[New York, 28 March 2010] The GEAR Campaign requires the UN to move swiftly forward to create the new UN gender equality entity. The GEAR Campaign statement of March 2010 lines out the elements that the civil society sees as key for the success of the new entity:

• The entity needs to be the driver in the UN system for women's empowerment and gender equality with strong, country-level operational capacity
• The entity should be ambitiously funded with stable and predictable resources 
• The entity needs meaningful, systematic and diverse civil society participation
• The transparent recruitment process for the Under-Secretary General to lead the entity must begin now.

[Read the GEAR Campaign Statement 2010]