in some cases horizontal interdepartmental bodies enjoy a legal status in equality acts or regulation but such coordination mechanisms can still suffer from ambiguous mandates johan focal points within sectoralline ministries charged with integrating and coordinating gender mainstreaming initiatives for example may face institutional marginalisation a lack of authority and insufficient technical expertise ibid to support the implementation of this wholeofgovernment process the law created an interdepartmental coordination group for the federal government this group s members are representatives of administrations and ministers offices and its secretariat is the institute for the equality of women and men