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 39% indicated it was “somewhat helpful” and 10% indicated it was “very helpful”. Only 5% of respondents indicated the GES was “not helpful at all”. In addition, 46% of respondents indicated that their office created its own gender equality strategy and action plan to guide its work.