Item 10 (c) of the provisional agenda

Item 16 Report of the Executive Director for 2004

Requests the Executive Director

Support provided to the Executive Director

2005 25 Report of the Executive Director for 2004

In 2006 the regular staff will consist of the Director (D 2), the Deputy Director (D 1) and two General Service staff.

Ms. Katherine Hagan, Director, Geneva Social Observatory

The Executive Director reported that the impact of the epidemic was huge.

The Director ad interim of the Office of the Programme Planning and Budget Division made additional comments.

Conselheira Regina Célia de Oliveira Bittencourt Advisor to the Director General

The Director thanked all Committee members who had contributed to those activities.

Interim financial report for the year ended 31 December 2004

The financial report provides the financial results of UNICEF activities in 2004. Highlights are summarized in the following paragraphs.

Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, is a case in point.

Ms. Lisa Dreier, Associate Director, Policy and Governance, World Economic Forum

The report (E ICEF 2005 P L.28) was introduced by the Regional Director.

1. Welcomes the appointment of the new Executive Director of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)

Report of the Director of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women on the strengthening of the Institute

Ms. Francesca Boldrini, Director, Global Health Initiative, World Economic Forum, Cologny, Switzerland

The Executive Director recommends that the Executive Board approve the following draft decision

Martha Julia Lugo de Zahner Executive Director Nicaraguan Institute for Women

The Chairman thanked the Executive Director of UN Habitat for her explanations.

The Executive Director briefed delegates on the UNICEF response to the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster.

The Executive Director assured delegations that planning for the future had already begun in earnest.

No travel requests were denied, although OIOS determined that the Director's travel could have been curtailed in order to ensure greater management oversight of programme effectiveness by the Director at the Institute's headquarters in Santo Domingo.

I reiterate my call to all parties to respect and protect cultural heritage in Yemen.

The Executive Director added that UNICEF took these issues very seriously.

The Acting Deputy Executive Director further explained that the chapeau of the aAppendix washad been adjusted accordingly.

Ms. Valérie Engammare, Regional Manager, South East Asia, Swiss Organization for Facilitating Investment, Berne, Switzerland

She would like to know the thinking of the Executive Director of UN Habitat on that issue.

The Executive Director thanked the members of the Board for their support for her appointment as the fifth Executive Director of UNICEF.

That is why he barged his way past Hillary Clinton, the consummate operator of the party machine.

I stormed off to the school like a madwoman, and the headteacher at the time said to me, I want to receive God's reward because of them.

The Executive Director presented the summary of the President to the Commission at its high level segment.

The Director submits annual and ad hoc reports on the Institute's activities and the execution of its work programme to the Executive Board.

Adopted decision 2005 25 of 23 June 2005 on the report of the Executive Director for 2004.

Report of the Executive Director Results achieved for children in 2004 in support of the medium term strategic plan

69) one D 1 level post for a Principal Adviser, to head a new unit focusing on United Nations reform, in line with the priorities indicated in paragraph 13 (a) above (see para. 100 and paras. 24 29 of E ICEF 2006 AB L.1) and one D 1 level post for an Ombudsperson (ibid., para.

The Executive Director recommends that the Executive Board adopt the programme of work for Executive Board sessions in 2006, subject to revisions as appropriate during the year.

The Executive Director and other members of the secretariat participated in panel discussions during the humanitarian affairs segment.

The Executive Director addressed issues linked to UNGEI, highlighting its roll out at country level and the efforts under way to strengthen the secretariat, including through the addition of two staff posts under the supervision of a Deputy Executive Director, as a means of raising its profile.

Global Voices is very pleased to announce that Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, has joined the board of Global Voices. Sue Gardner, Executive Director, Wikimedia. Photo Lane Hartwell, distributed under a GNU Free Documentation License.

Ms. Tibaijuka (Executive Director of UN Habitat) said that sustainable urbanization was a condition for sustainable development.

The Executive Director said that the plan supported the government commitments reinforced at the recent United Nations Summit.

On January 18, UNICEF's Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Maria Calivis stated