Civil society engagement with global governance has sometimes also reverberated back on state regulation. Employing a so-called ‘boomerang effect’, civil society groups have worked through global arenas in pursuit of changes to national policy. For example, civil society associations in Kuwait have utilized global events and measures to press their government to change budget allocations, economic planning, and environmental laws. Some women’s associations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia did not meet their national authorities until both sides attended UN meetings on gender issues.