70th meeting of the Standing Committee

• Provisional annotated agenda (EC/68/SC/CRP.24)
• Introductory remarks by the Deputy High Commissioner

(a) Finance and oversight

• Financial statements for the year 2016 as contained in the Report of the Board of Auditors to the General Assembly on the financial report and audited financial statements of the voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the year ended 31 December 2016 (A/AC.96/1168)
• Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2016 (Report of the Board of Auditors) (A/72/5/Add.6)
• Key issues and measures taken in response to the report of the Board of Auditors for 2016 (A/AC.96/1168/Add.1)
• Presentation by the Acting Controller and Director of the Division of Administrative and Financial Management
• Internal audit activities in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 (A/AC.96/1170)
• Presentation the Chief of the UNHCR Audit Service, Internal Audit Division, Office of Internal Oversight Services
• Report of the Independent Audit and Oversight Committee, 2016-2017 (EC/68/SC/CRP.28)
• Presentation by the Chairperson (2016-2017) of the Independent Audit and Oversight Committee 

(b) Management

• Progress toward implementing the "grand bargain" commitments (EC/68/SC/CRP.25)
• Presentation of the Director of the Division of External Relations

(c) Human resources

• Human resources, including staff welfare (EC/68/SC/CRP.26)
• Presentation by the Director of the Division of Human Resources Management
• Staff safety and security (EC/68/SC/CRP.27)
• Presentation by the Director of the Division of Emergency, Security and Supply

• Oral update on ExCom conclusion(s)

• Update on budgets and funding (EC/68/SC/CRP.29)
• Presentation by the Acting Controller and Director of  the Division of Financial and Administrative Management
• Presentation of the Director of the Division of External Relations
• Biennial programme budget for 2018-2019 of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (A/AC.96/1169)
• Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) (A/AC.96/1169/Add.1)
• Presentation by the Acting Controller and Director of the Division of Financial and Administrative Management

• Oral update on the comprehensive refugee response framework
• Presentation by the Director for Comprehensive Responses

• Report of the seventieth meeting of the Standing Committee (21-22 September 2017)