Gender Audit

The gender audit aims to encourage political party leaders, men and women alike, party activists, party members, journalists, researchers, civil society organisations and other interested individuals or organisations to assess how gender sensitive a political party is.

GENDER AUDIT TOOL BY ODIHR

The ODIHR gender audit methodology for political parties consists of a set of questions intended to help identify the level of gender equality in political party structures, processes, procedures, and formal and informal practices. The results produced can support political parties in identifying their strengths and areas of development as well as provide good practices from all over the OSCE region to enhance gender equality. They can serve as a roadmap for development of gender equality within the party.

ODIHR developed the comprehensive gender audit methodology for political parties to increase women’s political participation in the framework of the ‘Strengthening Women’s Participation in Political Parties in the OSCE Region’ project, aiming to “build the capacity of OSCE institutions, political party leaderships, women leaders and gender advocates to develop systematic approaches to the advancement of women’s political participation and gender equality within political parties”.

Frequently Asked Questions

The gender audit aims to encourage political party leaders, men and women alike, party activists, party members, journalists, researchers, civil society organizations and other interested individuals or organizations to assess how gender sensitive a political party is. The assessment also helps to understand what are the possible avenues for advancing gender equality in the party and how parties can develop and strengthen their own structures and processes to become more representative of the interests of both women and men.

To make the assessment useful and obtain results and recommendations at the end, you are encouraged to answer as many questions as possible, using the information that you have. Nevertheless, you will also be allowed to answer questions with “I do not know”. For a list of information you should prepare, please consult the section “Preparing for a gender audit”. Before you start with the assessment, you will be obliged to comply with the ethics and the confidentiality clauses.

The number of assessments is not limited, so one can take periodical assessments for one party or even assess several parties.

The tool is available in English. Russian language version will become available in the future.

In order to ensure confidentiality, please note you will only be asked to indicate the location where the assessed party is registered. Information such as name, e-mail or any other personal information is not required. In the end of the gender audit, you are offered an option to send the results to an e-mail address, but this address will not be saved in the system.

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