introducing the Secretary-General's report on the United Nations Development Fund for Women (A/40/727), highlighted three areas of the report: administrative arrangements, operations and resource mobilization. In essence, the administrative arrangements were that UNIFEM continued to pay all of its own staff and office expenses, including office rental, and was paying the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) 1.5 per cent of project value as reimbursement for administrative costs, discontinuing the 13 per cent previously paid to the United Nations for the same purpose. The Fund, as a separate and identifiable entity in association with UNDP, was accorded full autonomy in its day-to-day operations under the responsibility of its own Director, who was directly accountable to the Administrator of UNDP. 21. Under General Assembly resolution 39/125, the Fund's mandate established two priorities in the use of the resources: first, to serve as a catalyst to influence the flow of mainstream resources to women, especially at pre-investment stages, and, secondly, to support innovative and experimental activities benefiting women in line with national and regional priorities. Since the Fund became operational in 1978, it had financed more than 450 activities for the benefit of women, ranging from studies of national planning processes in the Asia and Pacific region through co-operation with the World Food Programme in four Latin American countries. TO sharpen its focus on national and regional priority areas, the Fund had also formulated regional action plans, inter alia, in Africa and in Latin America and the Caribbean. 22. The expanded mandate of UNIFEM -to influence the flow of mainstream resources -came at a critical moment when the economic situation of many low-income countries had been compounded by debt problems, and in Africa also by drought. The expanded mandate also came at a time when a number of evaluations of 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and its role in promoting women's development, with a focus on influencing the flow of mainstream resources and supporting innovative activities. The text highlights the Fund's administrative arrangements, operations, and resource mobilization, as well as its regional action plans and priorities. Given the focus on women's development and the Fund's role in promoting economic and social development, it is likely that the category is related to economic development and humanitarian aid.

**Category**
Economic development, Humanitarian aid and relief