Agenda

REGIONAL COMMITTEE Seventieth Session SEA/RC70/1 Rev. 2 Maldives 6–10 September 2017 5 September 2017 Agenda 1. Opening of the Session 2. Credentials of Representatives 3. Election of Officebearers 4. Adoption of the Agenda SEA/RC70/1 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 2016–31 December 2016 SEA/RC70/2 5.2 Address by the Director-General 6. Ministerial Roundtable 6.1 Building health systems resilience to climate change SEA/RC70/3 Rev.1 7. Programme Budget matters: 7.1 Programme Budget 2016–2017: Implementation and mid-term review SEA/RC70/4 and INF.DOC.1 7.2 Programme Budget 2018–2019 SEA/RC70/5, INF.DOC.1, INF.DOC.2 and INF.DOC.3 7.3 Transparency, accountability, monitoring and evaluation SEA/RC70/6 Rev.1, INF.DOC.1 Rev. 1 and INF.DOC.2 7.4 Draft Concept Note on the Thirteenth WHO General Programme of Work SEA/RC70/21 8. Policy and technical matters: 8.1 Hepatitis SEA/RC70/7 8.2 TB: ‘Bending the Curve’ SEA/RC70/8 SEA/RC70/1 Rev. 2 Page 2 8.3 Access to medicines SEA/RC70/9 8.4 Vector control SEA/RC70/10 8.5 Road safety SEA/RC70/11 8.6 SDGs and progress towards universal health coverage: i. Strengthening PHC and health workforce ii. Annual progress monitoring of UHC and SDGs SEA/RC70/12 9. Progress reports on selected Regional Committee resolutions SEA/RC70/13 Rev.1, Add.1, Add.2 and Add.3 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 SEA/RC70/14 Rev.1 10.2 Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the 142nd Session of the WHO Executive Board SEA/RC70/15 10.3 Elective posts for Governing Body meetings (WHA, EB and PBAC) 11. Management and Governance matters: Status of the SEA Regional Office Building SEA/RC70/16 SEA/RC70/1 Rev. 2 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 2017 SEA/RC70/17 Rev.1 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 SEA/RC70/18 13 Time and place of future Sessions of the Regional Committee SEA/RC70/19 14 Adoption of resolutions 15 Adoption of the Report of the Seventieth Session of the Regional Committee SEA/RC70/20 16 Closing session