First Regular Session 2025

10-11 February 2025; in-person only in ECOSOC Chamber, United Nations HQ. | The Session will be livestreamed on UN-Web TV.

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Decisions

• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women during its First Regular Session 2025
• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at its 2024 sessions
• The matrix monitoring the implementation of the Executive Board decisions

Information notes

• Information Note from the Secretariat on the participation in the First Regular Session

Opening of the session

• Opening remarks by President of the UN-Women Executive Board
• Opening remarks by Executive Director of UN-Women
• Statements by Member States and observers

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan for the first regular session 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Annual workplan for the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the annual session of 2025 [EN | FR | ES]
• Report on the second regular session of 2024 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]

Audit matters

• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 and the report of the Board of Auditors on the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023 (Chapter I - II)
  • Chapter III - V, UN-Women Submission
• Implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors contained in its reports on the United Nations funds and programmes for the year ended 31 December 2023
• UN-Women updated management actions on the recommendations of the United Nations Board of Auditors for 2023: Status of implementation
  • Background note

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

• Information note on the JIU review: Initial views of UN-Women Management
• Information note on the JIU review: Initial views of the Independent Evaluation, Audit and Investigation Services 
• Information note on the JIU review: Initial views of the Ethics Offices of UNDP, UNFPA, UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women
• Terms of reference for the working group established as a follow-up to the JIU  ‘Review of the governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women'
• JIU review of governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN Women (JIU/REP/2023/7)

Organizational culture, anti-discrimination and anti-racism

• Address by the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS and UN-Women Staff Council and management action
• 2023 Annual Report of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes [EN | FR | ES]
• Update on organizational culture, anti-discrimination and anti-racism
  • Background note

Risk Management

• Update on the continuous work to improve the system of enterprise risk management and critical risks of strategic importance
  • Background note

Joint UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting

• Follow-up on the recommendations and decisions of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting

Field Visit

• Report of the joint field visit to Cambodia by members of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP [EN | FR | ES]

Closing of the session

• Closing remarks by President of the UN-Women Executive Board
• Closing remarks by Executive Director of UN-Women