[New York, December 5, 2011] GEAR Campaign representative, Charlotte Bunch of the Center for Women’s Global Leadership (CWGL), presented the campaign statement at the second UN Women Executive Board meeting.

[Montevideo, November 10, 2011] Letter to UN Women from women’s organizations in the Latin American and Caribbean region.

[Argentina, September 2011] On September 7th representatives came together to: a.) write to Argentina’s Minister of Foreign Affairs requesting an increase in Argentina’s contribution to UN WOMEN; b.) develop a thematic proposal for UN WOMEN’s Executive branch in order to prioritize the following issues in 2012-13.

[New York, June 28, 2011] Notes the civil society consultation in plan preparation, but urges countries and donors to complete financing of the new entity in order to carry it out.

[New York, June 27, 2011] GEAR Campaign Regional Focal Point, Mabel Bianco of Fundación para Estudio e Investigación de la Mujer (FEIM) presented the campaign statement at the second UN Women Executive Board meeting.

[May 17, 2011] On behalf of our members, composed of women’s human rights, health, development and human rights organizations working at the local, national, regional and global levels, the GEAR Campaign has highlighted themes based on feedback we have received from our constituency for the Strategic Plan (2011 – 2013).

[Argentina, May 2, 2011] Between February 21 and March 17, 2011, these consultations were conducted in the countries in the region. The majority of them were done at country level, although a regional consultation was held in Panama in early March.

[New York, April 26, 2011] UN Women has made the Elements document paper available to partners so as to secure inputs and feedback on the proposed Strategic Directions of the Entity.

[Oregon, April 22, 2011] At the Women’s Funding Network Conference this April, World Pulse founder, Jensine Larsen, had the privilege of delivering a bundle of letters from grassroots women leaders worldwide directly to the newly appointed UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Michelle Bachelet.

[New York, April 11, 2011] Over the last six months, UN Women has been preparing for its first Strategic Plan with guidance from a variety of partners including governments,civil society, academia and the UN system.