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Rwanda

The Rwanda Partners Gender Audit

The DFID Rwanda office has worked alongside seven of the Government of Rwanda’s development partners to self-assess its performance on delivering gender equality. This mix of multi-laterals (United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)), bi-laterals (Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and DFID) and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) (Trocaire,Action Aid,Norwegian People’s Aid andSNV), have each taken a long hard look at themselves and compared the results. We’ve all been challenged by the results and encouraged by the way staff in each organisation have responded with enthusiasm. We believe that the time is right for Gender Audit.

Our gender audit process has been different to those conducted elsewhere. We started with the assumption that some of the constraints to achieving gender targets lie in the ways we behave and the ways our organisations operate. This gender audit concentrates on assessing our own and our organisation’s behaviour. We have adapted the Balanced Scorecard to make these judgements.

The process has been so popular that a third round of gender audits is planned. This will include the first Government agencies as well as local NGOs.

A short guideline document(58 kb) is available that explains how the gender audit was conducted. There are detailed annexes(100 kb) for those who want all the details. And, there is a synthesis study(44 kb) that compares the process and results achieved by the eight different participating organisations.

For more information, please contact Judy Walker, e-mail: j-walker@dfid.gov.uk

Last updated: 26 March 2007

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