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Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review

Analytical Review

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Women picking tea on a plantation in Sri Lanka. 
© UN Women/Melinda Nagy

As part of the Beijing+30 review, member States were invited to undertake comprehensive national-level reviews that took stock of achievements, identified gaps and setbacks, and outlined strategies for addressing those gaps and challenges at the national level. Member States were expected to respond to a survey and submit national reports by 1 June 2024. The national reports informed the regional reports on the Beijing+30 review. Please use the links above to read the national reports and view country profiles.

The analytical track of the regional review process examined progress, gaps, and challenges, and identified good practices towards achieving the commitments made in the BPfA in the Asia-Pacific region. The analytical review provided the substantive background to consultations and deliberations at the conference. Specifically, two parliamentary papers were prepared in advance of the conference. The first parliamentary paper reviewed the state of gender equality and the empowerment of women in Asia and the Pacific, drawing on official data and statistics, and States Parties’ reports submitted to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Universal Periodic Review under the Human Rights Council, and Voluntary National Reviews under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The second parliamentary paper was based on the analysis of survey findings collected through the comprehensive national-level reviews.

Furthermore, a regional synthesis report was prepared to more comprehensively take stock of priority issues, progress, gaps, and challenges, as well as recommendations for priority actions. Along with the national reports, the regional synthesis report will feed into a global synthesis report that UN Women will submit to the sixty-ninth session of the Commission on the Status of Women to be held in March 2025.

Stakeholder Consultations

The engagement of and consultation with stakeholders was a vital part of the regional review process and the intergovernmental conference. A steering committee was established to coordinate the consultation with civil society organizations comprising women’s organizations, academia, and other key stakeholders in the regional review process. Meanwhile, Governments were encouraged to complement the whole-of-government approach for comprehensive national-level reviews with a whole-of-society approach that involved multi-stakeholder participation and contributions.

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Young individuals presenting gender-responsive reforms during
the CSW68 Youth Forum in New York on 16 March 2024.
© UN Women/Ryan Brown

ESCAP and UN Women facilitated the participation of key stakeholders in the official agenda of the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on the Beijing+30 Review, inter alia, through: (a) participation as expert roundtable panelists, and (b) enabling oral interventions in line with the rules of procedure of the Commission. For the intergovernmental conference, joint statements by CSO stakeholders were encouraged. Stakeholders were also invited to organize side events, including in collaboration with ESCAP member States, United Nations entities, and others.

 

 

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