Rev 1 Draft Provisional Agenda

REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Seventy-first Session SEA/RC71/1 Rev 1
New Delhi, India
3–7 September 2018 25 June 2018
Draft Provisional Agenda
Agenda item
1. Opening of the Session
2. Credentials of Representatives
3. Election of Officebearers
4. Adoption of the Agenda
5. Key addresses and report on the Work of WHO
5.1 Introduction to the Regional Director’s Annual Report on the Work of WHO in
the South-East Asia Region covering the period 1 January 2017–31 December
2017
5.2 Address by the Director-General
6. Ministerial Roundtable
6.1 Improving access to essential medicines in the Region and beyond
7. Programme Budget matters
7.1 Programme Budget Performance Assessment: 2016–2017
7.2 Programme Budget 2018–2019: Implementation
7.3 Proposed Programme Budget 2020–2021
7.4 Evaluation
8. Policy and technical matters
8.1 Malaria: From declaration to action, and intensifying dengue vector control
8.2 The Decade for Health Workforce Strengthening in the SEA Region 2015–2024:
Second review of progress, challenges, capacities and opportunities
8.3 Regional progress in survival of newborns, children and mothers: Moving towards
Global Strategy targets
8.4 Strengthening SEA Region EMTs for health emergency response
8.5 Annual report on monitoring progress on UHC and health-related SDGs
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9. Progress reports on selected Regional Committee resolutions
9.1 Covering every birth and death: improving civil registration and vital statistics
(SEA/RC67/R2)
9.2 Promoting physical activity in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC69/R4)
9.3 Expanding the scope of the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund
(SEARHEF) (SEA/RC69/R6)
9.4 2012: Year of intensification of routine immunization in the South-East
Asia Region: Framework for increasing and sustaining coverage (SEA/RC64/R3)
10. Governing Body matters
10.1 Nomination of the Regional Director
10.2 Key issues arising out of the Seventy-first World Health Assembly and the 142nd
and 143rd sessions of the WHO Executive Board
10.3 Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the 144th session of the WHO
Executive Board
10.4 Elective posts for Governing Body meetings (WHA, EB and PBAC)
11. Management and Governance matters
11.1 Management performance and Reform in the South-East Asia Region
11.2 Status of the SEA Regional Office Building
12. Special programmes
12.1 UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training
in Tropical Diseases: Joint Coordinating Board (JCB) – Report on attendance at
JCB in 2018 and nomination of a Member in place of Maldives whose term
expires on 31 December 2018
12.2 UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research,
Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP): Policy and
Coordination Committee (PCC) – Report on attendance at PCC in 2018 and
nomination of a Member in place of Myanmar whose term expires on
31 December 2018
13 Time and place of future Sessions of the Regional Committee
14 Adoption of resolutions
15 Adoption of the report of the Seventy-first Session of the Regional Committee
16 Closing session