The Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme held its third session for the year 2023 from 28 to 30 November 2023. The session was held fully in-person at the UN-Habitat Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.


Notification by the Executive Director
Notification by the Executive Director

Proposed Provisional Agenda
HSP/EB.2023/10- Provisional Agenda for the third session of 2023 of the Executive Board.

HSP/EB.2023/10/Rev.1 : Revised Agenda for the third session of 2023 of the Executive Board

Programme
Programme at a Glance

Detailed programme

Pre-session documents
HSP/EB.2023/10- Provisional Agenda for the third session of 2023 of the Executive Board.

HSP/EB.2023/10/Add.1: Annotated Provisional Agenda

HSP/EB.2023/INF/5 : List of Documents before the 2023 third session of the Executive Board

HSP/EB.2023/7-Decisions adopted by the Executive Board at its first session of 2023

HSP/EB.2023/6-Draft report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme on the work of its first session of 2023

HSP/EB.2023/9- Draft report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme on the work of its second session of 2023

HSP/EB.2023/10/Rev.1 : Revised Agenda for the third session of 2023 of the Executive Board

HSP/EB.2023/INF/6 - Draft Stakeholder Engagement Policy as at 25 May 2023

A/78/5/ Add.9 : Financial report and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2022 and report of the Board of Auditors

HSP/EB.2023/11-Report of the Executive Director on the Financial status of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme as at 30 June 2023

HSP/EB.2023/11/Add.1: Report of the Executive Director on the Programme budget implications of the scalability model for the non-earmarked Foundation budget of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme

HSP/EB.2023/11/ Add.2 -Report of the Executive Director on Recruitment, equitable geographical distribution and gender parity

HSP/EB.2023/12/Add.1 -Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions

HSP/EB.2023/12: Draft work programme of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and draft budget of the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation for 2024

HSP/EB.2023/13-Report of the Executive Director on the Due diligence assessment of the Sustainable Human Settlements

HSP/EB.202/CRP.7 Annexes to the Due diligence assessment of the Sustainable Human Settlements Foundation

HSP/EB.2023/14 : Report of the Executive Director on the principal obstacles to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda by Member States

HSP/EB.2023/15 : Report of the Executive Director on the preparations for the development of the strategic plan for the period 2026–2029

HSP/EB.2023/CRP.8 - Draft terms of reference of the urban action funding window

HSP/EB.2023/16 -Report of the Executive Director on the Proposed road map for preparations for the development of international guidelines on people-centred smart cities as a non-binding framework for developing national and local smart city regulations

HSP/EB.2023/INF/7 - Highlights of normative and operational activities for the period January–June 2023

HSP/EB.2023/17 -Report of the Executive Director on Report of the Executive Director on normative and operational activities of UN-Habitat, including an update on SDG Cities, the Sustainable Urban Resilience for the Next Generation (SURGe) initiative

HSP/EB.2023/18 - Report of the Executive Director on the status of preparations for the twelfth session of the World Urban Forum

HSP/EB.2023/19 -Note by the Secretariat on Implementation by UN-Habitat of the reform of the United Nations development system

HSP/EB.2023/INF/8 - Checklist on the Implementation of the Reform of the UN development system by UN-Habitat

HSP/EB.2023/20: Note by the secretariat on the summaries of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services to the Executive Board and the report of the Ethics Office to the Executive Board

HSP/EB.2023/20: Note by the secretariat on the summaries of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services to the Executive Board and the report of the Ethics Office to the Executive Board

HSP/EB.2023/21- Report of the Executive Director on the implementation of the recommendations of the 2022 report of the Joint Inspection Unit on the findings of its review of the management and administration of UN-Habitat

HSP/EB.2023/INF/9: Note by the secretariat on the results of the survey conducted by the secretariat after the first session of the EB of 2023 to evaluate the effectiveness of that session so as to further improve the process and outcome of future session

In-session documents
HSP/EB.2023/CRP.4. : Update on the work of the 2023 Bureau of the Executive Board towards preparations of the session

HSP/EB.2023/10/Rev.1 : Revised Agenda for the third session of 2023 of the Executive Board

HSP/EB.2023/CRP.5 : Report of the Executive Director on the financial status as at 30 September 2023

HSP/EB.2023/CRP.6 : Staffing of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme as of 30 September 2023

Financial, budgetary and administrative matters, including the implementation of the resource mobilization strategy in accordance with the strategic plan for the period 2020–2025; a report on the fully costed scalability model

Activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services in UN-Habitat

Discussion and possible approval of the draft work programme of UN-Habitat and the draft budget of the United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation for 2024​

HSP/EB.202/CRP.7 Annexes to the Due diligence assessment of the Sustainable Human Settlements Foundation

Discussion on the due diligence​ of the Sustainable Human Settlements Foundation​

Report of the Executive Director on the analysis of the principal obstacles to the implementation of the New Urban Agenda by Member States​

HSP/EB.2023/CRP.8 - Draft terms of reference of the urban action funding window

Draft terms of reference of the urban action funding window towards the need to achieve the implementation of United Nations Habitat Assembly resolutions in a balanced manner

Normative and operational activities of UN-Habitat, including an update on SDG Cities, the Sustainable Urban Resilience for the Next Generation (SURGe) initiative

Draft decisions of the Executive Board
HSP/EB.2023/CRP.9/Rev.1 : Draft Outcomes to be considered by the Executive Board at its third session of 2023

Post-session documents
HSP/EB.2023/23 - Decisions adopted by the Executive Board at its third session of 2023

HSP/EB.2023/22 - Draft report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme on the work of its third session of 2023 (English Advance)

Statements
Statement by the Asia Pacific Group

Statement by Argentina on behalf of GRULAC

Statement by the Executive Director of UN-Habitat

Statement by Morocco

Statement by Uganda

Statement by Venezuela

Statement by Egypt

Statement by South Africa

Statement by USA

Statement by Colombia

Statement by Nigeria

Statement by African Group

Statement by European Union

Statement by Nigeria - final

Agenda item 4
Statement by Morocco on Agenda 4

Statement by Malawi on Agenda item 4

Statement by Brazil on Agenda item 4

Agenda item 5
Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 5

Statement by Brazil on Agenda item 5

Statement by Morocco on Agenda item 5,6,7

Agenda item 7
Statement by Nigeria on Agenda item 7

Statement by Finland on Agenda item 7

Statement by Malaysia on Agenda item 7

Statement by Brazil on Agenda item 7

Agenda item 8
Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 8

Statement by Nigeria on Agenda item 8

Agenda item 9
Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 9

Agenda item 10
Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 10

Agenda item 11
Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 11

Statement by Burkina Faso on Agenda item 11

Statement by Egypt on Agenda item 11

Statement by Palestine on Agenda item 11 and 12

Agenda item 12
Statement by Egypt on Agenda item 12

Statement by Argentina on Agenda item 12

Membership of the Executive Board Seating arrangement
Information for participants
Information Notes for Participants

Daily journal
Registration