other initiatives for capacitybuilding and awareness development could include unit or country office training plans with focused gender sessions that encourage lively and open discussions and debates country offices should prepare gender plans that identify gaps and needs in technical support capacitybuilding joint action and advocacy and collective monitoring that facilitate stronger gender programming these plans should also help to identify areas where undp can draw on expertise and leverage the existing capacities of other united nations agencies active on gender issues at the country level this process should be supported monitored and reported upon annually by the respective regional bureaux to the gsic