2022 Executive Committee session

Information note for delegations

Organizational note on speaking arrangements

Estimated schedule

Provisional list of participants (as of 6 October 2022)

Seating plan

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

• Annotated provisional agenda

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

• High Commissioner's opening statement to the seventy-third 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

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

• Introductory remarks by the Deputy High Commissioner
• Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1222)
• Report on the 83^rd meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1221)
• Financial statements for the year 2021 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 2021 (A/AC.96/1223)
• Statements on international protection
• Presentation by the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2021 and Report of the Board of Auditors (A/77/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the report of the Board of Auditors for 2021 (A/AC.96/1223/Add.1)
• Internal audit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2022 (A/AC.96/1225)

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

• Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1226)
• Presentation by the Inspector General
• Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1227)
• Presentation by the Head, Evaluation Service

6. Consideration and adoption of the programme budget 2023

• Programme budget for 2023 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1224)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) (A/AC.96/1230)

7. Review of the global consultations with non-governmental organizations

8. Other statements

• Presentation by the Chairperson of the Staff Council

9. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2023

• Draft revision of Financial Rules (Revision 12)

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

11. Election of officers

12. Any other business

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

• EoP Holy See
• EoP Hungary

14. Closing of the session

• Closing remarks 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

• Moving forward on the frontlines of the climate emergency: building resilience for displaced persons and vulnerable communities
• Beyond corporate social responsibility: broadening private sector engagement in forced displacement contexts
• Area-based solutions to displacement in Afghanistan
• Asylum Capacity Support Group: promoting partnerships to strengthen national asylum systems
• Peace processes, transitional justice and the rights of refugees: the Colombian experience
• No silver bullet: UNHCR's approach to tackling sexual misconduct
• High-level briefing on the Malabo Humanitarian Summit: outcomes and way forward
• Ukraine situation: collective winter response and challenges
• Organized by NGOS: What's stopping us? Acting on the lessons learned from system-wide shocks