There are limited formal mechanisms to ensure the use of citizens’ inputs in the policy- and law-making processes, and to respond to citizens’ concerns, including those of women and women’s organisations. In fact, after the recent incidents last year, the government launched a big crackdown on NGOs and stipulated new rules and regulations on the work of CSOs, and put new restrictions on their activities and their methods of financing. Getting permission or approval from the government on foreign funds is a long and very complicated process in which projects are not always properly implemented as scheduled and planned. (