Agenda

REGIONAL COMMITTEE Seventy-third Session (Virtual) Thailand 9–10 September 2020 SEA/RC73/1 Rev. 1 2 July 2020 Agenda 1. Opening of the Session 2. Election of Officebearers 3. Credentials of Representatives 4. Adoption of the Agenda SEA/RC73/1 Rev. 1 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–31 December 2019 SEA/RC73/2 5.2 Address by the Director-General 6. Ministerial Roundtable on COVID-19 6.1 Country experiences and lessons learnt with future transition to the ‘new normal’ SEA/RC73/3 6.2 Maintaining essential health services and public health programmes in the context of COVID-19 SEA/RC73/4 7. Programme Budget matters 7.1 Programme Budget Performance Assessment: 2018–2019 SEA/RC73/5, SEA/RC73/5 Inf.Doc. 1 7.2 Programme Budget 2020–2021: Implementation SEA/RC73/6 Rev. 1, SEA/RC73/6 Inf.Doc. 1 SEA/RC73/1 Rev. 1 Page 2 8. Policy and technical matters 8.1 Decade for health workforce strengthening in SEA Region 2015–2024: mid-term review of progress, challenges, capacities and opportunities SEA/RC73/7 8.2 Annual report on monitoring progress on UHC and health-related SDGs SEA/RC73/8 9. Progress reports on selected Regional Committee resolutions SEA/RC73/9, SEA/RC73/9 Add. 1 & SEA/RC73/9 Add. 2 9.1 Promoting physical activity in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC69/R4) 9.2 South-East Asia Regional Action Plan to implement the Global Strategy to reduce harmful use of alcohol (2014–2025) (SEA/RC67/R4) 9.3 Access to medicines (SEA/RC70(3)) 9.4 South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF) (SEA/RC 60/R7) 9.5 Expanding the scope of the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF) (SEA/RC69/R6) 9.6 Strengthening emergency medical teams (EMTs) in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC71/R5) 9.7 Intensifying activities towards control of dengue and elimination of malaria in the South-East Asia Region (SEA/RC71/R4) 9.8 Measles and rubella elimination by 2023 (SEA/RC72/R3) 9.9 Challenges in polio eradication (SEA/RC60/R8) 10. Governing Body matters 10.1 Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the 148th session of the WHO Executive Board SEA/RC73/10 10.2 Elective posts for Governing Body meetings (WHA, EB and PBAC) 11. Management and Governance matters 11.1 WHO Transformation Agenda SEA/RC73/11 SEA/RC73/1 Rev. 1 Page 3 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 2020 SEA/RC73/12 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 2020 and nomination of a member in place of Bhutan whose term expires on 31 December 2020 SEA/RC73/13 13 Time and place of future Sessions of the Regional Committee SEA/RC73/14 14 Closing session