I can do that.
When a policy paper goes through the cabinet process—we call them cabinet papers—it goes through a cabinet committee first, and then it goes through the full cabinet. I think you probably have a similar process. A social policy paper [Inaudible—Editor] is in a template that has absolutely mandated that there be a gender statement around it. As my Belgian colleague said, is that a really effective way of encouraging agencies to think right at the beginning of the policy development process about how this will play out for women? In some ways, potentially but not necessarily. It can be a compliance exercise, rather than a full and integrated part of the policy process.
At the ministry, our role is obviously to ensure that the policy is as good quality as it could be. We tend to work out where the most important policies are. We actually put a person in the process, so we would be engaged right at the beginning of the policy design process, right at the commissioning, because that will mean the thinking happens all along the process.
As I said, I think it is really important and crucial to have those kinds of stakes in the ground, and we think about it around gender implication statements. It would not mean that every piece of policy has absolutely embraced gender equality thinking, and you may have to do some other things as well. That has been our experience.