2 Gender and Security Toolkit to share new and emerging good practices, reflecting on how they have been developed. The Toolkit is designed to help security and justice sector institutions to integrate a gender perspective: the sector needs to move beyond simply increasing the numbers of women, and become more aware of and responsive to different gendered needs of the entire population. In doing so, attention to often-neglected security and justice needs of women and girls must always be a key priority. 1.2 Audiences for this Tool The Gender and Security Toolkit will, we hope, be used by many different audiences in many ways. It can be, for example, a resource of good practices and lessons learnt to inform new policies, programmes, strategies or procedures for the justice sector; a source of ideas for monitoring and oversight activities; and a reference for arguments and evidence to support advocacy and training. This Tool is intended mainly for use by Ministry of Justice personnel, judges, lawyers, court administrators and others working in justice institutions, as well as those educating or training judicial and legal professionals. This Tool will also be of value to those who work with justice institutions to advance gender equality, such as civil society organizations (CSOs), national human rights institutions, parliamentary committees and international actors engaged with justice sector reform. 1.3 Outline of this Tool Section 2 describes why gender is important to the work of the justice sector and introduces key concepts. Fundamentally, the integration of a gender perspective and the pursuit of gender equality are integral to protecting and promoting human rights and realizing justice, because gender and gender biases strongly influence individuals in various ways. Ê Experiences of crime and injustice. Ê Experiences of working in the judiciary, courts and other justice sector institutions. Ê Experiences of engaging with justice sector institutions, such as courts. Ê Treatment under the law. Ê Access to justice. Moreover, integration of a gender perspective in the justice sector is necessary to fulfil obligations under international law. It also strengthens good governance of the justice sector and contributes to peace and development. Section 3 provides a vision of what a justice sector that integrates a gender perspective into its work and advances gender equality will look like. Ê Inclusive, representative and non-discriminatory. Ê Responsive to the different needs of women, men, girls, boys and people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions. Ê Equally accessible to all. Ê Contributing to prevention of, protection from and response to gender-based violence (GBV) and discrimination. Ê Providing oversight of the whole security sector to ensure that it is gender responsive and promotes gender equality. Ê Catalysing transformational change within society towards gender equality, nondiscrimination and security.