Draft provisional agenda, place and dates of the sixty-ninth session of the Regional Committee

AFR/RC68/16 30 August 2018 REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Sixty-eighth Session Dakar, Republic of Senegal, 27–31 August 2018 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Agenda item 20 DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDA, PLACE AND DATES OF THE SIXTY-NINTH SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 1. In accordance with Rule 4 of the Rules of Procedure of the Regional Committee and Procedural Decision No.4 of its Sixty- seventh session, the Regional Director presents the following proposal on the place and dates for the Sixty-ninth session of the Regional Committee. 2. As regards Member States’ requests to host the Regional Committee, it should be noted that the cost of holding the Regional Committee outside the Regional Office is high. Furthermore, by virtue of Resolution AFR/RC41/R13, the additional costs of hosting the Regional Committee in a country other than that of the Regional Office shall be fully borne by the host country; 3. Should a Member State wish to host a Regional Committee, an agreement is drawn up between the host country’s government and the World Health Organization, covering the following items that are required for the Regional Committee meeting: (a) premises, furniture and equipment, including interpretation equipment required for the Regional Committee’s work; (b) lighting equipment, including maintenance, electric power supply and ventilation of the premises; (c) staff for maintenance, cleaning and surveillance of the premises, installations, equipment and supplies; (d) postal and telephone service, together with radio and television coverage essential for the efficient and proper coverage of the Regional Committee’s proceedings; (e) accommodation and travel expenses for the WHO Secretariat authorized to attend the meeting; (f) vehicles for transporting Member State representatives, members of the WHO Secretariat, equipment, supplies and documents; (g) national currency at the best rate of exchange and in the amount needed to meet the Organization’s expenses in the host country. AFR/RC68/16 Page 2 4. The Regional Director deems it expedient to draw the attention of the Member States to the need to give full consideration to these commitments. 5. In accordance with resolution AFR/RC35/R10,1 which resolved that ‘the Regional Committee shall meet at least once every two years at the Regional Office’, the Sixty-eighth session of the Regional Committee decided that the Sixty-ninth Regional Committee be held at the WHO Regional Office in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo from 26 to 30 August 2019. The draft provisional agenda of the Sixty-ninth session of the Regional Committee is attached herewith. 1 World Health Organization, Regional Committee for Africa, Thirty-fifth session. AFR/RC68/16 Page 3 ANNEX AFR/RC69/1 30 August 2018 REGIONAL COMMITTEE FOR AFRICA Sixty-ninth Session Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 26–30 August 2019 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH Provisional agenda item 3 DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDA 1. Opening of the meeting 2. Election of the Chairperson, the Vice-Chairpersons and the Rapporteurs 3. Adoption of the agenda 4. Appointment of members of the Committee on Credentials 5. The Work of WHO in the African Region 6. Statement of the Chairperson of the Programme Subcommittee 7. [Matters of global concern related to World Health Assembly decisions and resolutions] 8. Nomination of the Regional Director 9. Progress report on the Implementation of the Transformation Agenda of the World Health Organization Secretariat in the African Region 10. Regional framework for Defeating Meningitis by 2030 11. Strategic plan for nutrition in the WHO African Region (2019–2023) 12. Framework for provision of essential health services through strengthened district/local health systems to support UHC in the context of the SDGs 13. Framework for the implementation of the Global Vector Control Response in the WHO African Region 14. Accelerating the response to noncommunicable diseases in the African Region in line with the Political Declaration of the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of NCDs 15. Regional orientation on the implementation of the WHO Programme Budget 2020-2021 16. Information Documents 16.1 Progress on the implementation of the Regional Strategy on Heath Security and Emergencies 16.2 Progress report on the implementation of the Regional Strategic Plan for Immunization 2014–2020 AFR/RC68/16 Page 4 16.3 Progress report on the implementation of the Regional Strategy for cancer prevention and control 16.4 Progress report on implementation of the Global Mental Health Action Plan 2015–2020 16.5 Progress in the implementation of the Regional strategy and Regional Strategic Plan for Neglected Tropical Diseases (2014–2020) 16.6 The first United Nations General Assembly High-level Meeting on TB – Implications for the WHO African Region 16.7 Progress report on the implementation of the Regional Framework for Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change 17. Draft provisional agenda, place and dates of the Seventieth session of the Regional Committee 18. Adoption of the report of the Regional Committee 19. Closure of the Sixty-ninth session of the Regional Committee