good governance enables effective design and implementation of gender equality reforms and the materialisation of gender equality objectives while the implementation of gender equality is an important aspect of supporting good governance reforms through balanced decision making and resulting better policies and programmes including in the area of governance if there are no channels for the government to obtain structured input from civil society organisations and the population at large it would have a detrimental impact on the ability of women s organisations to influence public policies as such gender equality objectives cannot be attained without the support of good governance policies and gender equality reforms reinforce good governance within the context of building a strategic state