[New York, September 2008] The UN General Assembly resolution on System-wide Coherence of 15 September requests the UN Secretary General to produce a detailed paper on the options for new gender equality architecture, focusing on the so-called "composite entity."

Paragraph 5 of resolution 62/277 reads: "Welcomes, in this overall context, the paper on “Institutional options to strengthen United Nations work on gender equality and the empowerment of women”, which the Deputy Secretary-General provided to the President of the General Assembly on 23 July 2008, and requests the Secretary-General to provide a further, detailed modalities paper in respect of the options set out in the Deputy Secretary-General’s paper, covering funding, governance structure, staffing, specific functions, relationship with the Commission on the Status of Women and other relevant bodies and, having regard to the totality of views expressed by Member States in informal plenary consultations on 8 September 2008, focusing in particular on the “composite entity” option with a view to facilitating substantive action by the General Assembly during the sixty-third session;"

[Read the resolution A/RES/62/277]