The Chief Executives Board (CEB) supports the coordination of and follow-up to the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries (DPoA) on a system-wide basis and retains on its agenda the issue of investment promotion regimes for the least developed countries.

With the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, world leaders agreed on a vision and an ambitious plan of action for change: freeing the world of poverty and hunger, protecting the planet from degradation; ensuring that all people can live prosperous and fulfilling lives in dignity and equality, and fostering peaceful, just and inclusive societies free of fear and violence. CEB plays a central role in ensuring coordinated and coherent United Nations system-wide support in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the Decade of Action.

A package of high-priority efficiency measures to streamline operations, reduce costs, and boost collaboration impact.

The High-level Committee on Management and its Networks promote and coordinate reforms relating to administrative and management issues by advancing and accelerating management coordination and mutual recognition and harmonization of business practices.

The Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) and its high-level committees, High Level Committee on Management (HLCM) and the High Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), have devoted significant attention to strengthening system-wide policy and programmatic coordination and coherence to address the social, economic and environmental implications of rapidly developing technologies, including artificial intelligence, as well as to capturing innovation-driven opportunities for accelerating the achievement of the SDGs.

The Chief Executives Board (CEB) for Coordination and its two high-level committees, the High-level Committee on Management (HLCM) and the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), have been contributing to strengthen, advance and innovate the UN system’s joint efforts to collect, produce, provide and use data and statistics.

The simultaneous challenges with which the world is grappling (COVID-19, the climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, extreme inequalities, shifting globalization dynamics, financial volatility and vulnerability, rapid digital transformation and the digital and data divides among others) have ignited a broad rethinking of business-as-usual practices in evaluating the wellbeing of people and planet. In this context, the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) in November 2021 deliberated on measuring progress beyond gross domestic product (GDP).

Demographic change is a critical megatrend affecting all pillars of sustainable development. The HLCP Task Team on Demographic Change focuses on strengthening UN system-wide understanding, coherence and coordination in addressing demographic change and its implications for sustainable development.