2017 Executive Committee session
68th session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme (2-6 October 2017)
To view video recordings of the 68th session of the Executive Committee, please click on the links below:
- Shared Solutions: UNHCR’s ExCom 2017 Keynote Video
- Opening statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Filippo Grandi
- Statement by the President of the World Bank, Mr. Jim Yong Kim
- General debate: first part; second part; third part; fourth part; fifth part, sixth part
- Statement by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Mr. Volker Türk
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The Nansen Refugee Award ceremony took place on Monday, 2 October in Geneva. For more information on the ceremony and the 2017 winners, please visit www.unhcr.org/nansen.
1. Opening of the session, adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters
3. Special segment on the comprehensive refugee response framework
5. Consideration of reports on the work of the Standing Committee
- Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1167)
- Statement by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
- Statements on international protection
- Statement by the Deputy High Commissioner
- Report on the work of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1175)
- Report of the sixty-eighth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1166)
- Report of the seventieth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1174)
- 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
- Statement by the Inspector General
- Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1171)
- Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1172)
- Statement by the Head of Evaluation Service
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
- Statement by the Rapporteur of the annual consultations with NGOs
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
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?
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