Provisional annotated agenda (2 and 3 February 1998)

EC/48/SC/CRP.2

PROVISIONAL ANNOTATED AGENDA (2 and 3 February 1998)

1. Adoption of the agenda

2. Programme and funding matters

The Standing Committee will consider updated information relating to UNHCR's 1997 and 1998 programmes and funding projections entitled Overall Programme and Funding Projections for 1997 and 1998 (EC/48/SC/CRP.4). Selected operational maps, contained in Addendum I, are available at the back of the conference room.

3. Situation reports

The Standing Committee will review UNHCR's activities in Central Asia, South West Asia, North Africa and the Middle East (EC/48/SC/CRP.3).

4. Reports relating to oversight

The Standing Committee will have before it Audit Follow-up: Procurement and Asset Management (EC/48/SC/CRP.5)

5. Management, financial and human resources matters¹

Under this agenda item, the Standing Committee will consider the following two sub-items:

(i) An oral report on outsourcing; and

(ii) An Update on Project Delphi (EC/48/SC/CRP.6).

6. Protection/Programme policy issues

The Standing Committee will consider the issue of new approaches to reintegration, including UNHCR's contribution to rehabilitation programmes in post-conflict societies. Discussion will be based on Annual Theme: Repatriation Challenges (A/AC.96/887).

7. Any other business

The 1998 work programme of the Standing Committee²

1 An extract (EC/48/SC/CRP.1) relating to UNHCR from the Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) to the General Assembly at its Fifty-Second Session on the Financial Reports and Audited Financial Statements, and Reports of the Board of Auditors is available at the back of the conference room.

2 Under this agenda item, the Chairman will revisit the issue of modalities for approaching the topic of the economic and social impact of massive refugee population on host developing countries, as well as other countries. In addition, the working titles of some of the agenda items in the programme of work for the Standing Committee in 1998 will ne