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Week of
May 4, 2026
WFP Executive Board
receives a briefing on the 2027-2029 iteration of the Management Plan on 6 May 2026.
Key reform initiatives under discussion
WFP's Management Plan provides unique insights into how the organization navigates changes in income, earmarking, strategic funding instruments for anticipatory action, needs assessments and planning assumptions to deliver. Although complex, it provides member states with a realistic understanding of the complexities of managing different funding streams, which can help facilitate effective decision-making. Check out our previous analysis for more info: https://www.reformworks.org/post/wfp-management-plan
Week of
April 27, 2026
The Rome-based governing bodies of FAO, IFAD and WFP
hold their annual joint informal meeting on 27 April 2026 to discuss a renewal and scaling up of their collaboration in fragile settings.
Key reform initiatives under discussion
Under the UN80 New Humanitarian Compact, the United Nations recognizes the importance of the Rome-based agencies’ robust alignment to maximizing their collective impact on food security in fragile settings, particularly given that food insecurity is reaching record levels. The joint informal meeting with be briefed on efforts to realize operational efficiencies and strengthen strategic collaboration globally and at country level, including through data sharing and joint analysis anchored within existing data systems and United Nations sustainable development cooperation frameworks (UNSDCFs) and by advancing the Humanitarian Reset and locally led, context-specific approaches.
Week of
March 30, 2026
Informal Adhoc Working Group (on UN80)
obtained General Assembly approval of the Mandate Review Resolution on 31 March with 168 votes in favor. Russia called for a recorded vote and voted against the resolution.
Key reform initiatives under discussion
The resolution (A/RES/80/251) sets out principles to guide mandate creation, implementation and reviews, and proposes a continuation of the Working Group for another year from 1 May 2026 with two new co-chairs. The next iteration of the working group would have concrete tasks to develop criteria, templates and models for the mandate processes set out in the resolution; consider the SG's review of inactive, duplicative, or fully implemented mandates; and receive the SG's proposals for collective mandate reviews.
Week of
March 23, 2026
The UNGA's 5th Committee
concluded its first resumed session on 27 March 2026, deferring consideration of potential solutions to the recurring liquidity crisis until the second resumed session.
Key reform initiatives under discussion
Several changes to the financial rules and regulations were proposed by the Secretary-General to alleviate the liquidity pressures on the UN Secretariat when member states pay their assessed funding late or not at all. In the absence of agreement on these or any other solutions, these issues will be considered at the second resumed session starting in May. In addition, the Fifth Committee deferred consideration of the proposal for a new internship programme, which would include financial support for unpaid interns until next year. This is the second time that the Fifth Committee has been unable to find agreement on the internship programme and deferred it.