the interdepartmental coordination group assumes responsibility for promoting cooperation between ministries adopting a federal plan of action preparing an intermediary report and a final report at the end of the term and exchanging good practices and promoting instruments useful to enforcing the law the representatives of the ministries participating in the coordination group are also appointed as gender focal points in their respective entities they receive compulsory training on gender mainstreaming and are tasked with ensuring followup on the diverse measures foreseen by the law eg gender statistics genderresponsive budgeting and the gender test