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UNESCO. Executive Board. Special Committee
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- UNESCO. Conseil exécutif. Comité spécial
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1967-
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The Special Committee is a permanent body of the Executive Board that addresses the methods and machinery of the evaluation of UNESCO's activities, relations with the UN Joint Inspection Unit, and the organization of the work of the General Conference and the Executive Board.
Prior to its establishment as a permanent body, ad hoc committees were established at sessions from 1957 to 1967.
It is currently composed of 18 members, three from each electoral group of member states as defined by the General Conference. The Special Committee meets as frequently as needed to fulfill the duties required of it by the Board.
The Special Committee has had the following chairmen: F. Sarrûf (1969-1970); A. Wagner de Reyna (1971-1972); N. Leblanc (1973-1974); L. Boissier-Palun (1975-1976); J. Ki-Zerbo (1977-1978); A. Porter (1979-1980); H. Søndergaard (1981-1983); I. Margan (1984-1985); J. Israel Vargas (1986-1987); M. El-Khatib (1988-1989); A. Sayyad (1990-1991); C. Bernheim (1992-1993); L. Todd (1994-1995); A. Ahsan (1996-1997); H. Nachabé (1998-1999); K. Mokhele (2000-2001); L. Despradel (2002-2003); L. Singhvi (2004-2005); S. Hanna-El-Daher (2006-2007); S. Ali (2008-2009); and, I. Rabenoro (2010-2011).
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The functions of the Special Committee are:
-to study, in depth, the important matters regarding the execution of the programme arising out of the Director-General’s periodical reports and other similar relevant reports relating to past activities, in particular, inspection reports emanating from UNESCO or from the United Nations to the extent that they affect UNESCO, evaluation reports, final reports on UNDP projects carried out by UNESCO, reports on decisions taken within the United Nations system affecting the execution of UNESCO’s programme but which do not call for early action by the Board, it being understood that the results of the Board’s intensified examination of the execution of the programme made possible by this preparatory study should be conveyed to the General Conference within the framework of the Board’s comments on the Director-General’s reports, which the Chairman of the Executive Board presents to the General Conference;
-to carry out such studies regarding the methods of work of the Organization as have hitherto been carried out by the Special Committee (Ad Hoc Committee) and that may arise in the future;
-to undertake preparatory work on the arrangements for sessions of the General Conference; and,
-to report to the Executive Board on its work as set forth above.
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15 C/Resolution 33.3
82 EX/Decision 3.1
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Created by AWT 11/05/2011.
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UNESCO. (2010). The Executive Board of UNESCO. 15th edition. SCX/2010/BROCH/CONSEIL EXECUTIF. UNESCO: Paris. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001874/187438E.pdf