A/HRC/26/38 the Inter-agency Task Force on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women, the Inter-agency Task Force on Adolescent Girls and the Inter-agency Working Group of the Secretary-General’s campaign, UNiTE to End Violence against Women.20 41. One of the five priority areas of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) is ending violence against women. The efforts of UN-Women in this regard include standard setting, technical assistance, financial assistance, education, advocacy, data collection and coordination. The entity supports Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services needed to implement these standards, including in developing and implementing national action plans to end violence against women.21 UN-Women also participates in a number of joint programmes with partner agencies at the country level and coordinates the SecretaryGeneral’s UNiTE campaign and the COMMIT initiative. The Inventory of United Nations activities to prevent and eliminate violence against women describes the efforts of 38 United Nations entities, the International Organization for Migration and six inter-agency partnerships. UN-Women has also developed the Virtual Knowledge Centre to End Violence against Women and Girls, an online resource centre. 42. The vast amount of work by United Nations entities to address violence against women is laudable. However, there are gaps and duplication among the policies and programmes of many agencies. Furthermore, the use of similar methods to address the issue suggests that there is scope for further coordination and collaboration among the various United Nations entities and their partners. Such collaboration would contribute to more substantive and targeted programming, and would also free up resources for more effective interventions. F. Mandate of the Special Rapporteur 43. The mandate of Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences was created on 4 March 1994 by the Commission on Human Rights in its resolution 1994/45 on the question of integrating the rights of women into the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and the elimination of violence against women. In that resolution, the Commission outlined the main scope of the mandate and invited the Special Rapporteur to carry out the mandate within the framework of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and all other international human rights instruments, including the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women. 44. In the same resolution, the Commission requested all Governments to cooperate with and assist the Special Rapporteur in the performance of the tasks and duties mandated and to furnish all information requested. The resolution requested the Secretary-General to provide the mandate holder with all necessary assistance, in particular the staff and resources required to perform all mandated functions, especially in carrying out and following up on missions, and adequate assistance for periodic consultations with CEDAW and all other treaty bodies. It also requested the Secretary-General to ensure that the reports of the Special Rapporteur were brought to the attention of CSW to assist it in its work in the area of violence against women. 20 21 12 See UN-Women, Inventory of United Nations system activities to prevent and eliminate violence against women, February 2014. Available from www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/vaw/v-inventory.htm. Ibid.