UN-Women Executive Board
The United Nations General Assembly through it Resolution (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 and 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, TBC
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Joint meeting of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP, 27 May
- Annual Session, 21-23 June
- Second Regular Session, 14-15 September
Note: Previous years, including 2020, are available through the “Executive Board documents” page.
