UN-Women Executive Board
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
The Executive Board governs the operational activities of UN-Women and provides operational policy guidance to the Entity (General Assembly resolution 64/289, paragraph 57(b)).
Functions and working methods are described in the Informal Guide to the UN-Women Executive Board.
Executive Board Calendar
Upcoming events
| First regular session 2017 |
13-14 February 2017 | Documents |
2016 calendar
| Election of the UN-Women Executive Board Bureau 2016 | 11 January 2016 | Bureau 2016 |
| Informal briefing on the midterm review process |
22 January 2016 |
Documents |
| Orientation of new Executive Board Members | 22 January 2016 |
Documents |
| Pre-Session in advance of the First regular session 2016 | 26 January 2016 | Documents |
| First regular session 2016 | 9 February 2016 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on the internal review of evaluation | 16 February 2016 | Documents |
| Workshop on the midterm review of UN-Women’s strategic plan 2014-2017 | 12 April 2016 | Documents |
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Joint meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP |
3 June 2016 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on the report on internal audit and investigation activities for the period 1 January to 31 December 2015 | 9 June 2016 |
Documents |
| Informal briefing on the report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women on progress made on the strategic plan, 2014-2017 including the midterm review of the strategic plan | 10 June 2016 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on the report on the evaluation function of UN-Women 2015 | 13 June 2016 | Documents |
| Pre-session in advance of the Annual session 2016 | 20 June 2016 | Documents |
| Annual session 2016 | 27–28 June 2016 | Documents |
| Joint informal briefing on the report on the independent and external assessment of the harmonized cost recovery methodology | 23 August 2016 | Documents |
| Pre-session in advance of the Second regular session 2016 |
26 August 2016 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on structured dialogue on financing | 26 August 2016 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on evaluation | 30 August 2016 | Documents |
| High-level side event “Syrian Women, a Strong Constituency for Peace” | 31 August 2016 | Documents |
| Second regular session 2016 | 1–2 September 2016 | Documents |
2015 calendar
| Elections of the Executive Board Bureau 2015 | 7 January 2015 | Executive Board Bureau 2015 |
| Orientation of Executive Board members 2015 | 20 January 2015 | Documents |
| Pre-Session of the First regular session 2015 and informal briefing on evaluation | 23 January 2015 | Documents |
| Briefing on UN-Women’s operational response at the national level in support of Beijing+20 preparations | 2 February 2015 | Documents |
| Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP | 2 February 2015 | PaperSmart portal Documents |
| First regular session 2015 | 9 February 2015 | PaperSmart portal Documents |
| UN-Women’s response to the Ebola crisis in Liberia and Sierra Leone | 9 February 2015 | Documents |
| Joint field visit of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP | 24 April – 2 May 2015 | PaperSmart portal |
| Informal briefing on the draft Integrated Budget 2016–2017 | 13 May 2015 | Documents |
| Regional briefing for the Eastern European Group in advance of the annual session 2015 | 21 May 2015 | Documents |
| Regional briefing for the Asia-Pacific Group in advance of the annual session 2015 | 21 May 2015 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on the Report of the internal Audit and Investigation 2014 | 3 June 2015 | Documents |
| Regional briefing for the Latin American and Caribbean Group in advance of the annual session 2015 | 12 June 2015 | Documents |
| Pre-Session in advance of the 2015 Annual Session + briefing on the Annual Report of the Under-Secretary-General/Executive Director | 15 June 2015 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on Evaluation | 23 June 2015 | Documents |
| Regional briefing for the African Group in advance of the annual session 2015 | 24 June 2015 | Documents |
| Annual session 2015 | 30 June – 2 July 2015 | PaperSmart portal Documents |
| United Nations Governing Bodies Secretariat Group: Seventh informal meeting | 23–24 July 2015 | PaperSmart portal |
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Briefing on UN-Women’s flagship report, “Progress of the World’s Women 2015–2016 – Transforming economies, realizing rights” |
26 August 2015 | Documents |
| 28 August 2015 | Documents | |
| Pre-Session in advance of the 2015 second regular session | 28 August 2015 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on structured dialogue on financing | 31 August 2015 | Documents |
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Informal briefing on the Integrated budget 2016–2017 as well as the management response to the Report of the Board of Auditors |
4 September 2015 | Documents |
| Informal briefing on Evaluation | 4 September 2015 | Documents |
| Second regular session 2015 | 15–16 September 2015 | PaperSmart portal Documents |
| Informal briefing on the global leaders’ commitment forum on gender equality and women’s empowerment | 16 September 2015 | Documents |
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Briefing on the flagship programming initiatives in the context of structured dialogue on financing |
8 October 2015 | Documents |
Note: All meetings of the UN-Women Executive Board are PaperSmart. Documents and statements will be made public on this website and in the Executive Board PaperSmart portal as they become available.
