further investments are required in most mena countries to embed gender budgeting into the mainstream budgeting cycle across government and for these practices to take root it would be important to ensure that all pertinent stakeholders including parliaments are actively engaged in this process good practices from both oecd and mena countries eg morocco may support mena policy makers in the implementation of gender budgeting in a systematic and sustainable manner this would allow for gender mainstreaming to be taken into consideration more strategically and ensure buyin at all levels of government as well as raise awareness of gender mainstreaming