Second Regular Session 2025

9-10 September 2025; in-person only in 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 Second Regular 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 Second Regular Session

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan of the second regular session of 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• PPT Presentation
• Report on the annual session of 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Draft annual workplan of the Executive Board for 2026 [EN]
• Proposed provisional agenda and workplan for the first regular session 2026 [EN]

Opening of the Session

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

Strategic Plan

• Strategic Plan of UN-Women 2026-2029 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Annex I: Integrated Results and Resources Framework of UN-Women’s Strategic Plan 2026-2029
  • PPT Presentation
• Organizational Chart

Financial, budgetary and administrative matters

• Integrated budget estimates for UN-Women for the biennium 2026–2027 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Annex 1: Proposed organizational chart
  • Annex 2: Notional indirect cost recovery
  • Annex 3: Definitions
  • Annex 4: Statement of a comparison of budgeted and actual amounts for the year ended 31 December 2023
  • PPT Presentation
• Related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) [EN | FR | ES]
  • Management response
• Revised financial regulations and rules for UN-Women 
  • Informal aide-memoir on FRRs
  • PPT Presentation

Structured dialogue on financing

• Report on the structured dialogue on financing the results of the UN Women Strategic Plan 2022–2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Annex A: Progress against Member State and entity-specific commitments related to UN-Women
  • Annex: Annual joint report of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN Women on the implementation of the joint cost recovery policy
• PPT Presentation
• Informal briefing PPT Presentation

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
  • Joint Working Group Subdivision Options
  • Joint Working Group: Prioritization of JIU Recommendations

Policy and programme matters

• Background note on UN Women’s operational response at the regional level
  • PPT Presentation

Field visit

• Report on the UN Women Executive Board field visit in 2025 [EN | FR | ES]

Closing of the session

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