Annual Session 2024

18-20 June 2024; in-person only in CR-2, 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 2024
• The matrix monitoring the implementation of the Executive Board decisions

Information Notes

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

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan of the annual session of 2024
• Report on the first regular session of 2024
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the second regular session of 2024

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, including the midterm review of the Strategic Plan
• Report of the Executive Director of UN-Women on disciplinary measures and other actions taken in response to misconduct and wrongdoing by UN-Women staff members, other personnel or third parties and cases of possible criminal behaviour, 1 January to 31 December 2023

Third-party Joint Assessment on Governance and Oversight Functions of the Executive Boards

• Third-party Joint Assessment on Governance and Oversight Functions of the Executive Boards

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of UN-Women in 2023
• Report on the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-Women’s support to women's political participation
• Management perspective and response

Audit and investigation matters

• Report of the internal audit and investigation activities for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2023
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Oversight for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2023
• Management responses

Ethics

• Report on the activities of the UN-Women ethics function
• Management response

Policy and programme matters

• Briefing on the operational response of UN-Women at the regional level
• Update on the implementation efforts on the repositioning of the United Nations development system
• Update on the work of UN-Women in enhancing gender parity and creating enabling environments in the UN System
• Update on UN-Women policies and procedures to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment

Field Visit

• Report on the field visit of the UN-Women Executive Board to New Zealand and Vanuatu 2023 [EN | FR | ES]

Closing of the session

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