Dear members of the Executive Board and Mission Focal points,

 

We look forward to welcoming you on Monday morning at 9:30 for the opening of the 29^th meeting of the Programme Budget and Administration Committee. Please find below a few details about the programme for Monday for your advance information.

 

Member States are invited to attend an information session on Monday which will demonstrate the functionalities of the WHO Programme Budget Portal. The Information session will be held in the EB Room from 13:00 to 14:00 and interpretation will be provided in all official languages.

 

The PBAC Chair plans to propose that item 3.4 Amendments to Financial Regulations and Financial Rules [if any] be deleted from the agenda, as there are no proposed amendments at this time. In addition, the following order of agenda items will be proposed.

 

1.  Opening of the meeting and adoption of the agenda

2.1  Report of the Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee

3.2  Overview of financing and implementation of the Programme budget 2018–2019

3.5  WHO reform processes, including the transformation agenda, and implementation of United Nations development system reform

3.1  Proposed programme budget 2020–2021

3.3  Scale of assessments for 2020–2021

3.6  Human resources update, including on the global internship programme

3.7  Report of the International Civil Service Commission

3.8  Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Staff Rules

3.9  Evaluation: update

3.10  Engagement with non-State actors

4  Adoption of the report and closure of the meeting

 

Please note that the PBAC is a paperless meeting.  One tablet will be distributed per Member State delegation on Monday morning in front of the EB room.

 

Please be informed that the meeting will be broadcasted using WebEx Web Conferencing technology.

 

If you would like to follow the debates by WebEx virtually, you can join us from 21 to 23 January from 09:30 onwards GVA/CET with the links provided below.

 

 

PBAC29 from 21 to 23 January 2019 at WHO-HQ. Webcasts links.
Site: http://who-meeting.webex.com
21 January 2019 (Day 1)
English Meeting number: 845 614 741	French Meeting number: 840 407 460	Spanish Meeting number: 843 570 736	Chinese Meeting number: 846 868 279	Russian Meeting number: 841 870 042	Arabic Meeting number: 847 572 071
22 January 2019 (Day 2)
English Meeting number: 842 942 324	French Meeting number: 847 848 628	Spanish Meeting number: 846 142 638	Chinese Meeting number: 846 784 059	Russian Meeting number: 844 302 757	Arabic Meeting number: 844 793 114
23 January 2019 (Day 3)
English Meeting number: 849 140 294	French Meeting number: 849 533 987	Spanish Meeting number: 847 222 258	Chinese Meeting number: 847 444 553	Russian Meeting number: 844 479 250	Arabic Meeting number: 841 518 804

 

 

The WebEx meetings can be joined using tablets, smart phones or personal computers. You need to have a headphone or speaker  and internet connection.  Participants will be able to see the presentations, watch speakers on their screen,  listen to the meeting.

 

Before the meeting

If you are using WebEx for the first time it is very important to make sure that you have the right players installed to view the media files in the meeting.   If you do not have administrator privileges on your computer you may need to contact you own Organization’s IT support to install these players.

WebEx will automatically setup Meeting Manager for Windows the first time you join a meeting. To save time, you can setup necessary software prior to the meeting by clicking this link: https://who-meeting.webex.com/who-meeting/meetingcenter/mcsetup.php

 

On the day of the meeting

Please try to log-on at least 15 minutes in advance to the WebEx session to allow you to test the connection and audio quality of your computer.  The session will be open early to allow for this. The meeting will be transmitted in six language sessions, so make sure you click and register on the right language invitation link below While on WebEx, please remember to activate the mute button. The operator will automatically mute, but sometimes with many listeners this can be difficult, and people speak without realizing they can be heard.  

 

 

 Tips for successful participation

 ·         For assistance you can go to https://who-meeting.webex.com/who-meeting/mc and on the left navigation bar, click “Support”.    The support section contains a knowledge base, resources and a telephone number to contact.  

·         Participants joining the WebEx sessions with their tablets and smartphones (iOS, Android and BlackBerry) requires Cisco WebEx Application to be downloaded and installed prior to the meeting.

·         The minimum computer client requirements are as follows:   

-          Intel Core2 Duo CPU 2.xx GHz, 2GB RAM, JavaScript and Cookies enabled, Java 6.0 or above.  

-          MAC Intel processor, 512MB RAM, JavaScript and cookies enabled, plug-ins enabled in Safari, Java 6.0 or above.

 

Registration for the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board  can be initiated by going to the following link: http://extranet.who.int/bpmext/meetingregistration.aspx , using the following username: pbacuser, and password: Qofuha18.  More information can be found here: http://apps.who.int/gb/gov/registration.html.

 

The badges for PBAC29 can be collected at the registration desk (main entrance of WHO) as from Thursday, 17 January.

 

Best regards,

 

Dr Timothy Armstrong

Director, Department of Governing Bodies

World Health Organization