Annual Session 2026

23-25 June 2026; in-person only in Trusteeship Council Chamber, 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 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 (Advance version)
• 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 (Advance version)

Engagement with UN80 Initiative

Audit and investigation matters

• Report of the internal audit and investigation activities for the period of 1 January to 31 December 2025 (Advance version)
  • 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 (Advance version)
  • Management response

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of UN-Women in 2025 (Advance version)
  • Management response (PPT)
• Report on the corporate thematic evaluation of UN-Women’s support to intergovernmental processes (Advance version)
  • Management perspective

Ethics

• Annual Report on the ethics function (Advance version)
• 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)

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

Field visit

• Report on the UN-Women Executive Board field visit in 2026

Closing of the session

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