Gender audits are an approach for putting gender on the policy agenda and are an alternative to gender budgets being less dependant on experts in government finance. This paper explores the effectiveness of gender audits as an approach to mainstreaming in the energy sector which has lagged other sectors in mainstreaming gender. The assessment takes the experiences of an international network on gender and sustainable energy that aims to get gender onto the energy policy agenda.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340353823_Gender_audits_An_approach_to_engendering_energy_policy_in_Nepal_Kenya_and_Senegal