This report is intended to inform the Board on progress related to mandates given to the Secretariat from the first meeting of the Board, August 2012, to the fifteenth meeting of the Board, December 2016, excluding those mandates on which the Secretariat is reporting, or has previously reported to the Board in relevant agenda items or documents. This report is, therefore, not an exhaustive reflection of all the Secretariat’s activities. The report notes progress as at the cut-off date of 31 October 2016 since the last meeting of the Board on 12- 14 October 2016.