all countries report using several institutions in the decisionmaking and collection process for genderdisaggregated statistics about half of the countries surveyed set up coordination mechanisms to improve capacity to gather genderdisaggregated data bahrain kuwait morocco the palestinian authority and tunisia and also tend to have welldeveloped coordination mechanisms for most gender initiatives nevertheless it is important to ensure that the vision and strategy of the central gender institution is aligned with the gender equality and mainstreaming strategy