAT)
Name
Role
Responsibility (including but not limited to…)
Audit Team Permanent Members
Senior Manager /
• Ensures ownership and support at the leadership
Commissioner /
level of the NHRI
Ombudsperson (1)
GAT Lead /
Coordinator (1)
• Has an overview of the audit project
• Coordinates the audit team and ensures it
effectively carries out its responsibilities
• Regularly communicates on the audit progress
• Identifies other personnel that may be needed
for specific tasks
(e.g. facilitating focus groups, data analysis)
• Addresses any challenges or difficulties that
may arise
Gender expert (1)
• Ensures ownership and support at the leadership
level of the NHRI
• Supports members of the team to deepen their
own understanding and practice of gender
equality, if required
Human resources (1)
• Manages the link between the audit and
personnel policies and practices
Representatives from
• Ensure diverse ‘division’ perspectives strengthen
NHRI divisions, who
may also be gender
experts (up to 4)
the audit and audit recommendations
• Provide the communication link between the
audit and divisions
Audit Team Casual Members
Facilitator/s
•
To work with groups of staff during Stage 2
Data analysis expert
• To advise the data gathering and analysis stages
of the audit
Other?
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