First Regular Session 2026

18-19 February 2026; in-person only in Trusteeship Council Chamber, United Nations HQ. | The Session will be livestreamed 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 First Regular Session 2026
• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at its 2025 sessions [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• 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 Executive Director of UN-Women

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan for the first regular session 2026 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Annual workplan for the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) for 2026 [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the annual session of 2026 [EN | FR | ES]
• Report on the second regular session of 2025

Engagement with UN80 Initiative

• PowerPoint Presentation

Audit matters

• United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024 and Report of the Board of Auditors [AR | ZH | EN | FR | RU | ES]
  • PPT: Update on Financial Regulations and Rules - Financial Report and Audited Financial Statements for the year ended 31 December 2024
  • PPT: United Nations Board of Auditors reports on UN Women for the financial year ended 31 December 2024
• 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 2024: report of the Secretary-General
• Updated status of UN-Women management actions to address outstanding audit recommendations
  • PPT: Management response to the report of the United Nations Board of Auditors
• Update on the revised Financial Regulations and Rules
  • Proposed Revisions to the Financial Regulations for UN-Women (Advance unedited version)
  • Corrigendum to Proposed Revisions to the Financial Regulations
  • Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the Proposed Revisions to the Financial Regulations for UN-Women
  • Management response to the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions for the Proposed Revisions to the Financial Regulations for UN-Women
  • Aide Memoir - Changes to FRRs
  • Summary of work performed to identify proposed changes to UN-Women Financial Regulations and Rules

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
  • PowerPoint Presentation

Organizational culture

• Address by the UN-Women Staff Council Representative and management action
• Annual Report of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes
  • Statement of the Ombudsman: Presentation of the 2024 Annual Report
• Organizational culture and anti-discrimination

Anti-racism and racial discrimination

• Update on efforts to address racism and racial discrimination

Risk Management

• Update on Risk Management and Principal Risks facing UN-Women
  • PPT: Risk Management

Joint UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting

• UN-Women's follow-up to recommendations of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board meeting

Joint field visit

• Report of the joint field visit to Egypt by members of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP, 26–30 October 2025 [AR | EN | FR | ES]

Closing of the session

• Closing remarks by Executive Director of UN-Women