Annual Session 2025

17-19 June 2025; 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 2025
• The matrix monitoring the implementation of the Executive Board decisions
• Schedule for informal consultations on draft decisions

Information Notes

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

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan of the annual session of 2025 (Advance version)
• Report on the first regular session of 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the second regular session of 2025 (Advance version)

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

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of UN-Women in 2024
• Report on the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-Women’s support to women's participation in peace processes
• 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 2024
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Oversight for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2024
• Management responses

Ethics

• Annual Report on the Ethics Function
• Management response

JIU review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women

• Update on the progress of the JIU review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women (JIU/REP/2023/7)

Strategic Plan

• Draft Strategic Plan of UN-Women 2026-2029

Financial, budgetary and administrative matters

• Draft integrated budget estimates of UN-Women for the biennium 2026–2027

Addressing racism and racial discrimination

• Update on UN-Women’s efforts to address racism and racial discrimination

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 UN-Women policies and procedures to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment

Closing of the session

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