Day 1 of 2: The Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation was jointly convened by ESCAP and UN Women Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, in collaboration with ITU, UNDP, UNFPA, and UNICEF.

The objective of the regional consultation was to provide an interactive forum for ESCAP member States and key stakeholders in Asia and the Pacific to examine ways to accelerate progress on key frameworks including the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (in particular the 2019 Asia-Pacific Declaration on Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: Beijing+25 Review) and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

The consultation provided an opportunity for both state and non-state actors to take stock of key trends, needs, gaps in policy responses, and good practices as well as to consider possible areas for joint interventions (policy, programmatic) to address innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls.

The outcome of the Asia-Pacific regional consultation for CSW67 was a set of recommendations on areas for accelerated action, in line with the Priority Theme for CSW67. The recommendations fed into the CSW67 and could inform membership contributions to the Agreed Conclusions.