Final Gender Audit Report Proofed 2

1 CONTENTS Abbreviations & Acronyms............................................................ 5 Acknowledgements....................................... 7 Executive Summary....................................... 9 Background.....................................................9 Findings........................................................10 Looking forward.............12 Summary of Recommendations of the First ILO Gender Audit...14 Policy statement on gender equality and gender mainstreaming ................14 Gender mainstreaming in the work of the ILO.......................................14 Gender mainstreaming in the structure of the International Labour Office....15 Capacity building for gender mainstreaming..........15 Gender-sensitive human resource and staff policy ..................................16 Introduction ................................................................................19 About this report............19 Objective of the Gender Audit............................................................19 Methodology and process.................................19 Chapter 1: Policy Statement on Gender Equality and Gender Mainstreaming............................................................................25 Policy and strategy formulation..........................25 Gender in the Decent Work agenda....................28 Towards an Organization-wide gender policy.........................................30 Chapter 2: ...