NHRI Guidelines for Mainstreaming the Human Rights of Women and Girls into Our Everyday Work • In 2014, a consultant was commissioned by the APF to conduct its first Gender Mainstreaming: Operational Review of the APF Secretariat. • This was followed by a workshop for APF secretariat staff and selected consultants on gender equality and gender analysis. • In 2014, the APF published a manual for NHRIs on Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls. • In 2015, the APF made a commitment to integrate gender equality and women’s and girls’ human rights in its 2015–2020 Strategic Plan. ‘The APF promotes gender equality and mainstreams gender across all its work’ is one of the APF’s six strategic functions. • In 2015, the APF secretariat updated its internal Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting Plan to include gender and gender mainstreaming indicators. • In 2015, the APF began a capacity development program on ‘Promoting and Protecting the Human Rights of Women and Girls’ for APF members, delivered at the sub-regional and national levels. The program includes blended learning training courses and roundtables. To date, this has included a sub-regional blended learning course for South Asian NHRIs (Nepal, 2015), a subregional roundtable for West Asian NHRIs (Jordan, 2018) and a sub-regional roundtable for Pacific NHRIs and States (Samoa, 2018).32 At the national level, the APF has delivered training to the Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines (2017), the National Human Rights Commission of India (2017) and the Provedor for Human Rights and Justice of Timor-Leste (2019). • During 2016 and 2017, the APF prepared Gender Mainstreaming Guidelines for Trainers and Developers of APF Training Material to guide the application of gender mainstreaming with regards to training materials and activities. • Additionally, at the international level, the APF has actively engaged at annual sessions of the UN Commission on the Status of Women to advocate for the independent participation rights of NHRIs,, as well to draw attention to the role of NHRIs in promoting and protecting the human rights of women and girls.33 APF gender mainstreaming review In 2017, a second gender mainstreaming review of the APF secretariat focused on integrating and mainstreaming gender into the internal operations of the APF secretariat. Its aims were to • Explore how gender was mainstreamed at a practical daily level within the work of the APF secretariat • Identify what opportunities there were for improving gender mainstreaming, including developing individualised checklists for staff and consultants • Identify what further capacity building was required to ensure ongoing gender mainstreaming in the APF secretariat. The methodology for the gender mainstreaming review involved one-on-one interviews with all staff and selected consultants, roundtable discussions with all staff following the release of the draft report and developing joint recommendations for strengthening the gender mainstreaming work of the APF secretariat. 50