UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan, 2026–2029 (Second regular session 2025)
E/ICEF/2025/32
About
The UNICEF Gender Equality Action Plan, 2026–2029 provides the road map for the organization’s key commitments to advancing gender equality and the empowerment of all girls and women, anchored in the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2026–2029. Building on UNICEF comparative advantages, lessons learned from prior gender action plans, as well as evidence of proven strategies to effect change at scale in the lives of girls and women, the Gender Equality Action Plan sets targets to enhance access by girls and women to quality services across all five Impact Results of the Strategic Plan. A special emphasis is placed on boosting investments to advance the well-being, leadership and agency of adolescent girls, recognizing that investments in this age cohort yield multiple dividends for children, families and societies. The role of UNICEF in convening partners and influencing budgets, policies and systems is underscored, both for greater national ownership and long-term impact. UNICEF will lead by example, adhering to financial expenditure benchmarks for gender equality, implementing robust measures for monitoring and reporting on progress to achieve programmatic targets, and nurturing safe, equitable and empowered workplaces. For when girls and women rise, the world rises with them.
United Nations Children’s Fund
Executive Board
Second regular session 2025
2–5 September 2025
