Report of the Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget

The Trade and Development Board

1. Requests the secretariat to organize an information session to inform member States on the following topics:
2. Changes to the budgetary process of the United Nations, and the impact on the budgetary process of the Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme Budget of UNCTAD;
3. Status report on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019;
4. Requests the secretariat to keep member States abreast of the budgetary process on a regular basis and to report back to the Working Party.