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Provisional Agenda Item 31 CSP21/9 (Eng.)

19 July 1982

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

PROVISIONAL AGENDA OF THE SEVENTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF WHO: ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

The Director is pleased to transmit to the XXI Pan American Sanitary Conference the tentative provisional agenda of the Seventy-first Session of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization, to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in January 1983.

The regional committees of WHO are asked to review the tentative provisional agenda and to transmit any comments or observations they may have to the Executive Board.

CSP21/9 (Eng.) ANNEX

EXECUTIVE BOARD EBTI/I

Seventy-first Session

Geneva, January 1983

TENTATIVE PROVISIONAL AGENDA

(As reviewed by the GPC in May 1982)

I. Opening of the session

2. Adoption of the agenda

3. Report on appointments to expert advisory panels and committees

4. Report on meetings of expert committees and study groups

5. Transfers between sections of the Appropriation Resolution for the

financial period 1982-1983 (if any)

6. Supplementary budget for 1982-1983 (if any)

7. Proposed programme budget for the financial period 1984-1985

7.1 General programme policy

7.2 Programme review (including reports by the Programme Committee on specific programme matters-)

7.3 Financial review

7.4 Budget level and Appropriation Resolution for the financial

period 1984-1985

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The Programme Committee may report on the following matters:

- Health manpower development

I. Policy on fellowships

2. The role of nursing in the primary health care team

- Evaluation of the Special Programme for Research and Training in

Tropical Diseases: Report of the External Review Committee to review the first five years of the Special Programme's operations

EB7₁11

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8. Reports of the Regional Directors on Regional Committee matters

requiring the particular attention of the Board

9. Members in arrears in the payment of their contributions to an

extent which may invoke Article 7 of the Constitution (if any)

IO. Appointment of the Regional Director for the Americas

ii. Director-General

ii.I Nomination for the post

11.2 Draft contract

12. Global Strategy for Health for All by the Year 2000 (progress

report by the Director-General and report by the Programme

Committee on the monitoring and evaluation of the Global Strategy and related methodology and content of the Seventh Report on the

World Health Situation)

Resolutions WHA29.22, WHA34.36, para. 7 (2) and WHA35.23

13. International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

(Status of compliance with and implementation of the Code at country, regional and global levels)

Resolution _A34.22, paras. 3 and 5 (3)

14. Policy on Patents (progress report)

Resolution WHA35.14

15. Action in respect of international conventions on narcotic and

psychotropic substances

Resolution EB69.R9

16. Method of work and duration of the Health Assembly

EBTI/I

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17. Subject of the Technical Discussions at the Thirty-seventh World

Health Assembly (1984) (if appropriate)

18. Statement by the representative of the WHO Staff Associations (if any)

19. Confirmation of amendments to the Staff Rules (if any)

20. Recruitment of international staff in WHO

Resolution WHA32.37

21. Real Estate Fund and headquarters accommodation

22. Collaboration with the United Nations system

22.1 General matters

22.2 Report(s) of the Joint Inspection Unit

22.3 Report of the International Civil Service Commission

22.4 Health assistance to refugees in Africa

Resolution WHA35.29

23. Coordination with nongovernmental organizations

23.1 Applications of nongovernmental organizations for admission into official relations with WHO

"23.2 Review of nongovernmental organizations in official relations with WHO

24. Awards

24.1 Dr A. T. Shousha Foundation Medal, Prize and Fellowship

(report of the Dr A. T. Shousha Foundation Committee)

24.2 Jacques Parisot Foundation Fellowship

(report of the Jacques Parisot Foundation Committee)

Decision EB69(9)

24.3 Child Health Foundation Medal and Prize

EB71/I

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25. Appointment of the Committee of the Executive Board to consider

certain financial matters prior to the Health Assembly

26. Provisional agenda for and duration of the Thirty-sixth World

Health Assembly

27. Date and place of the Seventy-second Session of the Executive Board