the central coordination body is responsible for developing the strategy and the governmentwide policies for monitoring progress promoting the benefits and providing guidance and support to line ministries and agencies for policy implementation indeed about of countries responding to the oecd survey on national gender institutions public policies and leadership identified lack of funding among the top barriers for advancing gender equality reforms the oecd countries experience shows that mandates derived from constitutions or enshrined in law afford national mechanisms a greater sense of political legitimacy and stability accompanied by a sufficient resource base than mandates originating from a governmental decree having both the statutory authority to propose policy and the proximity to the executive or central administrative structures increases the influence of national gender institutions finland s national gender institution is an instructive example