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UN WOMEN WEBSITE: http://www.unwomen.org/
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UN WOMEN
The provisions set forth by resolution 63/311 on system-wide coherence, adopted
by the United Nations General Assembly on
2 October 2010, constituted the blueprint for UN Women. Seeking to strengthen
the United Nation’s institutional arrangements for gender equality and women
empowerment, resolution 63/311 supported the consolidation of four distinct
parts of the UN system that focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s
empowerment into a composite entity to be led by an Under-Secretary-General.
Moreover, the resolution requested that the Secretary-General of the United
Nations produce a proposal specifying the mission statement of the
composite entity and its organizational arrangements, including an
organizational chart, funding and the executive board to oversee its
operational activities.[9]
Structure and functioning
Resolution 64/289 determined that the entity should be headed by an Under-Secretary-General, to be appointed by the Secretary-General in consultation with Member States, for a term of four years, with the possibility of renewal for one term.
The organization is governed by a multi-tiered intergovernmental governance structure in charge of providing normative and operational policy guidance. The General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, and the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) constitute the governance structure that sets forth the normative policy guiding principles of the Entity. The intergovernmental governance structure in charge of providing operational policy guidance to UN Women includes the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the organization’s Executive Board. The latter consist of forty-one members, elected by the Economic and Social Council for a term of three years and distributed as follows:
- Ten from the Group of African States
- Ten from the Group of Asian States
- Four from the Group of Eastern European States
- Six from the Group of Latin American and Caribbean
States
- Five from the Group of Western European and Other
States
- Six from contributing countries. Four seats will be
selected by and from the top ten largest providers of voluntary core
contributions to UN Women. The remaining two seats will be allocated to
two developing countries not members of the Development Assistance Committee
of the Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (DAC/OECD). These two
countries will be selected by the developing countries not members of the
Development Assistance Committee among the top ten providers of voluntary
core contributions to the entity.
The resources required to fund all normative processes are obtained from the
Entity’s regular budget and approved by the General Assembly, whereas the
budget fot service operational processes and activities at all levels are
funded from voluntary contributions and approved by the Executive Board of UN
Women.[10]
Current executive board
composition
The Executive Board, elected on 10 November 2010, consists of:[11]
- Africa: Angola, Cape Verde, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire,
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ethiopia, Lesotho, Libya, Nigeria
and Tanzania
- Asia: Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Malaysia, Pakistan, Republic of Korea and Timor-Leste
- Eastern Europe: Estonia, Hungary, Russian Federation
and Ukraine
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Brazil,
Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Grenada and Peru
- Western Europe: Denmark, France, Italy, Luxembourg and
Sweden
- Contributing Countries: Mexico, Norway, Saudi Arabia,
Spain, United Kingdom and United States
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