This guide aims to improve the capacity of national human rights institutions to protect and promote women’s rights and gender equality. It provides examples and questions to consider to guide national human rights institutions in strengthening their institutional capacities and practical activities in the area of women’s rights and gender equality. The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) prepared this guide based on research and drafts by Pearl Eliadis, a lawyer who has worked extensively with national human rights institutions at international level for nearly two decades.