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Second regular session 2023
5–7 September 2023
Key information |
List of participants (7 September 2023)
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Session documents
| Opening of the session | |
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| Item 1 | |
| Adoption of the provisional annotated agenda, timetable and organization of work (E/ICEF/2023/24/Rev.2) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Item 2 | |
| Opening statement by the President of the Executive Board | EN |
| Opening statement by the Executive Director of UNICEF | EN |
| Organizational and procedural matters | |
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| Item 3 | |
| Proposed programme of work for the Executive Board sessions in 2024 (E/ICEF/2023/25) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Programme and policy matters | |
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| Item 4 | |
| UNICEF programme cooperation | |
(a) Country programme documents Focus of the thematic discussion: Data accelerating process for children | |
| 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 | |
| East Asia and the Pacific | |
| Papua New Guinea (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.18) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Eastern and Southern Africa | |
| Angola (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.19) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Burundi (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.20) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
Lesotho (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.21) Corrigendum (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.21/Corr.1) | |
| CEP | EN |
| Malawi (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.22) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Latin America and Caribbean | |
| Nicaragua (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.23) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| West and Central Africa | |
Benin (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.24) Corrigendum (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.24/Corr.1) | |
| CEP | EN |
| Chad (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.25) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Equatorial Guinea (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.26) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Mauritania (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.27) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Senegal (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.28) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| Togo (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.29) | EN FR ES |
| CEP | EN |
| (b) Extensions of ongoing country programmes (E/ICEF/2023/P/L.30) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Item 5 | |
| Oral update on UNICEF humanitarian action (PPT) | EN |
| Item 6 | |
| Structured dialogue on financing the results of the UNICEF Strategic Plan, 2022–2025 (E/ICEF/2023/26) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Funding compact: Progress against Member State and entity-specific commitments related to UNICEF (UNICEF/2023/EB/13) | EN |
| Evaluation, audit and oversight matters | |
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| Item 7 | |
Revised evaluation policy of UNICEF (E/ICEF/2023/27)
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| Item 8 | |
| Update on the status of implementation of the recommendations in the self-assessment of the independence of the UNICEF Office of Internal Audit and Investigations (E/ICEF/2023/AB/L.7) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Resource, financial and budgetary matters | |
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| Item 9 | |
| UNICEF Strategic Plan, updated financial estimates, 2023–2026 (E/ICEF/2023/AB/L.6) | EN FR ES AR RU ZH |
| Other matters and adoption of draft decisions | |
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| Item 10 | |
Other matters 2024 first regular session: Provisional list of agenda items |
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| Item 11 | |
| Adoption of draft decisions | |
| Item 12 | |
| Closing statements by the Executive Director of UNICEF and the President of the Executive Board |
| Interactive special focus session | |
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| An Africa Fit for Children and Young People: What investments are needed for Africa’s human capital? (website) | EN |
Presentations and statements
(posted as available)
statement
| Opening statement by H.E. Ms. Marie-Louise Koch Wegter, President of the Executive Board | EN |
| Opening statement by Ms. Catherine M. Russell, Executive Director of UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Argentina | ES |
| Statement by Bangladesh | EN |
| Statement by the Czech Republic | EN |
| Statement by Greece | EN |
| Statement by Japan | EN |
| Statement by the European Union | EN |
| Statement by the United States of America | EN |
| Statement by Austria | EN |
| Statement by the Republic of Korea | EN |
| Statement by Côte d'Ivoire | FR |
| Statement by Slovakia | EN |
| Statement by the Syrian Arab Republic | AR |
| Statement by ChildFund Alliance | EN |
| Statement by the NGO Committee on UNICEF (statement not delivered) | EN |
| Statement by the United States of America | EN |
| Presentation by Mr. Mark Hereward, Chief Data Officer, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Papua New Guinea | EN |
| Statement by Angola | EN |
| Statement by Burundi | FR |
| Statement by Lesotho | EN |
| Statement by Nicaragua | ES |
| Statement by Equatorial Guinea | ES |
| Statement by Benin | FR |
| Statement by Togo | FR |
| Statement by the United States of America | EN |
| Intervention by the Chair of the Standing Group of National Committees | EN |
| Presentation by Mr. Robert McCouch, Director, Evaluation Office, UNICEF | EN |
| Statement by Germany on behalf of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Ireland, Japan, the Republic of Moldova, Malta, Montenegro, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Germany | EN |
| Statement by the United States of America | EN |
| Statement by the European Union | EN |
Publications
| Publications | Download |
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| UNICEF Annual Report 2022: For every child, every opportunity | EN FR ES AR |
| The State of the World’s Children 2023: For Every Child, Vaccination | EN FR ES AR |
| Humanitarian Action for Children 2023: Overview | EN |
| Preventing a lost decade: Urgent action to reverse the devastating impact of COVID-19 on children and young people | EN FR ES AR |
| Prospects for children in 2022: A global outlook | EN |
| 2022 annual report of the Office of the Ombudsman for United Nations Funds and Programmes | EN |
| Global Annual Results Reports 2022: Programme results achieved by contributions received from partners | EN |