this applies both to standalone initiatives related to women s empowerment and to mainstreaming gender across all government plans and policies centres of government such as cabinet offices and ministries of finance should have the capacity to ensure that line ministries and agencies take into account gender impacts among other considerations when designing their policies initiatives and budgets genderspecific agencies such as gender equality ministries usually provide genderrelated advice to line ministries and the centre of government independent monitoring mechanisms such as gender equality or human rights commissions have the responsibility to provide independent recourse to complaints related to genderbased discrimination and oversee the implementation of gender equality commitments of the government