Under the auspices of the Democratic Governance Fund (DGF) in April 2013 LASPNET volunteered to undertake a Gender Audit with the objective of exploring and analyzing its effectiveness in carrying out the steps necessary for engendering its programmes and projects and mainstreaming into all its institutional activities. The main purpose of the gender audit   was to assess the extent to which gender has been mainstreamed into current policies, programmes, organisational structure and procedures and promote learning on how to effectively implement gender mainstreaming in various aspects of the Network, including its membership. The audit results were expected to serve as inputs into the future formulation of internal policies, programme strategies, and organizational structures across the membership. it will further provide a strong basis on which to broaden the Secretariat’s ability to incorporate a gender dimension in all its coordination structures and systems.