GEN

Decides to establish, by the present resolution, as a composite entity, to be operational by 1 Jan. 2011, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN Women; also decides to establish an Executive Board as the governing body of the Entity to provide intergovernmental support to and supervision of its operational activities; decides that the resources required to service the normative intergovernmental processes shall be funded from the regular budget and approved by the General Assembly; the resources required to service the operational intergovernmental processes and operational activities at all levels shall be funded from voluntary contributions and approved by the Executive Board; decides that the process of consolidation of the institutional and operational arrangements, partnerships and brands of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women, the Division for the Advancement of Women, the UN Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women shall start from the date of adoption of the present resolution and continue under the leadership and authority of the Under-Secretary-General/head of the Entity, once appointed; requests the Secretary-General to appoint the Under-Secretary-General/head of the Entity by the beginning of the 65th session of the General Assembly in order to oversee the transitional arrangements of the Entity before its operationalization, and decides that the position of the Under-Secretary-General/head of the Entity shall be funded from existing temporary assistance funds pending the submission of the report on the revised regular budget required to be submitted to the Assembly at its 65th session; decides to dissolve the UN Development Fund for Women as of the date of adoption of the present resolution; requests the Economic and Social Council to dissolve the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women as of the date of adoption of the pertinent resolution; decides that any expansion of the capacity of the Entity should be orderly, based on a proposal by the Under-Secretary-General/head of the Entity to the Executive Board, building on the field presence and infrastructure of the UN Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

Adopted without vote, 104th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.