UN Women is making available information on the preparations for the review of progress made in the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Beijing Platform for Action which will culminate in a summit or high-level commitment meeting in New York in September 2015.

The process has already begun with a request being sent from UN Women to Governments to prepare a national review. This should already be completed, or at least underway. Governments have been asked to involve civil society organizations in the review. As a first step, if you have not already done so, please contact your government and ask the status of the report and how civil society is to be included.

This is urgent as the national reviews will feed into the Conferences to be organized by the five UN regions at the end of the year, as well as into the review at the global level. For further information see the UN Women Beijing Brief and the BejingPlus20 Guidance note.

UN Women would like to see civil society inputs in the national and regional reviews. However, they understand that civil society may not always have the opportunity to provide inputs at the national levle. In such cases, if civil society is preparing its own inputs, they ask that these be shared with national stakeholders and governments and also with UN Women so that they can be taken into account in the preparation of their reports.