other countries may be carrying out gender mainstreaming activities without a specific strategy although many countries employ some form of gender mainstreaming according to the oecd survey on national gender frameworks public policies and leadership only a few mena countries eg the palestinian authority take active steps to systematically integrate gender equality considerations in the design implementation and monitoring of policies programmes and laws since then sweden has consolidated its gender mainstreaming strategy which aims at achieving equal opportunities rights and responsibilities for women and men progressively into all policy areas