First regular session 2020

11-13 February 2020

Session documents

Opening of the session 
Item 1 
Opening statement by the President of the Executive Board 
Opening statement by the Executive Director of UNICEFEN        
Organizational and procedural matters 
Item 2 
Election of the President and Vice-Presidents of the Executive Board (E/ICEF/2020/2)EN FR ES
Item 3 
Adoption of the provisional annotated agenda, timetable and organization of work (E/ICEF/2020/1/Rev.1)EN FR ES
Item 4 
Working methods 
Joint response of the Executive Board secretariats on the working methods of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFPEN
Guidelines for the field visits of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF and UN-Women, and the joint field visits of the Executive Boards of UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS, UNICEF, UN-Women and WFPEN                                
Programme and policy matters 
Item 5 
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
 
Latin America and Caribbean 
Cuba (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.1)EN FR ES
CEPEN
Paraguay (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.2)EN FR ES
CEPEN
West and Central Africa 
Democratic Republic of the Congo (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.4)EN FR ES
CEPEN
Mali (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.3)EN FR ES
CEPEN
(b) Extensions of ongoing country programmes (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.5)EN FR ES
Item 6 
Oral report on UNICEF follow-up to the recommendations and decisions of the forty-third, forty-fourth and special Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Programme Coordinating Board meetings (UNICEF/2020/EB/2)EN FR ES
Item 7 
Update on UNICEF humanitarian action: a focus on water, sanitation and hygiene in emergencies (UNICEF/2020/EB/3)EN FR ES
Item 8 
Extension of the Vaccine Independence Initiative and its revolving fund (E/ICEF/2020/P/L.6)EN FR ES
Item 9 
Update on the midterm review of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2018–2021 
(Background note)
EN
Evaluation, audit and oversight matters  
Item 10 
Available through the UNICEF Evaluation website:Evaluation
website
Evaluation of innovation in UNICEF work: summary (E/ICEF/2020/3)EN FR ES
Management response to the UNICEF evaluation report: Evaluation of innovation in UNICEF work (E/ICEF/2020/4)EN FR ES
Item 11 
Update on the implementation of the recommendations made in the independent panel review of the UNICEF response to protection from sexual exploitation and abuse; the Morgan Lewis report on sexual harassment investigations conducted by the UNICEF Office of Internal Audit and Investigations; and the report of the Independent Task Force on Workplace Gender-Discrimination, Sexual Harassment, Harassment and Abuse of Authority (PPT)EN
Resource, financial and budgetary matters 
Item 12 
UNICEF financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2018 and report of the Board of Auditors (A/74/5/Add.3)EN FR ES
UNICEF management response to the report of the Board of Auditors (E/ICEF/2020/AB/L.2)EN FR ES
Financial reports and audited financial statements and reports of the Board of Auditors for the period ended 31 December 2018: report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/74/528)EN FR ES
Corrigendum to the financial reports and audited financial statements and reports of the Board of Auditors for the period ended 31 December 2018: report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (A/74/528/Corr.1)EN FR ES
Implementation of the recommendations of the Board of Auditors contained in its reports for the year ended 31 December 2018 on the United Nations funds and programmes: report of the Secretary-General (A/74/323/Add.1)EN FR ES
Item 13 
Private Fundraising and Partnerships: 2020 workplan and proposed budget (E/ICEF/2020/AB/L.1)EN FR ES
Item 14 

Joint preliminary comprehensive proposal on the cost-recovery policy
(DP/FPA-ICEF-UNW/2020/CRP.1)

Addendum

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Item 15 
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

Annex to the information note





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 Other matters and adoption of draft decisions
Item 16
Other matters
Item 17
Adoption of draft decisions
Item 18
Closing statements by the Executive Director of UNICEF and the President of the Executive Board