2017 Executive Committee session

List of participants (as of 28 September 2017)

Preliminary estimated schedule

Information note for delegations

Organizational note

1. Opening of the session, adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

• Provisional agenda and annotations

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

3. Special segment on the comprehensive refugee response framework

• Information note on the special segment

4. General debate

• List of speakers for the general debate (as of 29 September 2017)
• Statements from the general debate

5. Consideration of reports on the work of the Standing Committee

• Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1167)
• Statements on international protection
• Report of the sixty-eighth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1166)
• Financial statements for the year 2016 as contained in the Report of the Board of Auditors to the General Assembly on the financial report and audited financial statements of the voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the year ended 31 December 2016 (A/AC.96/1168)
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016 (Report of the Board of Auditors) (A/72/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the Report of the Board of Auditors for 2016 (A/AC.96/1168/Add.1)
• Internal audit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 (A/AC.96/1170)
• Follow-up to the recommendations of the Board of Auditors in its reports on 2015 and previous years financial statements
• Follow-up to the recommendations of the Board of Auditors in its reports on UNHCR's 2016 financial statements

6. Consideration of reports relating to programme and administrative oversight and evaluation

• Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1171)
• Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1172)

7. Consideration and adoption of the biennial programme budget 2018-2019

• Biennial programme budget 2018-2019 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1169)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/AC.96/1169/Add.1)

8. Review of the annual consultations with non-governmental organizations

• Report on the 2017 annual consultations with non-governmental organizations

9. Other statements

10. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2018

11. Consideration of the provisional agenda of the sixty-ninth session of the Executive Committee

12. Election of officers

13. Any other business

14. Adoption of the report of the sixty-eighth session of the Executive Committee

15. Closing of the session

Regional updates

• Africa
• The Americas
• Asia and the Pacific
• Europe
• Middle East and North Africa
• Global programmes

Side events

• In the footsteps of a refugee – protection and innovative cash technologies
• South Sudan: Striving to meet the needs of displaced populations
• Briefing on the Myanmar refugee emergency response in Bangladesh
• Challenges and responses along the central Mediterranean route
• Addressing disaster displacement and climate change: Opportunities in partnership
• A new partnership at work: UNHCR and the World Bank Group
• Refugee emergencies: Are we ready to respond?
• Rethinking the refugee response in Kenya
• 1967 Protocol at fifty: Protection and solutions in a new era?