Annual Session 2025

17-19 June 2025; in-person only in ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations HQ. | The Session will live-stream on UN-Web TV 

Decisions

• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women during its Annual Session 2025
• The matrix monitoring the implementation of the Executive Board decisions
• Schedule for informal consultations on draft decisions

Information Notes

• Information Note from the Secretariat on participation at the Annual Session

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan of the annual session of 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• PPT Presentation
• Report on the first regular session of 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the second regular session of 2025 [EN | FR | ES]

Opening of the Session

• Statement by the President of the Executive Board
• Statement by the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of UN-Women

Annual Report of the Executive Director

• Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on the implementation of the Strategic Plan 2022–2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Annex I: Financial Results: Revenue and expenditures
  • Annex II: 2024 Global Results of Strategic Plan in Transparency Portal (User Guide)
  • Annex III: Report on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 75/233 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for the development of the United Nations System
  • Annex IV: Summary of 2024 results of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  • Annex V: Concise summary of the oversight functions responsible for audit, investigation, ethics, evaluation and protection against retaliation
• Management response to Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) reports issued in 2024

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of UN-Women in 2024 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Management response (PPT)
• Report on the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-Women’s support to women's participation in peace processes [EN | FR | ES]
  • Management perspective

Audit and investigation matters

• Report of the internal audit and investigation activities for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2024 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Management response
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Oversight for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2024 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • PPT presentation
  • Management response
• Report of the Executive Director of UN Women on disciplinary measures and other actions taken in response to misconduct and unsatisfactory conduct by UN Women staff members, other personnel or third parties and cases of possible criminal behaviour 1 January-31 December 2024

Ethics

• Annual Report on the Ethics Function [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Management response

JIU review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women

• Update on the progress of the JIU review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women (JIU/REP/2023/7)
  • Working Methods and roadmap for the work of the Joint Working Group of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women Executive Boards on the Governance and Oversight Functions of the Executive Boards

Strategic Plan

• Draft Strategic Plan of UN-Women 2026-2029 (Advance Unedited Version)
  • Annex I: Draft Integrated Results and Resources Framework of UN-Women Strategic Plan 2026-2029

Financial, budgetary and administrative matters

• Draft integrated budget estimates of UN-Women for the biennium 2026–2027 (Advance Unedited Version)
  • PPT Presentation

Addressing racism and racial discrimination

• Update on UN-Women’s efforts to address racism and racial discrimination

Policy and programme matters

• Briefing on the operational response of UN-Women at the regional level
  • Background Note
  • PPT Presentation
• Update on the implementation efforts on the repositioning of the United Nations development system
  • Background Note
• Update on UN-Women policies and procedures to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment
  • Background Note
  • UN-Women 2025 action plan on protection from sexual exploitation and abuse
  • Management Letter

Closing of the session

• Statement by the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of UN-Women
• Statement by the President of the Executive Board