created on 2 July 2010 by the General Assembly, to be operational by 1 January 2011, to function as a secretariat and carry out operational activities at the country level, consolidating and transferring to the Entity the existing mandates and functions of the Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women and the Division for the Advancement of Women of the Secretariat, as well as those of the United Nations Development Fund for Women and the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women -- United Nations bodies that, consequently, were all dissolved