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First regular session 2022
8–11 February 2022
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Information for participants List of participants (7 September 2022) UN Web TV - video on-demand |
Session documents
| Opening of the session | |
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Adoption of the provisional annotated agenda, timetable and organization of work |
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| Item 2 | |
| Opening statement by the President of the Executive Board | EN ES |
| Opening statement by the Executive Director of UNICEF | EN |
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Organizational and procedural matters |
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| Item 3 | |
| Election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Executive Board (E/ICEF/2022/2) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
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Programme and policy matters |
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| Item 4 | |
| UNICEF programme cooperation | |
| (a) Country programme documents | |
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (in final or draft form) are available on the UNSDG website, and are accessible from Executive Board session documents page: https://unsdg.un.org/resources/executive-board-documents-sessions or from the respective country pages: https://unsdg.un.org/un-in-action/country-level?tab=countries-listing |
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| East Asia and the Pacific | |
| Malaysia (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.1) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
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Thailand (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.2) |
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| CEP | EN |
| Viet Nam (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.3) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Eastern and Southern Africa | |
| Mozambique (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.4) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Europe and Central Asia | |
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Greece (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.5) |
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| CEP | EN |
| Latin America and Caribbean | |
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Belize (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.6) |
EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
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Eastern Caribbean Area multi-country programme document (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.7) |
EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| El Salvador (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.8) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Guyana and Suriname (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.9) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Honduras (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.10) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Jamaica (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.11) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Peru (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.12) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| South Asia | |
| Maldives (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.13) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| West and Central Africa | |
| Guinea-Bissau (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.14) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| (b) Extensions of ongoing country programmes (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.15) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Item 5 | |
| Oral report on UNICEF follow-up to the recommendations and decisions of the forty-seventh and forty-eighth meetings and two special sessions of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board (UNICEF/2022/EB/2) |
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| Item 6 | |
| (a) Update on UNICEF humanitarian action (UNICEF/2022/EB/3) | EN FR ES |
| (b) Establishment of an Assistant Secretary-General position in UNICEF to head the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Inter-Agency Coordination Structure (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.3) |
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Evaluation, audit and oversight matters |
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| Item 7 | |
| Joint evaluability assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All: Summary (E/ICEF/2022/4) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Full report available through the UNICEF Evaluation website: | Evaluation website |
| Management response to evaluation report – Joint evaluability assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (E/ICEF/2022/5) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Item 8 | |
| Plan for global evaluations, 2022–2025 (E/ICEF/2022/3) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Item 9 | |
| Update on the implementation of the recommendations made in the independent panel review of the UNICEF response to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse and the report of the Independent Task Force on Workplace Gender-Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Harassment and Abuse of Authority (E/ICEF/2022/6) End-of-year management letter |
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Resource, financial and budgetary matters |
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| Item 10 | |
| UNICEF financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 and report of the Board of Auditors (A/76/5/Add.3) |
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| UNICEF management response to the report of the Board of Auditors (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.2) |
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| Implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors contained in its reports on the United Nations funds and programmes for the year ended 31 December 2020 – Report of the Secretary-General (A/76/307/Add.1) |
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| Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors for the period ended 31 December 2020 – Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/76/554) |
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| Item 11 | |
| Private Fundraising and Partnerships: 2022 workplan and proposed budget (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.1) |
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Update on the strategic approach to alternative/innovative finance |
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Update on the World Bank instrument to facilitate sustained investment in |
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Other matters and adoption of draft decisions |
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| Item 12 | |
| Report of the visit to UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, by members of the UNICEF Executive Board, 9–11 November 2021 (UNICEF/2022/EB/4) |
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| Item 13 | |
| Other matters 2022 annual session: Provisional list of agenda items |
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| Item 14 | |
| Adoption of draft decisions | |
| Item 15 | |
| Closing statements by the Executive Director of UNICEF and the President of the Executive Board |
Presentations and statements
(posted as available)
Item 2. Opening of the session
Item 2. Opening of the session
| Opening statement by H.E. Mr. Rodrigo A. Carazo, President of the Executive Board | EN ES |
| Opening statement by Ms. Catherine M. Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Ethiopia on behalf of the African Members of the UNICEF Executive Board | EN |
| Statement by Denmark on behalf of the Western European and other countries group | EN |
| Statement by Lebanon | EN |
| Statement by Japan on behalf of Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Lebanon, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Japan | EN |
| Statement by Switzerland on behalf of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Peru, Portugal, Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America and Switzerland | EN |
| Statement by Bangladesh | EN |
| Statement by Rwanda | EN |
| Statement by Monaco | FR |
| Statement by Côte d'Ivoire | FR |
| Statement by Cuba | ES |
| Statement by Argentina | ES |
| Statement by China | ZH |
| Statement by Paraguay | EN |
| Statement by the Republic of Korea | EN |
| Statement by Italy | EN |
| Statement by Guyana | EN |
| Statement by Bulgaria | EN |
| Statement by Hungary | EN |
| Statement by Zimbabwe | EN |
| Statement by Japan | EN |
| Statement by Algeria | EN |
| Statement by Turkey | EN |
| Statement by the European Union | EN |
| Statement by Yemen | AR |
| Statement by Iran | EN |
| Statement by Burundi | FR |
| Intervention by the Standing Group of National Committees | EN |
| Statement by Myanmar | EN |
| Statement by Save the Children | EN |
| Statement by the NGO Committee on UNICEF | EN |
Item 4. UNICEF programme cooperation
Item 4. UNICEF programme cooperation
| Presentation by Ms. Natalia Winder Rossi, Director, Social Policy and Social Protection, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Dr. Rashed Mustafa Sarwar, UNICEF Representative to Malaysia | EN |
| Statement by Mr. Adam Navee Mohamed, Republic of Maldives | EN |
| Statement by Dr. Wayne Henry, Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica | EN |
| Statement by Ms. Alice Shackelford, UN Resident Coordinator to Honduras | EN |
| Statement by Hon. Maria da Conceição da Silva Évora, Minister of Women, Family and Social Solidarity of Guinea-Bissau | EN FR |
| Statement by Hon. Dr. Nyeleti Brooke Mondlane, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Action of Mozambique | EN |
| Statement by the Hon. Eamon Courtenay, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration of Belize | EN |
| Remarks by the Hon. Jhakeline Katy Ugarte Mamami, Minister of Women and Vulnerable Populations of Peru | EN |
| Statement by the Hon. Dr. Domna Michailidou, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Greece | EN |
| Statement by Ms. Alexandra Posada Samour, Project and Cooperation Manager for the Office of the First Lady of El Salvador | EN |
| Statement by Mr. Somchai Jitsuchon, TDRI, Thailand | EN |
| Statement by Mr. Dang Hoa Nam, Director General of Department of Children’s Affairs, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Viet Nam | EN |
| Statement by Guyana | EN |
| Statement by Greece | EN |
| Statement by Grenada on behalf of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada | EN |
| Statement by Malaysia | EN |
Item 5. Oral report on UNICEF follow-up to the recommendations and decisions of the forty-seventh and forty-eighth meetings and two special sessions of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board
Item 5. Oral report on UNICEF follow-up to the recommendations and decisions of the forty-seventh and forty-eighth meetings and two special sessions of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board
| Presentation by Dr. Chewe Luo, Associate Director, HIV/AIDS, Programme Group, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Zimbabwe | EN |
| Statement by Estonia on behalf of Austria, Japan, Australia, Norway, Portugal, Canada, Luxembourg, Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, Belgium, France, Finland, United States of America, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Monaco and Estonia | EN |
| Statement by UNAIDS | EN |
Item 6. (a) Update on UNICEF humanitarian action
Item 6. (a) Update on UNICEF humanitarian action
| Presentation by Mr. Manuel Fontaine, Director, Office of Emergency Programmes, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on behalf of Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Greece, Japan, Norway, Iceland, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Italy, Austria, Portugal, Canada, France, Greece, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America, and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | EN |
| Statement by Ethiopia | EN |
| Statement by ChildFund Alliance | EN |
Item 6. (b) Establishment of an Assistant Secretary-General position in UNICEF to head the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Inter-Agency Coordination Structure
Item 6. (b) Establishment of an Assistant Secretary-General position in UNICEF to head the Global COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Inter-Agency Coordination Structure
| Presentation by Mr. Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Associate Director, Health-Immunization, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Norway on behalf of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of Netherlands, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Montenegro, New Zealand, Poland, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Yemen and Norway | EN |
Item 7. Joint evaluability assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All and management response
Item 7. Joint evaluability assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All and management response
Item 8. Plan for global evaluations, 2022–2025
Item 8. Plan for global evaluations, 2022–2025
| Presentation by Mr. Robert McCouch, Director of Evaluation, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Germany on behalf of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America and Germany | EN |
| Statement by the European Union | EN |
Item 9. Update on the implementation of the recommendations made in the independent panel review of the UNICEF response to the PSEA-ITF report on Workplace Gender-Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Harassment and Abuse of Authority
Item 9. Update on the implementation of the recommendations made in the independent panel review of the UNICEF response to the PSEA-ITF report on Workplace Gender-Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Harassment and Abuse of Authority
| Presentation by Mr. Miles Hastie, Senior Adviser, Child Safeguarding, UNICEF and Ms. Geeta Narayan, Principal Adviser, Organizational Culture, UNICEF |
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Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on behalf Australia, Austria, Argentina, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, the European Union as a donor, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America, Uruguay, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Short version Long version |
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Item 10. UNICEF financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 and report of the Board of Auditors, and management response
Item 10. UNICEF financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2020 and report of the Board of Auditors, and management response
Item 11. Private Fundraising and Partnerships: 2022 workplan and proposed budget
Item 11. Private Fundraising and Partnerships: 2022 workplan and proposed budget
| Presentation by Ms. Carla Haddad Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Switzerland on behalf of Belgium, Canada, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Switzerland | EN |
| Intervention by the Standing Group of National Committees | EN |
Item 14. Adoption of draft decisions
Item 14. Adoption of draft decisions
| Statement by Germany on behalf of the Western European and other countries group | EN |
Publications
| Publications | Download |
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| The State of the World’s Children 2021: On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health (website) |
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| Executive summary | EN FR ES |
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Preventing a lost decade: Urgent action to reverse the devastating impact of COVID-19 on children and young people |
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Digital Learning for Every Child: Closing the gaps for an inclusive and prosperous future |
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Humanitarian Action for Children 2022 : Overview |
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