Annual session 2022

14–17 June 2022

Documentation

Session documents 

Presentations and statements (posted as available)

Decisions - EN FR ES

Report of session - EN FR ES 
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Publications

Key information 

Information note

List of participants (7 September 2022)

 


 

 

Session documents

Opening of the session 
Item 1 
Adoption of the provisional annotated agenda, timetable and
organization of work (E/ICEF/2022/9/Rev.1)
EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Item 2 
Opening statement by the President of the Executive Board (as delivered)EN ES
Opening statement by the Executive Director of UNICEFEN
Programme and policy matters 
Item 3 
Annual report for 2021 of the Executive Director of UNICEF (E/ICEF/2022/10)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Update of the Integrated Results and Resources Framework of the
UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025 (E/ICEF/2022/11)
EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
UNICEF report on the recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit 
(E/ICEF/2022/12)
EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Report on the implementation of the integrated results and resources
framework of the Strategic Plan, 2018–2021 (UNICEF/2022/EB/8)
EN
Report on the implementation of the quadrennial comprehensive policy
review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system 
(UNICEF/2022/EB/9)
EN
Working together to support implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development: Joint annex on the common chapter of the strategic plans,
2018–2021 of UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF and UN-Women

Annexes
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Data companion and scorecard to the annual report for 2021 of the
Executive Director of UNICEF 
EN
Item 4 
UNICEF humanitarian action 
(a) Annual report on UNICEF humanitarian action (E/ICEF/2022/13)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
(b) Update on the progress achieved through the COVID-19 Vaccine
Delivery Partnership
EN
Item 5 
Annual report on the implementation of the UNICEF Gender Action Plan,
2018–2021 (E/ICEF/2022/14)
EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Data companion and scorecard to the UNICEF Gender Action Plan, 2018–2021EN
Item 6 
UNICEF programme cooperation 
(a) Country programme documents 
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 and/or from the respective country pages:
https://unsdg.un.org/un-in-action/country-level?tab=countries-listing
 
Eastern and Southern Africa 
Kenya (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.16)EN FR ES
CEPEN
United Republic of Tanzania (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.17)EN FR ES
CEPEN
Middle East and North Africa 
Syrian Arab Republic (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.18)EN FR ES
AR
CEPEN
(b) Extensions of ongoing country programmes (E/ICEF/2022/P/L.19)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Evaluation, audit and oversight matters 
Item 7 
Annual report for 2021 on the evaluation function in UNICEF (E/ICEF/2022/17)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Management response to the annual report for 2021 on the evaluation function in UNICEF (E/ICEF/2022/18)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Evaluation of the UNICEF role as cluster lead/co-lead agency (E/ICEF/2022/19)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Management response to the evaluation of the UNICEF role as cluster lead/co-lead agency (E/ICEF/2022/20)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Full report available through the UNICEF Evaluation website:Evaluation
website
Item 8 
Report of the Ethics Office of UNICEF for 2021 (E/ICEF/2022/15)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Management response to the report of the Ethics Office of UNICEF for 2021 (E/ICEF/2022/16)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Item 9 
UNICEF Office of Internal Audit and Investigations 2021 annual report to the Executive Board (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.5)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Investigations cases closed during 2021: Addendum to the UNICEF Office of Internal Audit and Investigations 2021 annual report to the Executive Board (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.5/Add.1)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Management response to the UNICEF Office of Internal Audit and Investigations 2021 annual report to the Executive Board (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.6)EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
UNICEF Audit Advisory Committee 2021 annual report to the Executive BoardEN ​​​
Resource, financial and budgetary matters 
Item 10 
Update on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 72/279 on
the repositioning of the United Nations development system in the context
of the quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for
development of the United Nations system (Information note)
EN      
Item 11 
Private Fundraising and Partnerships: financial report for the year ended
31 December 2021 (E/ICEF/2022/AB/L.4)
EN FR ES
AR RU ZH
Item 12 
Update on the World Bank instrument to facilitate sustained investment in
private sector fundraising (UNICEF/2022/EB/10)
EN FR ES
Other matters and adoption of draft decisions 
Item 13 
Address by the Chairperson of the UNICEF Global Staff AssociationEN
Item 14 

Other matters 

2022 second regular session: Provisional list of agenda items

 

EN         

Item 15 
Adoption of draft decisions 
Item 16 
UNICEF Staff Team Awards and closing statements by the Executive Director of UNICEF
and the President of the Executive Board
 

Presentations and statements

(posted as available)

statement

Opening statement by H.E. Mr. Rodrigo A. Carazo, President of the Executive BoardEN ES
Opening statement by Ms. Catherine M. Russell, Executive Director of UNICEFEN

Presentation by Ms. Vidhya Ganesh, Director, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEFEN
Statement by Denmark on behalf of Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Lebanon, Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and DenmarkEN
Statement by Liberia on behalf of the African Members of the Executive BoardEN
Statement by the Republic of Korea on behalf of Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, the Republic of Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the United States of America, Uruguay, the European Union and the Republic of KoreaEN
Statement by Norway on behalf of Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and NorwayEN
Statement by BelgiumEN
Statement by SwedenEN
Statement by ItalyEN
Statement by ArgentinaES
Statement by GermanyEN
Statement by AlgeriaEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN
Statement by the Republic of KoreaEN
Statement by the Russian FederationRU
Statement by CubaES
Statement by EstoniaEN
Statement by ChinaZH
Statement by FranceFR
Statement by Côte d'IvoireFR
Statement by the European UnionEN
Statement by JapanEN
Statement by MexicoES
Statement by CanadaEN
Statement by the Chair of the Standing Group of National CommitteesEN
Statement by Plan InternationalEN
Statement by World VisionEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

(a) Annual report on UNICEF humanitarian action 
Presentation by Mr. Manuel Fontaine, Director, Office of Emergency Programmes, UNICEFEN
Statement by AlgeriaEN
Statement by EthiopiaEN
Statement by SwedenEN
Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain on behalf of Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom of Great BritainEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN
Statement by the European UnionEN
Statement by the ChildFund AllianceEN
Statement by EstoniaEN
(b) Update on the progress achieved through the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership 
Presentation by Mr. Ted Chaiban, Global Lead Coordinator for COVID-19 Vaccine DeliveryEN
Intervention by CanadaEN FR

Presentation by Ms. Lauren Rumble, Associate Director, Gender Equality, UNICEFEN
Statement by Denmark on behalf of Canada, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Australia, Austria, Germany, New Zealand, Ireland, Switzerland, Monaco, the Kingdom of Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and DenmarkEN
Statement by MexicoES
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

Presentation by Mr. Robert Jenkins, Global Director of Education and Adolescent DevelopmentEN
Statement by the Syrian Arab RepublicAR
Statement by FranceFR
Statement by the United States of America on behalf of Belgium, Germany, and the United States of AmericaEN

Annual report for 2021 on the evaluation function in UNICEF 
Presentation by Mr. Robert McCouch, Director of Evaluation, UNICEFEN
Evaluation of the UNICEF role as cluster lead/co-lead agency (CLARE II) 
Presentation by Mr. Robert McCouch, Director of Evaluation, UNICEFEN
Presentation by Mr. Manuel Fontaine, Director, Office of Emergency Programmes, UNICEFEN
Statement by the United Kingdom of Great Britain on behalf of Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Iceland, Ireland, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom of Great BritainEN
Statement by Sweden EN
Statement by the European Union EN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

Presentation by Mr. El Cid Butuyan, Director, Ethics Office, UNICEFEN
Statement by Germany on behalf of Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the European  Union, and GermanyEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

Presentation by Mr. Stephen Zimmerman, Director, Office of Internal Audit and Investigations, UNICEFEN
Statement by Sweden on behalf of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Monaco, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of Korea, Republic of Moldova, Switzerland, Türkiye, the Kingdom of Netherlands, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and SwedenEN
Statement by FinlandEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

Presentation by Ms. June Kunugi, Director, Public Partnerships Division, UNICEFEN
Statement by Poland on behalf Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mexico, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and PolandEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN

Presentation by Ms. Carla Haddad-Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising & Partnerships Division, UNICEFEN
Statement by Switzerland on behalf of Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Republic of Moldova, Monaco, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovakia, Sweden, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and SwitzerlandEN
Statement by the United States of AmericaEN
Intervention by the Chair of the Standing Group of National CommitteesEN

Presentation by Ms. Carla Haddad-Mardini, Director, Private Fundraising and Partnerships Division, UNICEFEN

Statement by Mr. Noma Owens-Ibie, Chairperson, UNICEF Global Staff AssociationEN
Statement by Denmark on behalf of the BureauEN

2022 second regular session: Provisional list of agenda itemsEN

Publications

PublicationsDownload
UNICEF Annual Report 2021: 
Protecting child rights in a time of crises (website)
EN FR ES
AR
The State of the World’s Children 2021:
On My Mind: Promoting, protecting and caring for children’s mental health (website)
EN 
Executive summaryEN FR ES
Preventing a lost decade: Urgent action to reverse the devastating impact of COVID-19 on children and young peopleEN FR ES
AR
Humanitarian Action for Children 2022: OverviewEN
UNICEF Innocenti Annual Report 2021: Turning research into action for children and young peopleEN
2021 annual report of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and ProgrammesEN FR ES
Child alert: Severe wasting (website)EN
WHO/UNICEF Global report on assistive technology (website)EN