Draft Provisional Agenda

REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Seventieth Session SEA/RC70/1 Rev. 1
Maldives
6–10 September 2017 19 June 2017
Draft Provisional Agenda
1. Opening of the Session
2. Credentials of Representatives
3. Election of Office-bearers
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 2016–31 December 2016
5.2 Address by the Director-General
6. Ministerial Roundtable
6.1 Building health systems resilience to climate change
7. Programme Budget matters:
7.1 Programme Budget 2016–2017: Implementation and mid-term review
7.2 Programme Budget 2018–2019
7.3 Transparency, accountability, monitoring and evaluation
8. Policy and technical matters:
8.1 Hepatitis
8.2 TB: “Bending the Curve”
8.3 Access to medicines
8.4 Vector control
8.5 Road safety
8.6 SDGs and progress towards universal health coverage:
i. Strengthening PHC and health workforce
ii. Annual progress monitoring of UHC and SDGs
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9. Progress reports on selected Regional Committee resolutions
9.1 Expanding the scope of the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund
(SEARHEF) (SEA/RC69/R6)
9.2 Challenges in polio eradication (SEA/RC60/R8)
9.3 Measles elimination and rubella/congenital rubella syndrome control
(SEA/RC66/R5)
9.4 Antimicrobial resistance (SEA/RC68/R3)
9.5 Patient safety contributing to sustainable universal health coverage (SEA/RC68/R4)
9.6 South-East Asia Regional Action Plan to Implement Global Strategy to Reduce
Harmful Use of Alcohol (2014–2025) (SEA/RC67/R4)
9.7 Capacity-building of Member States in global health (SEA/RC63/R6)
9.8 Consultative Expert Working Group on Research and Development (CEWG):
Financing and Coordination (SEA/RC65/R3)
10. Governing Body matters
10.1 Key issues arising out of the Seventieth World Health Assembly and the 140th and
141st Sessions of the WHO Executive Board
10.2 Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the 142nd Session of the WHO
Executive Board
10.3 Elective posts for Governing Body meetings (WHA, EB and PBAC )
11. Management and Governance matters
11.1 Status of 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 2017
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 2017 and
nomination of a member in place of Indonesia whose term expires on
31 December 2017
13 Time and place of future Sessions of the Regional Committee
14 Adoption of resolutions
15 Adoption of the Report of the Seventieth Session of the Regional Committee
16 Closing session