Multi-Year Programme of Work of the Commission on the Status of Women

E/RES/2020/15View PDF

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A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19aAdvancement of women, published in 2020.

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17 operative paragraphs

A.Themes for the period 2021–2024

Decides that the multi-year programme of work of the Commission on the Status of Women for the sixty-fifth, sixty-sixth, sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth sessions will be as follows:

Sixty-fifth session (2021):

Priority theme: Women’s full and effective participation and decision-making in public life, as well as the elimination of violence, for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;

Review theme: Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development (agreed conclusions of the sixtieth session);

Sixty-sixth session (2022):

Priority theme: Achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls in the context of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes;

Review theme: Women’s economic empowerment in the changing world of work (agreed conclusions of the sixty-first session);

Sixty-seventh session (2023):

Priority theme: Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls;

Review theme: Challenges and opportunities in achieving gender equality and the empowerment of rural women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-second session);

Sixty-eighth session (2024):

Priority theme: Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing poverty and strengthening institutions and financing with a gender perspective;

Review theme: Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls (agreed conclusions of the sixty-third session);

Requests the Commission, in order to achieve concrete results in each review cycle, to consider and make a recommendation at its sixty-sixth session, in 2022, on how best to utilize the year 2025, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women, so as to accelerate the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls and the full realization of their human rights;

Affirms that the Commission will contribute to the thematic reviews of progress on the Sustainable Development Goals taking place at the high-level political forum on sustainable development;

B.Methods of work

Decides that at its sixty-sixth session, in 2022, the Commission should review, as appropriate, its methods of work, adopted by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2015/6, taking into consideration the outcome of the process of alignment of the agendas of the General Assembly and the Council and its subsidiary bodies, with a view to further enhancing the impact of the work of the Commission;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Commission at its sixty-sixth session, taking into consideration the outcome of the process of alignment of the agendas of the General Assembly and the Council and its subsidiary bodies, a report on ways and means to further enhance the impact of the work of the Commission.

17 July 2020