Gender Audit

It is a tool to assess and check the institutionalization of gender equality into organisations and government including in their policies, programmes,

projects.

Features of Gender Audit:

a)     It is a social audit.

b)     It establishes a baseline to identify the critical gender gap.

c)     It recommends way of addressing gender gaps.

d)     It documents good practices of attaining gender equality.

e)     It helps to build organizational ownerships of gender inequalities.

f)       It monitors progress in gender mainstreaming.

Importance of Gender Audit:

1.     It identifies strengths and weakness in promoting gender equality issues.

2.     It enhances collective capacity of government to examine its activities from a gender perspective.

3.     It helps to identify gender gaps.

4.     It sensitize the government in the area of gender.

5.     It monitors and evaluates the relative progress in promoting gender equality.

6.      It analyses the budgetary performance in promoting international commitments of CEDAW and BPFA.

Step of preparing Gender Audit:

Step 1: Preparing the gender audit

Step 2: Carrying out the audit.

Step 3: Drafting of Gender equality plan and creation of a gender committee.

Importance of Gender Audit during the screening of the project:

1.     It attempts to establish a baseline data.

2.     It identifies strengths and weakness in promoting gender equality issues.

3.     It enhances collective capacity of government to examine its activities from a gender perspective.

4.     It helps to identify gender gaps.

5.     It sensitize the government in the area of gender.

6.     It monitors and evaluates the relative progress in promoting gender equality.

7.      It analyses the budgetary performance in promoting international commitments of CEDAW and BPFA.

8.     It increases women's awareness of economic issues.

9.     It looks whether the implementing steps are addressed through its set goal or not.

10.It helps in achieving sustainable achievement of programs.