This manual provides gender audit facilitators with guidelines and practical instructions on how to plan and implement participatory gender audits in an organizational context. Structured chronologically, it provides facilitators with a set of tools that help examine the extent to which equality is being institutionalized in an organization, identifying good practices in technical work, and points to effective and efficient ways of moving forward in mainstreaming gender in all activities.
A step-by-step approach is used, which leads facilitators through each stage of the audit process, culminating with a set of recommendations and an action plan on how to improve the gender mainstreaming strategy in a given institutional setting. The manual also explains the rationale behind the use of the participatory methodology, its usefulness and relevance.
Though developed primarily to guide gender audit facilitators within the ILO, the manual can easily be adapted to suit a wide variety of organizations wishing to conduct gender audits at either institutional, programme or project levels.
