ILO Participatory Gender Audit: Relevance and use for the United Nations and its agencies
This publication shows how the participatory gender audit - a unique tool for evaluating and monitoring the achievement of gender equality - can support and strengthen efforts of joint UN programming on gender equality at country level, particularly in the framework of the UN “Delivering as One” process and of mainstreaming gender into the programmes, funds and agencies’ individual and collective work.
Striving for gender equality is an indisputable mandate collectively endorsed across the United Nations Organization, its funds, programmes and specialized agencies. The ILO, as part of the UN system, has been a staunch advocate for women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the world of work through the promotion of international labour standards and the Decent Work Agenda, which comprises guidance on policy measures that ensure equal access to employment, social protection and social dialogue.
The ILO has designed a tool – the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) – that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given organization’s progress in gender mainstreaming. The United Nations and its specialized agencies have been requesting a number of ILO interventions for implementing the PGAs in the framework of relevant UN programmes. There have also been numerous requests to train staff serving in the various entities that make up the UN Country Teams on the PGA methodology.
The existing Manual for Gender Audit Facilitators: The ILO Participatory Gender Audit Methodology, available in several working languages of the UN system, was already designed with a view to adaptation to suit a wide variety of target audiences. But a summary of the methodology for use in UN settings was needed. So it is in the spirit of inter-agency cooperation that this publication contributes to how the PGA can support and strengthen efforts of joint UN programming on gender equality at country level, particularly in the framework of the UN “Delivering as One” process and of mainstreaming gender into the programmes, funds and agencies’ individual and collective work.
The ILO has designed a tool – the Participatory Gender Audit (PGA) – that lends itself particularly well to providing a comprehensive picture of any given organization’s progress in gender mainstreaming. The United Nations and its specialized agencies have been requesting a number of ILO interventions for implementing the PGAs in the framework of relevant UN programmes. There have also been numerous requests to train staff serving in the various entities that make up the UN Country Teams on the PGA methodology.
The existing Manual for Gender Audit Facilitators: The ILO Participatory Gender Audit Methodology, available in several working languages of the UN system, was already designed with a view to adaptation to suit a wide variety of target audiences. But a summary of the methodology for use in UN settings was needed. So it is in the spirit of inter-agency cooperation that this publication contributes to how the PGA can support and strengthen efforts of joint UN programming on gender equality at country level, particularly in the framework of the UN “Delivering as One” process and of mainstreaming gender into the programmes, funds and agencies’ individual and collective work.