Speech: Our job is clear and its urgency apparent

I would love additionally acknowledge my colleagues, Nyaradzayi, Kirsi and their groups, our Regional Administrators, colleagues in nation and regional places of work, and naturally, Jean-Luc Bories and workforce who as ever saved our enterprise clean and environment friendly. I additionally wish to thank my workforce within the Govt Director’s Workplace. I’m in little doubt of how blessed I’m with the workforce I’m a part of and privileged to steer.

I do know a lot of you’ll go away this room and be a part of your Delegations as you proceed the crucial negotiations on the Pact for the Future. Your job shouldn’t be a straightforward one and there are a number of points demanding your consideration. However I’ll ask and count on of you all of you that the result you attempt for and in the end obtain locations girls and ladies at its coronary heart. 

We owe girls and ladies, humanity general, an formidable forward-looking pact that may chart a profitable course to 2030 and past.

It’s my hope, additionally, that you simply carry this power to CSW69, that you simply advocate and negotiate for a powerful and bold Political Declaration, lifting up the outcomes of the Summit of the Future, and amplifying your help for a strong and responsive multilateral system that works for all girls and ladies, in all places.

UN Girls, as we all the time do together with your help and steerage, would be the enabler, catalyst, convenor, advisor and advocate you count on us to be. We might be in order we evaluate implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform of Motion. 

We are going to, as you’ve gotten requested us, do every part in our energy to make sure that the true commemoration of the Declaration is thru change, the achievement of its imaginative and prescient, acceleration, and that every one of this happens on the bottom, bringing actual change to the lives of ladies and ladies. That’s what we aspire to within the nationwide Beijing evaluate course of and SDG5 evaluate forward of the Excessive-level Political Discussion board subsequent yr.

We look ahead to working with the newly elected President of the Normal Meeting, His Excellency, Philemon Yang and the President of ECOSOC His Excellency, Bob Rae, in the direction of this finish. That’s the reason we’re at your service to carry informals, help the CSW Bureau and this Govt Board nonetheless we are able to, and nonetheless you want.

And sure, we all know that in the end a lot of this can be a dialogue of the alternatives we make with our assets. There is no such thing as a acceleration with out very totally different funding selections. The world rightly bemoans its challenges, not least within the halls of this multilateral establishment. 

But it surely does so whereas spurning by means of under-investment the advantages of that confirmed, unarguable, compelling gender dividend that gives us not solely progress for girls and ladies and SDG5 however for the complete 2030 Agenda. And it’s certainly the litmus take a look at for our efforts within the subsequent 12 months whether or not our cash is the place our mouths are. It’s certainly what we might be held accountable for by these we serve.

For every part I ask of you, I acknowledge a corresponding name on us. My workforce and I’ve heard you loud and clear. If there’s a lesson since our institution it has been that for each milestone we go there are various nonetheless forward of us, that our progress and enchancment as UN Girls should be steady within the face of the essential mandate you gave us. What I ask of you, I embrace for us, and you’ll maintain us accountable as you need to. That features the suggestions of the JIU report which we’re engaged on as we converse.

This contains the suggestions on strengthening our coordination mandate. I heard from you additionally loud and clear. Please know that I’m decided that this might be central to our new Strategic Plan. And by putting the Secretariat of the Gender Equality Acceleration Plan in my Workplace I hope you might be left in little doubt as to my private direct involvement in guaranteeing that we ship. 

I additionally admire our discussions on funds and assets, at a time when these are scarce. I thank those that make the case with us for financing UN Girls consistent with our mandate and the Strategic Plan you tasked us to hold out. We are going to proceed to do our utmost to safe the quantities and sorts of assets we have to do what you requested us to do, however we’d like your help to do it. And we all know that you simply in flip want us to ship highly effective outcomes and talk them successfully so to afford us that help. 

What I might say is that as you make the case for us, allow us to be clear that UN Girls is an unarguable success story. We’re the third quickest rising entity within the UN system of the final decade plus, nearly thrice the dimensions we have been at institution. 

That we now have absorbed and delivered in that context, all whereas hitting and exceeding supply targets and constant constructive exterior audits, is a testomony to our mandate. It speaks to the onerous work and abilities of our fullest management, our companions, our workers and naturally this Govt Board. I might contend that we stay top-of-the-line investments on the town and I ask that you simply carry that message with you wherever it must be heard.

We have now additionally taken to coronary heart your suggestions on price restoration. We stay dedicated to totally implementing the coverage and recovering all direct venture prices in accordance with the coverage.

The tempo of our work is quickening, and I look ahead to our subsequent session collectively. On the First Common Session 2025 we are going to proceed our work on governance and oversight of the Govt Boards, whereas additionally contemplating new agenda objects on organizational tradition and anti-discrimination and threat administration and discussing audit issues and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board assembly.

 Within the run as much as the First Common Session, we may even start discussions and consultations round our subsequent Strategic Plan. I look ahead to partaking with you all on this. We have already got some fairly substantial concepts in regards to the methods through which our subsequent Strategic Plan can construct even additional on what we take into account to be an excellent present Strategic Plan. We anticipate a superb collaboration with you as we search to take action.

I thanks once more in your help and the arrogance you proceed to point out in us. You aren’t solely the place we go for steerage and help, you might be additionally the place we go to be energized- and the place we come to be re energized, as on this Govt Board session. Each mandate within the UN system is essential. However certainly there isn’t a mandate extra central to human rights, to peace, to safety, to improvement and to the Constitution of the United Nations than that of UN Girls. Certainly no mandate asks extra of us simply because it affords probably the most for us. 

And that’s the reason there’s certainly no larger privilege than the one which we, on this room, share: to be known as upon to ship gender equality for girls, for ladies, for males and for boys, to realize the gender equality dividend for us and our kids, to unlock the aspirations of the Beijing Declaration and the 2030 Agenda. Our job is obvious and its urgency obvious. We look ahead to carrying it out with you, collectively.

I thanks.