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​The Council Working Group for strategic and financial plans 2028-2031 (CWG-SFP), created by Council Resolution 1428 (C24), aims to develop the draft Strategic and Financial Plans for consideration by the 2026 session of the Council and presentation by the Council to the Plenipotentiary Conference to take place in 2026 (PP-26). The CWG-SF​P, open to Member States and S​ector Members, has the following Terms of Referen​​​ce (ToR):​

​​​​​a) ​to identify, with the assistance of the Secretary-General, the Deputy Secretary-General and the Directors of the Bureaux, sources of information to be used in the development of the draft Plans;

b) to consider the report on the implementation of the “One ITU" concept (see Document C24/17), including the inputs received during the 2024 session of the Council, to develop the draft Strategic Plan and to report back to the 2026 Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-26);

c) to develop draft Strategic and Financial Plans for presentation to the 2026 session of the Council;... See complete ToR under Resolution 1428.

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Fourth meeting: from 12 to 14 (a.m.) January 2026
- Invitation letter CL-25/44
- NEW!! Registration
- Draft agenda​ (available in due course)
- NOW AVAILABLE: Official template​​ 
- Official contributions/documents (no documents yet)
- Information documents (INF) / temporary documents (DT)
- Webcast live / Webcast archives (TIES protected)​

IMPORTANT NOTE: The deadline for inputs on the draft situational analysis for the ITU Strategic and Financial Plan 2028-2031​ is 10 October 2025. Please send comments and suggestions to strategy@itu.int​.

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Third meeting: 8-9 September 2025, ITU HQ
Initially scheduled for two and a half days, the Group finally ended its work 
on 9 September 2025:
- Invitation letter CL-25/32​
- Official contributions/documents
- Information documents​ (INF) / Temporary Documents​  (DT)
- Final list of present participants​ (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives​​​ (TIES protected)​

As part of the CWG-SFP meeting, a​ Strategic Foresight Workshop —organized in collaboration with UN Future Labs— was held onsite on the afternoon of Monday, 8 September 2025, in the Montbrillant Lobby:
  -   Agenda
  -   Concept note
  -   Background document

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Second meeting: 20-21 February 2025, ITU HQ
​- Invitation letter CL-24/67
- Official documents/contributions​
- Information documents​ (INF) / Limited distribution​ (DL)
- Final list of present participants​ (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives​​​ (TIES protected)​
​​​As agreed during the first CWG-SFP meeting, a workshop on strategic planning took place on Friday, 21 February 2025.

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The virtual meeting on the preliminary amount of the contributory unit was held on Wednesday, 15 January 2025.
The PowerPoint presentation of the meeting is available here.​

First meeting: 10-11 October 2024, ITU HQ
​- Invitation letter CL-24/43
- Official documents/contributions
- Information documents (INF)
- Final list of present participants (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)​