Employment reforms, legislation to combat violence against women and equality and non-discrimination laws are examples of concrete results facilitated through the w'ork of national gender institutions (Johan, 2010). In the MENA region, for example, the gender institutions in Egypt lobbied Parliament to change nationality laws, pension laws, the tax exemption law1, the alimony fund law and family law. In Jordan, the legal age of marriage was raised through legal reforms supported by the national gender institutions (Ibid.).