Annual Session 2026

23-25 June 2026; in-person only in CR-3 and Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations HQ. | The Session will live-stream on UN-Web TV 

Registration links

• Kindly submit your credentials here: https://forms.gle/JJcKppqZU66PBHQ2A
• To register for the Speakers’ List for agenda item 2: Annual Report of the ED: https://forms.gle/2PW7Fxtji8TBbpLF7

• To register for the Speakers’ List for agenda item 3: Engagement with UN80 Initiative: https://forms.gle/EFCnx2W5zmuygswr5

• Registration for informal consultations at UN-Women Headquarters: https://forms.gle/d316Ddj3sdvh6VfK7

Decisions

• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women during its Annual Session 2026
• 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 2026 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• PowerPoint presentation
• Report on the first regular session of 2026 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the second regular session of 2026 [EN | FR | ES]

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 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Annex I: Financial Results
  • Annex II: 2025 Global Results of Strategic Plan in Transparency Portal (User Guide) 
  • Annex III: Report on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 79/226 on the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system
  • Annex IV: Summary of 2025 results of the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  • Annex V: Concise summary of the oversight functions responsible for audit, investigation, ethics, evaluation and protection against retaliation
• Annex: Management response to the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) reports issued in 2025

• Integrated Results and Resources Framework of UN-Women’s Strategic Plan 2026–2029

Engagement with UN80 Initiative

• UN80 Initiative website
• Strategic Merger Assessment of UNFPA and UN Women: Final Consolidated Report
• Joint informal briefing with the Executive Board and Commission on the Status of Women
• Joint letter from the Executive Directors of UN-Women and UNFPA

• Joint UNFPA-UN Women Consultation with CSOs on the Merger Assessment

Audit and investigation matters

• Report of the internal audit and investigation activities for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Management Response 
  • Annex: Report of the Executive Director of UN Women on disciplinary measures and other actions taken in response to misconduct and unsatisfactory conduct by UN Women staff members, other personnel or third parties and cases of possible criminal behaviour 1 January-31 December 2025
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Oversight for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • PowerPoint presentation
  • Management response
  • Joint management response PowerPoint presentation

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of UN-Women in 2025 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • Management response (PPT)
• Report on the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-Women’s support to intergovernmental processes [EN | FR | ES]
  • Management perspective

Ethics

• Annual Report on the ethics function [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • 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(JIU/REP/2023/7)

  • Interim report of the Joint Working Group on the Joint Inspection Unit review of the governance and oversight of the Executive Boards of the UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and the UN-Women

Policy and programme matters

• Update on the implementation efforts on the repositioning of the United Nations development system
  • Background Note
• Update on UN-Women policies and procedures to tackle sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment
  • Background Note
  • UN-Women 2026 Action Plan on Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA)
  • Management Letter on preventing, addressing and reporting on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and Sexual Harassment

Field visit

• Report on the UN-Women Executive Board field visit in 2026 [EN | FR | ES]

Closing of the session

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