United Nations restructuring and institutional matters

In 2010, the General Assembly took concerted steps to strengthen UN coherence system-wide by streamlining institutional arrangements for gender equality and the empowerment of women, consolidating governance of operational activities for development, and improving the funding for those activities. In June, a High-level Tripartite Conference of the eight “Delivering as one” pilot countries reviewed lessons learned from the programme and made proposals for the way forward. In July, the General Assembly adopted a resolution on system-wide coherence, in which it established the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN-Women, by consolidating and transferring to the Entity the mandates and functions of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the United Nations Development Fund for Women, and the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women. The Assembly also welcomed the Assembly President’s proposal to designate as the special theme for the general debate of its sixty-fifth session “Reaffirming the central role of the United Nations in global governance” and his intention to organize in 2011 an informal thematic debate on global governance, and considered the Secretary-General’s proposal on a new accountability architecture for the Secretariat.

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