Draft RC Daily 68 Programme

WHO REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
PROVISIONAL DAILY TIME-TABLE
Sixty-eighth Session, EMRO, Cairo, 11-14 October 2021
Monday, 11 October 2021 – PRE REGIONAL COMMITTEE TECHNICAL MEETINGS
10.00-10.55 Pre-RC Technical Meeting
Global Strategy on Digital health (GSDH) 2020‒2024: a framework for action in
the Eastern Mediterranean Region
11.00-11.55 Pre-RC Technical Meeting
Strategy to promote the health of refugees and migrants in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region
12.00-13.00 Introduction to Market Place
13.00-14.00 Break
INNAUGURAL SESSION
14.00-14.55 Opening Ceremony of the Sixty-eighth Session of the Regional Committee
• Recital from the Holy Quran
• Address by the Chairman of the Sixty-seventh Session of the
Regional Committee
• Address by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO Regional Director for the
Eastern Mediterranean
• Address by Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-
General
• High level segment for Inaugural (TBC)
15.00-16.00 Closed Meeting:
Twelfth Meeting of the Programme Subcommittee for the WHO Regional
Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean
Tuesday, 12 October 2021 – REGULAR SESSIONS OF RC68
09.00-09.10 (a) Election of officers
• Chair
• 2 Vice-Chairs
(b) Adoption of the provisional agenda and provisional daily time-table
(c) Decision on: Establishment of the Drafting Committee
09.10-10.55 • Annual Report of the Regional Director for the year
2020, and progress reports
• WHO EMR Vision 2023 Mid-term Review and Push
Forward
• Introduction by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari
• Discussions
(Agenda item 2)
EM/RC68/3
EM/RC68/INF.DOC.1-12
11.00-12.00 Special updates
– Polio Eradication
– First and second meeting report of the Regional
Subcommittee for Polio Eradication and Outbreaks
EM/RC68/16
EM/RC68/17
12.00-13.00 Break
13.00-13.30 • Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth report of the
Programme Subcommittee of the Regional
Committee
• Place and date of future sessions of the Regional
Committee
• Membership of WHO bodies and committees
EM/RC68/14
EM/RC68/15
EM/RC68/INF.DOC.15
EM/RC68/11
13.30-14.30 Technical paper:
Accelerating health emergency preparedness and
response ‒ a plan of action
• Introduction
• Discussions
EM/RC68/4
14.30-15.00 World Health Assembly and Executive Board follow-up
Matters
Working Group on Strengthening WHO preparedness and
response to health emergencies; Way forward (Resolution
WHA74.7)
15.00-16.00 Panel discussion:
Shaping the future of health systems in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region: advancing the dual goals of
universal health coverage and health security
16.00-17.00 Side event:
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria:
special focus on strategic directions to accelerate ending
tuberculosis in countries of the Eastern Mediterranean
Region and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and immunization
Wednesday, 13 October 2021 – REGULAR SESSIONS OF RC68
09.00-09.55 Technical Paper:
A regional strategy for integrated disease surveillance –
overcoming data fragmentation in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region
• Introduction
• Discussions
EM/RC68/5
10.00-10.55 Technical Paper:
Building resilient communities for better health and well-
being
• Introduction
• Discussions
EM/RC68/6
11.00-12.00 Panel Discussion:
A decade of action on the Sustainable Development
Goals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: progress,
challenges and way forward
12.00-13.00 Break
13.00-13.55 Technical Paper:
Addressing diabetes as a public health challenge in the
Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Introduction
• Discussions
EM/RC68/7
14.00-14.55 Panel Discussion:
Build back fairer: achieving health equity in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region (the report of the Commission on
Social Determinants of Health in the Eastern
Mediterranean Region)
15.00-16.00 Side Event:
Measuring and verifying excess mortality during a
pandemic
17.00-18.00 Possible meeting of the drafting committee
Thursday, 14 October 2021
09.00-09.55 World Health Assembly and Executive Board follow-up –
Governance Matters
Resolutions and decisions of regional interest adopted by
the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly and the
Executive Board at its 148th and 149th Sessions
• Introduction
• Discussions
Review of the draft provisional agenda of the 150th
Session of the WHO Executive Board
• Introduction
• Discussions
Transformation Update
• Introduction
• Discussions
EM/RC68/10
EM/RC68/10-Annex 1
EM/RC68/12
10.00-10.55 Monitoring tool for implementing and sunsetting RC
resolutions – Dashboard presentation
11.00-12.00 World Health Assembly and Executive Board follow-
up – Programme and budget matters
• Revision of Proposed Programme Budget 22-23
• Sustainable financing
EM/RC68/8
EM/RC68/9
12.00-13.00 Break
13.00-14.00 Adoption of the report, resolutions and decisions
14.00-15.00 High level segment for closing (TBC)
Closing session