United Nations System Chief Executives Board Secretariat (CEB)

As the successor body to the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), the Chief Executives Board (CEB) furthers coordination and cooperation on a whole range of substantive and management issues facing United Nations system organizations. It brings together, on a regular basis, the executive heads of the organizations of the United Nations system, under the chairmanship of the Secretary General of the United Nations.

As the successor body to the Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), the Chief Executives Board (CEB) furthers coordination and cooperation on a whole range of substantive and management issues facing United Nations system organizations. It brings together, on a regular basis, the executive heads of the organizations of the United Nations system, under the chairmanship of the Secretary General of the United Nations. CEB regularly reviews contemporary political issues and major concerns facing the United Nations system, and on the basis of the recommendations of its reporting bodies, it approves policy statements on behalf of the United Nations system as a whole.

The Board is supported by three High Level Committees, the High-level Committee on Programmes (HLCP), the High-level Committee on Management (HLCM) and United Nations Development Group (UNDG). The division of responsibilities between the three bodies can be summarized as follows: HLCP: Promotion of global policy coherence, including the development of common policy tools, including toolkits, in addition on its work on global policy and programme issues and global public goods; HLCM: Harmonization of business practices across the system, including general management issues, thus ensuring overall management coherence from global to country level; and the UNDG: Promotion of coherent and effective oversight, provision of guidance and capacity-building with country level partners, coordination of United Nations development operations at country level, addressing policy guidance issues related to country level operations, including the implementation of the TCPR resolutions and support to the RC system.