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30 September & 1 October 2019 at UNESCO Headquarters (Room XI) from 10am to 6pm: Meeting of the Working Group on governance, procedures and working methods of the governing bodies of UNESCO

Report by the President of the General Conference - Tuesday 1 October
Informal Summary of the meeting on 30 September (French)
Revised Provisional agenda
Document 40 C/29 - Item 6.1 of the provisional agenda of the General Conference
Document 40 C/Inf.16 - Item 6.1 of the provisional agenda of the General Conference
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Presentation by the Heads of the Governing Bodies of IIBs :

- Presentation by the International Bioethics Committee (IBC)

- Presentation by the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST)

- Presentation by the International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP)

- Presentation by the Man and the Biosphere International Coordinating Council (MAB)

- Presentation by the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)

- Presentation by the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

- Presentation by the Intergovernmental Council of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme

- Presentation by the Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee (IGBC)

13 June 2019 at UNESCO Headquarters (Room XI) from 10am to 6pm: Meeting of the Working Group on governance, procedures and working methods of the governing bodies of UNESCO

27 March 2019 at UNESCO Headquarters (Room XI) from 10am to 6pm: Meeting of the Working Group on governance, procedures and working methods of the governing bodies of UNESCO

The purpose of the meeting of 27 March 2019 is reviewing follow-up to those recommendations of the Working Group (as endorsed by the General Conference) pertaining to UNESCO IIBs. To this end, the Chairs of the organs concerned presented the action taken by each one of them therein. The presentations have been followed by a debate.

Presentation by the Heads of the Governing Bodies of IIBs :

- Presentation by the World Heritage Convention 1972

- Presentation by the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

- Presentation by the UNESCO's International Geoscience & Geoparks Programme (IGGP)

- Presentation by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

- Presentation by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)

- Presentation by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

- Presentation by the International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

At its 39th session, the General Conference endorsed – through Resolution 39 C/87 - 131 of the 134 recommendations proposed by the Working Group on governance, procedures and methods of work of the governing bodies of UNESCO.

Part 2, Sections B to G of the Working Group's recommendations contain 74 recommendations addressed to the UNESCO International and Intergovernmental Bodies (IIBs) together with two Appendixes containing, respectively, Guidelines on the responsibilities of representatives of Electoral Groups in Bureaus and a Non exhaustive list of best practices of the IIBs.

In paragraph 3 of Resolution 39 C/87 the General Conference invited the Executive Board, the Director-General and the governing bodies of the different organs examined by the open-ended working group on governance to implement, as appropriate, the above-mentioned recommendations.

Accordingly, the President of the General Conference invited the Chairs of the IIBs to place an item on the agendas of their respective meetings concerning the appropriate recommendations and to report back to her.

Letter by the President of the 39th General Conference Ms Zohour ALAOUI

To date, the President of the General Conference has received the following answers:

Feedback (in original language of submission) from the international and intergovernmental bodies:

Contributions to come:

UNESCO International Institute for Capacity-Building in Africa (IICBA)
Convention against discrimination in Education (1960)
Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or its Restitution in Case of Illicit Appropriation (ICPRCP)
Executive Committee for the International Campaign for the Establishment of the Nubia Museum in Aswan and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo
International Fund for the Promotion of Culture
International Advisory Committee (IAC) of the Memory of the World Programme

Archives of the Working Group on Governance during the 38th session of the General Conference

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