Gender and Security Toolkit – Tool 14: Intelligence and Gender

Part of the Gender and Security Toolkit, the Tool:

- describes why gender is important to the work of intelligence services, and introduces key concepts concerning intelligence, control and oversight of the intelligence sector, and gender;

- explains how an intelligence service that embraces and promotes gender equality is better suited to fulfil its mandate;

- provides reference frameworks for shaping policies and procedures and/or when conducting reform in the intelligence sector, addressing intelligence services, intelligence practitioners and intelligence policy-makers, and also parliaments and civil society;

- outlines a vision of what intelligence services that integrate a gender perspective into their work and advance gender equality will look like;

- illustrates what measures need to be taken by governments, oversight bodies and intelligence services to ensure that intelligence services integrate a gender perspective and promote gender equality;

- provides a self-assessment checklist.

The Toolkit was published with the support of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (OSCE/ODIHR). Its content does not necessarily reflect the policy and position of the OSCE/ODIHR.