2018 Executive Committee Session

List of participants (as of 5 October 2018)

Preliminary estimated schedule

Information note for delegations

Organizational note

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

• Draft provisional agenda and annotations

2. Statement by the High Commissioner

• Statement by the High Commissioner

3. General debate

• Final list of speakers for the general debate
• Statements from the general debate
• Chairperson's summary

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

• Note on international protection (A/AC.96/1178)
• 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.96/1186)
• Report of the seventy-first meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1177)
• Report of the seventy-second meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1184)
• Report of the seventy-third meeting of the Standing Committee (A/AC.96/1185)
• Financial statements for the year 2017 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 2017 (A/AC.96/1179)
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2017 and Report of the Board of Auditors (A/73/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the Report of the Board of Auditors for 2017 (A/AC.96/1179/Add.1)
• Internal audit in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018 (A/AC.96/1181)

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

• Report on activities of the Inspector General's Office (A/AC.96/1182)
• Report on evaluation (A/AC.96/1183)

6. Consideration and adoption of the biennial programme budget 2018-2019 (revised)

• Biennial programme budget 2018-2019 (revised) of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1180)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/AC.96/1180/Add.1)

7. Review of the annual consultations with non governmental organizations

• Report on the 2018 annual consultations with non-governmental organizations
• Statement by the Rapporteur of the annual consultations with NGOs

8. Other statements

9. Meetings of the Standing Committee in 2019

10. Consideration of the provisional agenda of the seventieth session of the Executive Committee

11. Election of officers

12. Any other business

13. Adoption of the report of the sixty-ninth session of the Executive Committee

• Report of the sixty-ninth session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme
• Corrigendum to the report of the sixty-ninth 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 the Pacific
• Europe
• Middle East and North Africa
• Global programmes

Side events

• Upholding rights in mixed movements: challenges and responses
• Exhibition launch of RefugiARTE: an illustrated story on the move
• Solving protracted situations in Africa: the global compact on refugees
• Climate change, conflict and displacement: understanding the nexus
• Mobilizing the private sector in refugee-hosting markets
• A solidarity approach for the people of Rakhine State: the way forward
• Contributing to the global compact on refugees: NGO proposals
• Building momentum: mid-point of the #IBelong campaign