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Ref.: C.L.8.2025
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) presents his compliments
… to Member States and has the honour to transmit the provisional agenda for the Forty-second
meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board
(PBAC42), which will be held in person in WHO headquarters, Geneva from Wednesday,
14 to Friday, 16 May 2025, starting at 09:30 (CEST).
There is no limitation applying to the number of persons registering as part of Member
States’ delegations. However, in view of the space restriction, two persons per each Member
State may be present in the meeting room where the PBAC is convened.
Membership of this Committee is as follows: Mr José Acacio (Australia),
Mr Wayne Marshall (Barbados), Mr Tovar da Silva Nunes (Brazil), Dr Isaa Ben Imani (Comoros),
Dr Pak Jong Min (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea), Dr Cathrine Marie Lofthus (Norway),
Dr Salih Ali Al-Marri (Qatar), Mrs Hyejin Kim (Republic of Korea), Mr Andrei Cazacu
(Republic of Moldova), Dr Ibrahima Sy (Senegal), Dr Ali Haji Adam Abubakar (Somalia),
Dr Viroj Tangcharoensathien (Thailand), Dr Jerome X. Walcott (Barbados) ex officio,
Ms Barbara Schedler Fischer (Switzerland) ex officio.
Registration can be initiated as of 14 April 2025 by going to the following link:
https://indico.un.org/e/PBAC42 and should be completed by 7 May 2025.
In accordance with resolution WHA49.9 (1996), and to support the aim of achievement of
SDG 5 (Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls), the Director-General
invites Member States to consider that gender balance be applied to their delegations.
The Code of Conduct to prevent harassment, including sexual harassment at WHO events
is available at the following link: Code of Conduct to prevent harassment, including sexual
harassment, at WHO events.
Documents pertaining to PBAC42 are available at:
https://apps.who.int/gb/pbac/e/e_pbac42.html. Delegates are reminded that, as agreed by the
Executive Board at its 143rd session, governing body meetings are paperless.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization takes this opportunity to renew to
Member States the assurance of his highest consideration.
GENEVA, 2 April 2025
... ENCL.: (1)
Programme, Budget and Administration
Committee of the Executive Board
Forty-second meeting
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Geneva, 14–16 May 2025 EBPBAC42/1
1 April 2025
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Provisional agenda
1. Opening of the meeting and adoption of the agenda
Document EBPBAC42/1
2. Matters for information or action by the Committee
2.1 Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee: annual report
Document EBPBAC42/2
2.2 WHO’s action on United Nations System-wide action plans
• Progress towards achieving the United Nations System-wide Action Plan on Gender
Equality and the Empowerment of Women
Document EBPBAC42/3
2.3 Compliance, risk management and ethics: annual report
Document EBPBAC42/4
2.4 Reports of the Joint Inspection Unit
Document EBPBAC42/5
3. Matters to be considered by the Seventy-eighth World Health Assembly
3.1 Results report 2024 (Programme budget 2024–2025: performance assessment) and
financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024
Documents A78/17, A78/18 and A78/INF./3
3.2 Financing and implementation of the Programme budget 2024–2025
Documents A78/19, A78/20 and A78/INF./4
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3.3 Proposed programme budget 2026–2027
Document A78/6
3.4 Sustainable financing: WHO investment round
Document A78/21
3.5 Scale of assessments 2026–2027
Document A78/22
3.6 Status of collection of assessed contributions, including Member States in arrears in
the payment of their contributions to an extent that would justify invoking Article 7 of
the Constitution
Document A78/23
3.7 Special arrangements for settlement of arrears [if any]
3.8 Assessment of new Members and Associate Members [if any]
3.9 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules
Document A78/24
3.10 Report of the External Auditor
Document A78/25
3.11 Report of the Internal Auditor
Document A78/26
3.12 External and internal audit recommendations: progress on implementation
Document A78/27
3.13 Process of handling and investigating potential allegations against WHO
Directors-General (decision WHA77(15) (2024))
Document A78/5
3.14 Human resources: annual report
Document A78/28
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4. Matters for review by, and/or recommendation to the Executive Board
4.1 Governance reform
• Matters emanating from the Agile Member States Task Group on Strengthening
WHO’s Budgetary, Programmatic and Financing Governance: results of the
questionnaire on the preparation of draft resolutions and decisions (decision
EB153(2) (2023))
Document EB157/6
• Proposals for improving the effectiveness of the governing bodies
Document EB157/7
4.2 Evaluation: annual report
Documents EB157/4 and EB157/4 Add.1
4.3 Statement by the representative of the WHO staff associations
Document EB157/INF./1
4.4 Amendments to the Financial Regulations and Financial Rules
Document EB157/12
4.5 Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules [if any]
4.6 Hosted partnerships
• Proposals for WHO to host formal partnerships [if any]
• Report on hosted partnerships
Document EB157/9
• Review of hosted partnerships
Document EB157/10
5. Adoption of the report and closure of the meeting
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Dear Member States of the World Health Organization,
Please find attached, in the six official languages, C.L.8.2025 regarding
the Forty-second meeting of the Programme, Budget and Administration
Committee of the Executive Board (14-16 May 2025).
Best regards,
Department of Governing Bodies
World Health Organization
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