Working Party on the Programme Plan and Programme Performance, eighty-eighth session

The "Working Party" meets two to three times per year to review UNCTAD's programme plan and performance information, technical cooperation activities, evaluations, publications policy and communications strategy, as well as other topics mandated by the Trade and Development Board, which oversees the organization's activities and deals with policy issues, management and institutional matters.

Key agenda items

• Review of the technical cooperation activities of UNCTAD and their financing.
   
• Evaluation of UNCTAD activities: 
  1. Evaluation of UNCTAD activities: Overview 
  2. External evaluation of UNCTAD subprogramme 3: International trade and commodities.
      
• Preparatory session for the 2026 programme plan and performance information.
   

Participation

Member States are requested to submit to the UN Trade and Development secretariat the names of the representatives, alternate representatives and advisers that will participate in the session by Friday, 4 October 2024.

Representatives from United Nations bodies and programmes, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental bodies that may wish to participate in the session as observers are also requested to inform the UN Trade and Development secretariat of the names of their representatives by the same date.

Registration

Online registration is mandatory for all those wishing to attend the meeting and is required for inclusion in the list of participants.

Logistics

The session will be held with physical participation in room XVII of the Palais des Nations. Those who cannot attend the meeting in person will be able to listen to the live audio stream. However, remote interventions will not be possible.

The link to listen live will be sent to registered participants, at the email address used for registration, one day in advance of the start of the meeting.