2019 Executive Committee Session

Provisional list of participants (as of 7 October 2019)

Preliminary estimated schedule

Information note for delegations

Organizational note

Order of business for the opening

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

• Provisional agenda and annotations

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

• Opening statement by the High Commissioner
• Remarks by the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations

3. High-level segment on statelessness and general debate

• High-level Segment on Statelessness (#IBelong)
• Deputy Secretary-General's remarks at Treaty Ceremony Conventions on Statelessness [as prepared for delivery]
• Final list of speakers for the general debate
• Statements from the general debate

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

• Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1189)
• Statements on international protection
• Statement by the Deputy High Commissioner
• Report of the seventy-fourth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1188)
• Report of the seventy-fifth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1195)
• Financial statements for the year 2018 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 2018 (A/AC.96/1190)
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018 and Report of the Board of Auditors (A/74/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the Report of the Board of Auditors for 2018 (A/AC.96/1190/Add.1)
• Internal audit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 (A/AC.96/1192)

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

• Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1193)
• Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1194)

6. Consideration and adoption of the biennial programme budget 2020-2021

• Biennial programme budget 2020-2021 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1191)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/AC.96/1191/Add.1)

7. Review of the annual consultations with non governmental organizations

• Report on the 2019 annual consultations with non-governmental organizations

8. Other statements

9. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2020

10. Consideration of the provisional agenda of the seventy-first session of the Executive Committee

11. Election of officers

12. Any other business

13. Adoption of the report of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee

• Report of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme
• Draft report of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme

14. Closing of the session

• Closing statement by the High Commissioner

Regional updates

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

Side events

• HLS: civil society perspectives and contributions
• Predictable and decisive engagement on internal displacement
• Supporting solutions in the Central African Republic
• Climate change and disaster displacement: Africa and beyond
• Venezuelan population flows: national and regional response
• The future of work: putting people first in a digital world
• Creating working cultures free from sexual misconduct
• Durable solutions through (re)integration: what it takes