FAO: Gender Audit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAO commissioned the gender audit in the context of reform, which included a renewed commitment to gender mainstreaming with the creation of Strategic Objective K (SO K), following the recommendations of the 2007 Independent External Evaluation (IEE).

The central question for the gender auditors was: What does FAO need to do to adapt its institutional mechanisms and processes to mainstream gender equality throughout the Organization?