The strategic approach taken promotes the participation of women in governance structures and ensures a keen gender perspective in policy making and in processes related to EU integration, budgeting and resource allocation. Also, in embedding SDG commitments in budgets and enabling targeted planning and monitoring for SDG financing. UN Women will continue to address structural obstacles to women’s participation and promote gender sensitive actions and cooperation among the key actors with ability to address them, support close partnership between the gender institutional mechanisms and Directorate of European Integration and other institutions leading EU integration efforts at entity level to ensure the inclusion of a gender perspective and gender sensitive targeting in strategic priorities and allocation of IPA resources, and partner with Ministries of Finance and line ministries for integration of Gender Responsive Budgeting as a tool at all levels of planning and policy-making .