Summary At its sixtieth session, the Commission on the Status of Women, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 2013/18, considered as its priority theme “Women’s empowerment and the link to sustainable development”. It also considered as its review theme “The elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls”, evaluating progress in the implementation of the agreed conclusions from its fifty-seventh session. Based on its new methods of work, adopted by the Economic and Social Council in resolution 2015/6, the session included a ministerial segment comprised of four ministerial round tables, one interactive dialogue among ministers, consideration of the review theme and a general discussion. As called for in its new meth ods of work, the consideration of the review theme included, for the first time, presentations, on a voluntary basis, by 10 member States from different regions on lessons learned, challenges and best practices, and means for accelerated implementation to eliminate and prevent all forms of violence against women and girls. In addition, 11 Member States presented their efforts on the implementation of the agreed conclusions through short interventions. The Commission also held two interactive expert panel discussions on the priority theme, one of which focused on key strategies for gender responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the other on participation and partnerships for gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda. An expert panel discussion held in conjunction with the review theme reflected on ways to support and achieve accelerated implementation, including through addressing data gaps and challenges in the enhanced collection, reporting, use and analysis of data with regard to the elimination and prevention of all forms of violence against women and girls. The Commission did not discuss emerging issues, trends, focus areas and new approaches to questions affecting the situation of women, including equality between women and men. The Commission adopted agreed conclusions on the priority theme. They included references to existing commitments and areas and issues, as well as actors, of importance in the gender-responsive implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Commission urges all stakeholders to take action in the following five areas: (a) Strengthening normative, legal and policy frameworks; (b) Fostering enabling environments for financing gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls; (c) Strengthening women’s leadership and women’s full and participation in decision-making in all areas of sustainable development; equal (d) Strengthening gender-responsive data collection, follow-up and review processes; (e) 16-05842 Enhancing national institutional arrangements. 3/62