4. How can the justice sector advance gender equality and integrate a gender perspective?. . . . . . . . . 29
4.1. Conditions for success.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.2 Building an evidence base for gender justice reform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
4.3 Planning and co-ordinating gender justice reform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.4 Generating budgetary, political and judicial support for gender justice reform. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
4.5 Reforming the law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
4.6 Developing policy, protocols and procedures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4.7 Establishing and strengthening gender-focused organizational structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.8 Handling GBV cases better.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
4.9 Training and other capacity development for justice professionals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.10 Creating a more representative and responsive justice sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
4.11 Improving access to justice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
4.12 Engaging with informal justice providers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.13 Strengthening gender-responsive internal and external oversight of the justice sector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
4.14 Challenging society’s gender norms and stereotypes, and legal empowerment.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
5. Case studies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Case study 1: Using academic research to build support for law reform around image-based abuse (Australia) . . . . . . . . . . 47
Case study 2: Community consultation on reform of bail and sentencing regulations (Sierra Leone).. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Case study 3: Increasing access to justice for survivors of GBV (Iraq) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Case study 4: Legislative reform concerning domestic violence (Ukraine). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Case study 5: Gender and justice reform (Bosnia and Herzegovina). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Case study 6: Gender equality protocols for magistrates and judges (The Caribbean). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6. Guiding questions for institutional self-assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7. Additional resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65