Facilitating an NHRI Gender Audit CONCEPTS, TERMS AND DE FINITIONS Activities Any actions that take place to reach planned outcomes, such as programmes, projects, processes, events, tools and meetings Gender analysis Analysis of the situation for different genders, including identifying gender inequalities, which usually results in recommendations to reduce inequalities Gender Audit A tool to find out the extent to which gender equality is understood and acted upon in your NHRI Gender-disaggregated Data collected, analysed and presented separately according to sex and data gender identity Gender mainstreaming A strategy to achieve gender equality by considering gender implications across all activities of an organisation Gender-sensitive Indicators that measure gender-related changes over time indicators Indicators The measures you will use to track progress towards, or achievement of, planned outputs and outcomes Inputs The resources needed to achieve your outputs and outcomes. Inputs can include your NHRI’s staff, financial, physical and technical resources NHRIs (acronym) National Human Rights Institutions Outcomes The changes and impacts that your NHRI is working towards. They can be short-term, medium-term or long-term Outputs The immediate result or product of an activity Companion Resources • APF (Apr 2016), Video series on Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls, www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRocLBTawJw&list=PLMWlphfUG936ME92wxzAQuunidYgI3yg&index=1&t=106s (from here the other videos are available) • APF (Jul 2019), Guidelines for Mainstreaming the Human Rights of Women and Girls into our Everyday Work, www.asiapacificforum.net/media/resource_file/APF_NHRI_Guidelines_ Mainstreaming_pCkDLRa.pdf • APF (2020), Monitoring, Evaluating, Accountability and Learning: A Guide for Human Rights Institutions in the Pacific, www.asiapacificforum.net/resources/monitoring-evaluation-accountabilityand-learning-guide-national-human-rights-institutions/ • Pacific Community Regional Rights Resource Team (2020): How do I use data? A Guide for NHRIs 05