inclusive policy making enhances transparency and public participation while enabling governments to improve their policy performance support economic recovery restore the social contract and strengthen trust in institutions by considering impacts on various stakeholders and working with citizens civil society and businesses to design better policies for better lives indeed inclusive policies require integrating concerns of both men and women at all stages of the policy process and across all policy sectors through the process called gender mainstreaming section a of the beijing declaration and platform for action states that governments must seek to ensure that before policy decisions are taken an analysis of their impact on women and men respectively is carried out