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• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Global Crises

Global Crises, new, reemerging or unrelenting, have been dominating the agenda and work of the United Nations system since its foundation. The UN system has been striving to support Member States in resolving, alleviating and jointly tackling these crises, with a view to safeguarding peace, protecting human rights, establishing the...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Health

Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (HALE) have both increased by over 8% globally between 2000 and 2016, with the biggest gains being reported in low-income countries. Despite these positive trends low-income and lower-middle-income countries continue to suffer from the poorest overall health outcomes, lagging far behind the...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Human Rights

As enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, human rights is one of the three founding pillars of work of the Organization, along with peace and security and development. In 2016, CEB members affirmed the United Nations system’s commitment to a more equal world respectful of human rights and dignity and endorsed the shared...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Indigenous Peoples

In November 2020, on the fifth anniversary of the system-wide action plan on the rights of indigenous peoples (SWAP-Indigenous Peoples), the Chief Executives Board (CEB) endorsed a call to action on building an inclusive, sustainable and resilient future with indigenous peoples to strengthen collective and coherent UN system efforts...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Inequalities

Rising inequalities across the world is one of the defining challenges of our time, putting sustainable development at risk, stirring social unrest, undermining social progress, threatening economic and political stability, and undercutting human rights. The shared United Nations system Framework for action on Equality and Non...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)

Innovation

Innovation is about being much more effective and at the scale that is necessary to benefit the people the United Nations serves.” – Secretary-General António Guterres, CEB Second Regular Session of 2018. In this period of immense and rapid change, the United Nations system must adapt and innovate to take advantage of new working...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

LDCs

The Chief Executives Board (CEB) supports the coordination of and follow-up to the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (IPoA) on a system-wide basis and retains on its agenda the issue of investment promotion regimes for the least developed countries.

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Leadership

The United Nations system Leadership Framework was developed under the auspices of CEB to establish a common United Nations leadership culture aligned with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Migration

Migrants are integral members of society, contributing to mutual understanding and sustainable development in communities of both origin and destination. Today, more people than ever live in a country other than the one in which they were born. In 2019, the number of migrants globally reached an estimated 272 million, 51 million more...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Multilingualism

The General Assembly has consistently underlined the importance that multilingualism, a core value of the Organization, plays in achieving the goals of the United Nations as set out in the Charter and is personally committed to fostering multilingualism throughout the United Nations system. The UN Secretariat, as the lead entity on...