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Final Report and Minutes , WHO Regional Committee fpr South-Eost Asiq / Final Report and Minutes Forty-third session, New Delhi, India 18-24 September 1990 WORLD HEALTH ORGANlZATlON Regional Office for South-East Asia New Delhilhi,November 1990 Final Report and M~hutes WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia Final Report and Minutes Forty-third session, New Delhi, India 18-24 September 1990 WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION Rcgional Off~cefor South-East Asia New Delhi. November 1990 CONTENTS Page 'SECTION 1 - REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMHITTEE INTRODUCTION PART I - RESOLUTIONS sEA/Rc~~/R~ Nomination of the Regional Director sEA/Rc~~/R~ Monitoring and Evaluation of the Strategies for Health for All sEA/Rc~~/R~ Women, Health and Development sEA/RC43/R4 Tobacco or Health SWL/RC~~/R~ AIDS sEA/Rc~~/R~ Health of the Underprivileged SEA/Rc43/R7 Forty-second Annual Report of the Regional Director SEA/Rc43/R8 Proposed Programme Budget for 1992-1993 and Report of the Sub-committee on Programme Budget SEA/Rc43/R9 Time and Place of the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Sessions SEA/RC43/RlO Selection of a Topic for the Technical Discussions SEA/Rc43/~11 Resolution of Thanks PART I1 - DISCUSSION ON THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL UPORT OF THE RecIONAL DIRECTOR PART 111 - EXAMINATION OF THE PROPOSED PROGRAMME BUDGET FOR 1992-1993 Page PART IV - DISCUSSIONS ON OTHER l4All'ERS 20 1. Nomination of the Regional Director 20 2. Review of the Draft Provisional Agenda of the Eighty-seventh Session of the Executive Board and of the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly 3. Technical Discussions on Health of the Underprivileged 4. Operational Activities of the United Nations System at the Country Level - A Review in Pursuance of UNGA Resolution 441211 5. Monitoring and Evaluation of Health for All Strategies - A Progress Report on the Second Evaluation 6. AIDS - Update 7. Nomination of a Regional Representative to the Management Committee of the Global Programme on AIDS in Place of Thailand Whose Term Expires at the End of 1990 8. Women, Health and Development 9. WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases 10. WHO Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction 11. Management Advisory Committee (MAC) of the Action Programe on Essential Drugs 12. Consideration of Resolutions of Regional Interest Adopted by the World Health Assembly and the Executive Board 13. Time and Place of Forthcoming Sessions of the Regional Committee 14. Selection of a Subject for the Technical Discussions at the Forty-fourth Session of the Regional Committee ANNEXES 1. List of Participants 2. Agenda Page 3. Report of the Sub-Committee on Programme Budget 4. Recommendations Arising out of the Technical Discussions on Health of the Underprivileged 5. Report of the Eighteenth Meeting of the Consultative Committee for Programme Development and Management 6. List of Official Documents of the Forty-third Session SECTION I1 - MINUTES OF THE SESSION 1. First Meeting, 18 September 1990, 9.30 a.m. 2. Second Meeting, 18 September 1990, 2.30 p.m. 3. Third Meeting, 19 September 1990, 9.00 a.m. 4. Fourth Meeting, 19 September 1990, 3.00 p.m. 5. Fifth Meeting, 21 September 1990, 9.00 a.m. 6. Sixth Meeting, 21 September 1990, 2.30 p.m. 7. Seventh Meeting, 24 September 1990, 9.00 a.m. SECTION I REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE1 loriginally issued as "Draft Final Report of the Forty-third Session of WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia", document S~Af~C43f23,on 22 September 1990 INTRODUCTION The forty-third session of the Regional Committee for South-East Asia was held in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, from 18 to 24 September 1990. It was attended by representatives from the 11 Member Countries of the Region, the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Children's Fund, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, the UN Population Fund and World Food Programme as well as from one intergovernmental organization, 29 nongovernmental organizations having official relations with WHO and by observers from five voluntary agencies. The session was declared open by Dr S.L. Leimena, Chairman of the forty-second session, and was then addressed by Dr U KO KO, Regional Director, by Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, Director-General, WHO, and Mr R. Srinivasan, Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, and currently chairman of the WHO Executive Board. His Excellency Air Chief Marshal (Retd.) Arjan Singh, Lt. Governor of Delhi, inaugurated the meeting. A message from His Excellency Mr Rasheed Masood, Minister of State, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, was read out. A Sub-committee on Credentials, consisting of representatives from DPR Korea, Maldives and Sri Lanka was constituted. The representative of DPR Korea, Dr Kim Yong Ik, was elected Chairman of the Sub-committee, which held one meeting and presented its report (SM/RC43/20), based on which the Regional Committee recognized the validity of the credentials presented by all the representatives. The Regional Committee elected the following office-bearers: Chairman .. Mr M.S. Dayal (India) Vice-chairman .. Dr J. Norbhu (Bhutan) The Committee reviewed the draft provisional agenda of the eighty-seventh session of the Executive Board and of the Forty-fourth World Health Assembly (SEA/RC43/9). It established a Sub-committee on Programme Budget consisting of representatives from all Member Countries present, and adopted its terms of reference (SEA/RC43/4). 2 REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE Under the chairmanship of Dr S.P. Bhattarai (~epal), the Sub- committee held two meetings and submitted a report (SEA/RC43/21). which was endorsed by- the Regional committee (resolution SEA/RC~~/R~). The Committee elected Dr U Tin U (Myanmar) as Chairman of the Technical Discussions on Health of the Underprivileged, and adopted the agenda for these discussions (SEA/RC43/5 and Add.1). The conclusions and recommendations arising out of these discussions, which were held on 20 September 1990, were later presented to the Regional Committee which endorsed the recommendations and adopted a resolution (SEA/RC~~/R~). The Regional Committee met in a private session to consider the item on "Nomination of the Regional Director". Later, at a plenary meeting, the Chairman announced the decision of the Committee to nominate Dr U KO KO for a three-year term from 1 March 1991 (resolution SEA/RC~~/R~). The Director-General of WHO, Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, presented his key-note address on the opening day. A Sub-committee consisting of representatives from Maldives, Mongolia, India, Indonesia and Thailand was formed to draft resolutions. As a result of deliberations in seven plenary meetings, and one private meeting, the Regional Committee adopted 11 resolutions, which have been issued separately in the resolution series, and also incorporated in Part I of this report. The Committee nominated India to the Management Committee of the Global Programme on AIDS, Thailand to the Policy and Coordination Committee of the WHO Special Programme for Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, and Indonesia and Bhutan to the Management Advisory Committee of the Action Programme on Essential Drugs, for one and two years respectively. The Committee decided to hold its forty-fourth session in Maldives in 1991, and noted with appreciation the offer of His Majesty's Government of Nepal to host the forty-fifth session in Nepal in 1992. The Committee decided to hold Technical Discussions on the subject of "Disaster Preparedness" during its forty-fourth session. Part I of the report contains the resolutions adopted by the Committee. Parts 11, I11 and IV of the report are devoted to summaries of the Committee's discussions on important matters. REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE 3 PART I RESOLUTIONS The following eleven resolutions were adopted by the Regional Committee (the references to the 'Handbook' are to the Handbook of Resolutions and Decisions of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia, Volume 2, Ninth edition, 1976-1989, and its supplements): SEA/RC43/R1 NOMINATION OF THE REGIONAL DIRECTOR The Regional Committee, Considering Article 52 of the Constitution, and In accordance with Rule 49 of its Rules of Procedure, 1. NOMINATES Dr U KO KO as Regional Director for South-East Asia, and 2. REQUESTS the Director-General to propose to the Executive Board the appointment of Dr U KO KO for a further period of three years from 1 March 1991. Handbook 2.1.1 Seventh Meeting, 24 September 1990 Page 10 SEA/RC~~/MI~.7 SEA/RC~~/R~ MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF THE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH FOR ALL The Regional Committee, Recalling World Health Assembly resolution WHA34.36 inviting Member States to implement their strategies for health for all and to monitor their progress and evaluate their effectiveness, 4 REPORT OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE Further recalling World Health Assembly resolution WHA42.2 urging Member States to carry out the second evaluation of the strategies in time for the Eighth Report on the World Health Situation, Noting that the final version of the common framework and format for evaluation (WHO/HST/90.1) has already been circulated to all Member States, Appreciating the progress made by the countries of the South-East Asia Region in carrying out the second evaluation of HFA strategies, 1. URGES Member States to: (1) complete the evaluation of HFA strategies using the common framework and format by the target date of 31 January 1991; (2) continue efforts
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