WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION MONDIALE ORGANIZATION DE LA SANT~

REGIONAL OFFICE FOR THE WESTERN PACIFIC BUREAU REGIONAL DU PACIFIQUE OCCIDENTAL c

REGIONAL COMMI'ITEE \·rp/RC1 S/6 15 Fifteenth Session Manila 17-22 September 1964 ORIGlliIAL: ENGLISH

Provisional agenda item 13

GENERAL PROGRAMME OF WORK COVERlliIG A SPECIFIC PERIOD

1. INTRODUCTION

1.1 Article 2B(g) of the l-mO Constitution requires the Executive Board "to submit to the Health Assembly for consideration and approval a general progrB.llDlle of work covering a specific period".

1.2 The drafting of a general progrB.llDlle of vTOrk is one of the important constitutional functions of the Executive Board. This programme estab­ lishes, in general terms and in accordance with the principles laid down by the Constitution, the framework within which the annual activities must be fitted in order to ensure rational development of the Organiza­ tion's work during the period considered. The successive programmes of work form, in turn, a sequence showing the over-all development of the Organization's health policy over a longer period.

1.3 Under the terms of resolution WHA8.10, the Eighth \Vorld Health Assembly recommended that "it would be desirable for each regional committee to formulate va thin the programme provided a general programme of work for the region concerned".

2. CHRONOLOGY OF THE FIRST TVlO PROGRAMMES

So far, two programmes have been adopted for the Region, the chronology of 'which is as follows:

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It will be noted that the period initially fixed was four years but that the first programme was extended for one year, thus covering the same period. as the third. general programme of ,rork ad.op"eed by the Assembly.

3. :/.fAIN HEADS OF THE PROGRAl-1lvIE

The second programme of vork for the Region ,las designed to secure its adequate integration into the general programme of worl, ad.opted by the Assembly. A copy is attached for reference purposes. In spite of slight changes in form, its content is very similar to that of the first programme.

4. FUl'URE R&;IONAL PROGRAMME OF WORK

4.1 The second regional programme covers the same period as that initially fixed for the third programme of work adopted by the Assembly and will, therefore, expire at the end. of 1965. In 1>1arch 1964, hovrever, the Seventeenth World Health Assembly, on the recommendation of the Executive Board, decided to extend the Piriod of the third. general programme of work until the end of 1966.

4.2 It is, therefore; suggested that the Regional Committee may also wish to extend its programme so that it covers the same period.

lResolution WHAl7.38