it has an internal corporate responsibility to provide policy advice and an external representational function in the un system it also serves as secretariat of the gender strategy implementation committee set up after the launch of the ges which was chaired in the early years by the administrator and later by the associate administrator another indicated it was somewhat helpful and indicated it was very helpful only of respondents indicated the ges was not helpful at all in addition of respondents indicated that their office created its own gender equality strategy and action plan to guide its work