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• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Addressing Sexual Harassment

Harassment of any type is antithetical to the principles of the UN, and sexual harassment in particular undermines its credibility and degrades its staff. The Secretary-General and UN system leaders committed to a zero-tolerance approach to tackling sexual harassment, to strengthening victim-centred prevention and response efforts...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Artificial Intelligence

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...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Beyond GDP

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...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Biodiversity

Living in harmony with nature is more important than ever. The scientific community has repeatedly sounded the alarm on biodiversity breakdown and the climate emergency. Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history; the rate of species extinctions is exponentially higher than at any time in the past 10 million...

• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Business Operations

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.

• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)

Climate Change

Climate Change is the defining issue of our time and we are at a defining moment. From shifting weather patterns that threaten food production, to rising sea levels that increase the risk of catastrophic flooding, the impacts of climate change are global in scope and unprecedented in scale. Without drastic action today, adapting to...

• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Coordination with other UN Mechanisms

The United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) is the main instrument for supporting and reinforcing the coordinating role of the United Nations intergovernmental bodies on social, economic and related matters. Its work is fully aligned with the priorities of the Member States.

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

COVID-19 Response

Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, the High Level Committee on Management, through its Networks, has conducted an intense activity of coordination among all CEB member organizations to develop and put in place a set of common and consistent measures, policies and administrative guidelines aimed at supporting strategic guidance...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)
• Digital & Technology Network (DTN)

Cybersecurity

The interconnected nature of modern society accelerates commerce, opens vast opportunities for development and connects individuals across the globe on an unprecedented scale. However, the same technologies that Governments, private sector enterprises and a growing proportion of the world’s population depend upon every day also bring...

• Chief Executives Board (CEB)
• High-Level Committee on Programmes (HLCP)
• High-Level Committee on Management (HLCM)

Data and Statistics

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.