in the same year undps executive board reported that since undp has invested great efforts in strengthening capacity for gender mainstreaming and requests undp both to continue to maintain and to increase its investments to accelerate the strengthening of capacity and the delivery of programming for gender equality and the empowerment of women in line with the gender equality strategy it also cochairs the united nations development group subgroup on accounting for resources and will serve on the unswap gender marker help desk in the global gender team also provides technical support to the world food programme in its development of a certificate of excellence similar to the gender equality seal and has advised on its gender policy the vast majority of this support was policy advice and advice on piloting new approaches and tools