UN-Women Executive Board Calendar 2025

* Previous years can be accessed via the Executive Board Documents page.

Documents of Executive Board sessions, informal briefings, and other meetings in 2025:

• Election of the Bureau 2025, 10 January
• Informal briefing on audit matters & risk management, 14 January
• Informal briefing on how UN-Women is improving organizational culture, and on its actions to prevent and respond to all forms of discrimination, 14 January
• Orientation on the annual update of UN-Women activities with the Executive Board, 16 January
• Joint informal consultation of the Executive Boards with the JIU, 21 January
• Pre-session in advance of the First Regular Session 2025 & Orientation on the oversight mechanism and the ethics function of UN-Women, 24 January
• Informal briefing on ongoing work to improve forward looking and efficient budget management, 24 January
• Informal consultations on draft decisions for the First Regular Session, 3 February
• First Regular Session, 10-11 February
• Informal briefing on the revision of the UN Women Financial Regulations and Rules, 24 February
• Informal briefing on the development of UN-Women Strategic Plan 2026-2029, 27 February
• Informal briefing on pivoting to regions and countries, 25 March
• Informal briefing on MOPAN assessment of UN-Women 2023-2024, 8 April
• Hybrid workshop on the development of the next Strategic Plan, 22 April
• Joint workshop on the development of the Strategic Plans 2026-2029 of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women, 25 April
• Update on UN-Women’s efforts to address racism and racial discrimination, 15 May
• (1) Informal briefing on ethics functions & (2) Update on the implementation efforts on the repositioning of the United Nations Development System, 19 May
• Informal briefings on (1) audit and investigation matters & (2) evaluation, 20 May
• Update on UN-Women policies to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, 20 May
• Pre-session in advance of the Annual Session & Informal briefings on EDAR and the draft SP 2026-2029, 28 May
• Informal briefing on the draft integrated budget estimates for the biennium 2026-2027, 29 May
• Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-WOMEN and WFP, 30 May
• Informal consultations on draft decisions for the Annual Session, 16 June
• Annual Session, 17-19 June
• Informal briefing on the draft revised UN-Women Financial Regulations and Rules, 20 June
• Informal briefing to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, 25 June
• Informal briefing with the UN-Women Staff Council Representatives, 26 June
• Joint briefing of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women on UN80, 15 August
• Informal briefing on the integrated budget 2026-2027, 19 August
• Informal briefing on the UN-Women Strategic Plan 2026-2029, 20 August
• Pre-session in advance of the Second Regular Session & informal briefing on Structured Dialogue on financing, 21 August
• Informal consultations on draft decisions for the Second Regular Session, 8 September
• Second Regular Session, 9-10 September
• Informal briefing on pivoting to regions and countries, 16 September
• Informal briefing on the corporate evaluation on UN-Women’s approach to violence against women prevention and response, 1 October
• Informal Briefing on UN80, 20 November
• Joint briefing of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP on UN80, 25 November
• Closed informal briefing with the Independent Evaluation, Audit and Investigation Services (IEAIS), 2 December