Gender Audit for ICIMOD

Project

Gender Audit for the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development Nepal

Project status

Completed

Core countries

Nepal

Project vision

To determine ICIMOD’s progress towards gender transformative change as envisaged in its policies and frameworks.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is a regional intergovernmental learning and knowledge-sharing center serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. ICIMOD aims to assist mountain people to understand and adapt to the changes caused by globalization and climate change on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people.

Aims and objectives

ENERGIA was engaged to conduct a gender audit to assess the gender-responsiveness of ICIMOD’s policies and programs and identify areas for strengthening, both at an institutional level and at the programmatic and initiative levels.

Through the audit, ENERGIA reviewed the political will, management support, technical capacity, accountability, and organizational culture to enable ICIMOD to:

Identify options for strengthening its policies and practice in future.
Inform development of gender mainstreaming strategy for the Action Plan cycle 2017-2022.
Guide the work of the Gender-Strategic Institutional Function (SIF).

Ten recommendations were provided as a result of the audit to further strengthen the ICIMOD’s gender integration.