Report by the Under Secretary-General of UN Women (E/CN.6/2011/2)

1. In its resolution 64/289, the General Assembly established the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women). It requested the head of UN-Women to submit to the Commission on the Status of Women an annual report on the normative aspects of the Entity's work and on its implementation of the policy guidance provided by the Commission in paragraph 67 (c) of the resolution. The present report is submitted in accordance with that request.

2. As I assumed my responsibilities only slightly more than two months ago, the present report focuses on two areas aimed at turning UN-Women into an entity capable of fully responding to the expectations set out by Member States in resolution 64/289. The first area focuses on the elaboration of my vision and strategic direction for UN-Women, and the second focuses on the critical administrative and institutional changes needed to consolidate the previous four offices into a dynamic and innovative structure that also integrates the additional role entrusted to UN-Women by the General Assembly of leading, coordinating and promoting the accountability of the United Nations system in its work on gender equality and the empowerment of women. My future reports to the Commission will elaborate on how UN-Women supports the gender-specific intergovernmental processes and works to strengthen attention to gender equality aspects across sectoral and thematic intergovernmental bodies and processes. It will also discuss UN-Women's concrete support for the implementation at different levels of the policy guidance provided by the Commission, especially at the national level, and on cooperation and coordination with relevant stakeholders in those efforts.

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