The second meeting of the informal consultations of the UNGA plenary on System-wide Coherence convened on 30 March 2009, at UN headquarters in New York, US.

Discussions focused on the Secretary-General’s paper “Further Details on Institutional Options for Strengthening the Institutional Arrangements for Support of Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women.” The paper focuses on the composite entity option, but also: lays out other options for gender architecture, including maintaining the status quo, establishing a separately administered Fund/Programme, and consolidating UN gender bodies in a Department of the Secretariat; and highlights the composite entity and Fund/Programme options as having the greatest potential to create a stronger and more coordinated UN system to support countries to advance gender equality and be an effective driver for the UN system.
Links to further information
President’s Options Paper, 5 March 2009
President’s letter, 13 March 2009