Gender Audit: A Tool for Organizational Transformation

InterAction’s Gender Audit is a process for organisational assessment and a tool for action planning. The participatory audit process is designed to help to identify organisational strengths and challenges to integrating gender in an organisation’s systems and operations and in programmes and projects. The Gender Audit tool can be used organisation-wide or in field offices, headquarters, or other organisational offices. The audit process requires commitment on the part of senior staff and the ability of a gender focal point or gender team to implement the audit process.

The audit process has three stages as described below, in addition to a recommended preparatory step. This preliminary step is to gain senior leadership buy-in and support for conducting the gender audit process. The gender audit stages include:

1. Survey - the gender audit questionnaire;
   
2. Focus Groups - follow-up to the survey, a series of focus group conversations and analysis; and
3. Gender Plan of Action - building on the institutional strengths to form initiatives and strategies for ways to better integrate gender equality throughout the organisation.
   

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