UN-Women Executive Board
The United Nations General Assembly, through General Assembly resolution 64/289, decided to establish the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be known as UN-Women a composite entity of the UN system from 1 January 2011.
The General Assembly also established the UN-Women Executive Board as the Governing Body of the Entity to provide intergovernmental support to and supervision of its operational activities (paragraph 50 and 57)
The rules of procedure of the Executive Board (UNW/2011/6) were adopted by the Board in 2011. Functions and working methods of the Executive Board are described in the Informal Guide to the UN-Women Executive Board.
Joint Calendar – Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF & UN-Women
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UN-Women Executive Board Calendar 2025
UN-Women Executive Board Calendar 2024*
* Previous years can be accessed via the Executive Board Documents page.
Documents of Executive Board sessions, informal briefings, and other meetings in 2024:
- Election of the Bureau 2024, 10 January
- Informal briefing on evaluation, 18 January
- Informal briefing on audit matters, 18 January
- Measures taken to improve forward looking and efficient budget management, 19 January
- Orientation on the oversight mechanism and the ethics function of UN Women, 22 January
- Pre-session in advance of the First Regular Session & orientation on the annual update of UN-Women activities with the Executive Board, 26 January
- Informal negotiations on draft decisions for the First Regular Session, 5 February
- First Regular Session, 12-13 February
- Informal briefing on UN-Women’s role in advancing gender parity across the United Nations, 14 February
- Joint briefing on the Review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women, 6 March
- Second Workshop with the Executive Board on Mid-Term Review of Strategic Plan 2022-2025, 25 March
- Informal briefing on risk management, 3 April
- Joint briefing on cost recovery, 4 April
- (Second) Joint briefing on the Review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women, 8 May
- Informal briefing on the Ethics Function, 16 May
- Informal briefings on (1) Audit and Investigation Matters & (2) Evaluation, 21 May
- Updates on (1) the implementation efforts on the repositioning of the United Nations Development System & (2) on UN-Women policies to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment, 21 May
- Informal briefing on the annual report of the Executive Director of UN-Women on progress made on the Strategic Plan 2022-2025 and midterm review of the Strategic Plan, 29 May
- Joint Meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-WOMEN and WFP, 31 May
- Pre-session in advance of the Annual Session, 31 May
- Informal consultations on draft decisions for the Annual Session, 10 June
- Annual Session, 18-20 June
- Joint briefing on cost recovery with UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN-Women, 24 June
- Informal briefing on Generation Equality, 11 July
- Informal briefing on Structured Dialogue on Financing, 7 August
- Joint briefing on cost recovery with UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN-Women, 9 August
- Pre-session in advance of the Second Regular Session & Informal briefing on the UN-Women Strategic Plan 2026-2029 Roadmap, 22 August
- Informal briefing on Beijing+30, 6 September
- Second Regular Session, 10-11 September
- Informal briefing on the implementation of CSW outcomes, 2 December
- Closed informal briefing with the Independent Evaluation, Audit and Investigation Services, 5 December
- Informal briefing on Gender Equality Acceleration Plan, 10 December
- Joint workshop on the development of the Strategic Plans 2026-2029 of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women, 13 December
- Informal briefing on pivoting to regions and countries, 16 December
