2020 Executive Committee Session

Preliminary estimated schedule

Information note for delegations

Pre-recorded statements guidelines

Organizational note for the session

Health instructions

Seating plan

List of participants

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

• Provisional agenda and annotations

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

• High Commissioner's opening statement to the seventy-first session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme

3. General debate

• Final list of speakers for the general debate
• Statements from the general debate
• Summary by the Chairperson

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

• Introductory remarks by the Deputy High Commissioner
• Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1200)
• Report on the work of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1208)
• Statements on international protection
• Statement by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
• Report of the seventy-seventh meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1199)
• Report of the seventy-ninth meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1207)
• Financial statements for the year 2019 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 2019 (A/AC.96/1201)
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019 and Report of the Board of Auditors (A/75/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the Report of the Board of Auditors for 2019 (A/AC.96/1201/Add.1)
• Internal audit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020 (A/AC.96/1203)

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

• Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1204)
• Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1205)

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

• Biennal programme budget 2020-2021 (revised) of the Office of the high Commissioner for refugees (A/AC.96/1202)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/AC.96/1202/Add.1)

7. Review of the annual consultations with non governmental organizations

8. Other statements

9. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2021

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

11. Election of officers

12. Any other business

13. Adoption of the report of the seventy-first session of the Executive Committee

• Report of the seventy-first session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme (A/AC.96/1209)

14. Closing of the session

• Closing statement by the High Commissioner

Regional updates

• The Americas
• Asia and Pacific
• East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes
• Europe
• Middle East and North Africa
• Southern Africa
• West and Central Africa
• Global programmes

Side events and other events

• Food security for refugees: immediate needs and long-term opportunities
• Action-oriented Approaches to Solutions for Internally Displaced People
• Resilient communities in climate-induced displacement
• Nansen Refugee Award ceremony 2020

Summary records

• 728^th meeting
• 729^th meeting
• 730^th meeting
• 731^st meeting
• 732^nd meeting
• 733^rd meeting
• 734^th meeting
• 735^th meeting