the status of women is explicitly part of the mandate of the supreme council of women that supervises and reports on compliance with relevant national and international standards prepares legislative proposals examines policies and budgets and provides advice to the government these countries need to develop genderspecific strategies or committees in legislative bodies while adopting and building consensus on new national constitutions in tunisia for example a commission in charge of social affairs exists within the body of the constitutional convention but its relation to the ministry of women s and family affairs remains to be clarified