Annual Session 2019

Tuesday, 18 June 2019 - Thursday, 20 June 2019, Conference Room 3, UN Headquarters, New York

Opening of the session

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

Organizational matters

• Annotated provisional agenda and workplan for the annual session of 2019 (UNW/2019/L.3)
  
• Report on the first regular session of 2019 (UNW/2019/1)
  
• Provisional agenda and workplan for the second regular session of 2019 (UNW/2019/CRP.3)
  

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 2018-2021 (UNW/2019/2)
  

• Annexes:

  • Strategic Plan Results Portal
    
  • Working together to support implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Joint annex on implementation of the Common Chapter of the Strategic Plans 2018–2021 of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN-Women
  • Annex I: Financial results
  • Annex II: 2018 waivers granted lowering the agreed cost-recovery rates
  • Annex III: Summary results of the Fund for Gender Equality and the UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women
  • Annex IV: Report on the implementation of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system

Update on the implementation on the General Assembly resolution 72/279

• Update on the implementation on the General Assembly resolution 72/279 | PowerPoint Slides

Update on the working methods of the Executive Boards

• Written account of the core group of Member States on working methods of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFP
• Annexes

Financial, budgetary and administrative matters

• Advance unedited version of the draft integrated budget estimates for the biennium 2020-2021 | PowerPoint slides

Evaluation

• Report on the evaluation function of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, 2018 (UNW/2019/4) | PowerPoint slides
• Management response
• Corporate evaluation of UN-Women’s contribution to governance and national planning (UNW/2019/CRP.2)  | PowerPoint slides
• Management response | PowerPoint slides

Audit and investigation

• Report on the internal audit and investigation activities for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2018 (UNW/2019/3) | PowerPoint slides
• Management response | PowerPoint slides
• Annex of the Management response
  
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Oversight (ACO) for the period from 1 January to 31 December 2018 (UNW/2019/3/Add.1)
• Management response | PowerPoint slides
• Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) reports issued to UN Women, 2018
• Management response | PowerPoint Slides

Policy and programme matters

• Background paper on the operational response at country level: Côte d'Ivoire | PowerPoint Slides | Video Clip
• Background paper on UN-Women’s work on the empowerment of women and girls with disabilities
  
• Annual certification to the Executive Board at each annual session, to cover sexual exploitation and abuse, and sexual harassment
• An independent victim-centered review of UN-Women's policies and processes on tackling sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment
• Management response | PowerPoint Slides by Greet De Leeuw | PowerPoint Slides by Purna Sen

Decisions

• Decisions adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women at its 2019 Annual Session

Closing of the session

• Statement by Aparna MEHROTRA, UN System Coordination Division of UN-Women, on behalf of Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the Under Secretary-General/Executive Director of UN-Women