Selecting an Organization Well-suited for a Gender Equality Audit

Some organizations or programs will be better suited to audits of gender equality than others. When auditing an organization, the audit scope may include a gender-based assessment of policy and program objectives focusing on the impact to clients and beneficiaries. It could also focus on the program structure and related internal processes. These two perspectives, in combination, help to formulate the audit plan and to identify potential lines of audit enquiry.

While there are no recognized criteria for identifying the better candidate organizations or programs, some characteristics can indicate a good candidate, such as:

• organizations or programs that have specific interventions on the population, such as efforts to eradicate human trafficking, where the gender issues will be different for men and women;
  
  
• organizations or programs that use large amounts of human resources, particularly where the government has a policy of gender equality that applies to its workforce;
  
  
• service delivery organizations that require certain conditions to be met before providing a service (such as issuing a loan or a permit) to a beneficiary; and
  
  
• common public services where there is abundant performance data allowing for a gender-based comparison of practices between similar institutions (such as police forces, hospitals, and schools) within one jurisdiction or between jurisdictions.

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