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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.

​CWG-FHR and CWG-SFP Joint meeting (physical with remote participation): Monday, 27 April 2026, 1430-1730 hours, Room C
   Register here!
- Invitation Letter CL-26/6
- Draft agenda (to be published soon)
- Official documents (no documents yet)
- Webcast live / Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)

Fifth meeting: Monday, 27 April 2026, 0930-1230 hours, Room C
- Invitation Letter CL-26/6
- Draft agenda (to be published soon)
- Official contributions/documents (no documents yet)
- Information (INF) / temporary ​(DT) documents (no documents yet)
- Webcast live / Webcast archives​​ (TIES protected)​​

Fourth meeting: 12-14 January 2026, ITU HQ
- Invitation letter CL-25/44
- Official contributions/documents
- Information documents (INF) / temporary documents​ (DT)
- Final list of present participants​ (TIES protected)
- Webcast archives​ (TIES protected)​

The deadline for inputs on the draft situational analysis for the ITU Strategic and Financial Plan 2028-2031​ was 10 October 2025.

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

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 21 February 2025.

The virtual meeting on the preliminary amount of the contributory unit was held on 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)​