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
UN-Women Executive Board Calendar 2021
Documents of Executive Board sessions, informal briefings, and other meetings in 2021:
- Election of the Bureau, 12 January
- Joint briefing with UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women Executive Boards with the Development Coordination Office on country programme documents and UNSDCF processes, 18 January
- Pre-Session and Informal briefing on International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Innovative Financing, 25 January
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Informal briefing on Strategic Plan prior to Executive Board First Regular Session, 25 January
- Informal briefing on Evaluation, 26 January
- Informal briefing on Audit, 27 January
- Informal briefing on UN-Women COVID-19 response, 8 February
- First Regular Session, 15-16 February
- Informal briefing on Field-specific Enabling Environment Guidelines, 18 February
- Annual update on UN-Women activities with Executive Board membership, 3 March
- Update on IFI engagement — Translating common commitments to joint action, 11 March
- Second UN-Women Workshop on Strategic Plan (2022-2025), 7 April
- Joint briefing on the UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women Strategic Plans 2022-2025, 13 April
- Third UN-Women Workshop on Strategic Plan (2022-2025), 28 April
- Joint UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN-Women Structured Funding Dialogue 2021, 7 May
- Joint meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP, 27 May
- Informal briefing on update on implementation of resolution 72/279, 27 May
- Pre-Session and Informal briefings on Strategic Plan 2022-2025, ED's Annual Report 2020, and Integrated Budget 2022-2023, 28 May
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Informal briefing and consultation: "Raising the Ambition on UN System Coordination", 14 June
- Informal briefing on Audit, 15 June
- Informal briefing on Evaluation, 15 June
- Informal brefing on update on the implementation of recommendations in the independent victim-centred review of UN-Women policies and processes on tackling sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment and as noted in the related management response, 17 June
- Annual Session, 21-23 June
- Second Regular Session, 14-15 September
