Biennial programming (Resolution)

REPORT OF THE REGIONAL CCMtIITl'EE 25 6. REQUESTS the Regional Director to keep the Regional Committee regularly informed of developments related to the long-range planning and evaluation of WHO programmes and to formulate a plan involving health problems which are common in the Region to assist the Director- General in improving and strengthening the system of long-tem planning on a global scale. \vPR Handb.Res., 5th ed., 1.1.2 Sixth meeting, 8 October 1968 WPR/RCI9.R7 BIENNIAL PROGRAMMING The Regional Committee, 1 Bearing in mind resolution VlF.A21.49 of the Twenty-first World Health Assembly ,~hich recommended all regional committees to give particular attention, at their 1968 sessions, to long-tem health planning: Recalling that during the discussions at the forty-second session of the Executive Board it was suggested that regional committees should consider the desirability of including in future annual programme and budget estimates a proposed programme for the year thereafter; Endorsing the concept of a proposed plan of biennial program- ming drawn up on a base that is as fully costed as possible; Having considered the information on this subject submitted by the Regional Director, 1. BELIEVES that the inclusion in the annual programme and budget 1 Off. Rec. WId HIth Org., 168,24 26 REGIONAL CavJlI1ITl'EE: NINETEENTH SESSION estimates of the Director-General of a programme projection for a further year ahead would be advantageous to both Member govern- ments and the Organization in developing longer-term plans for health programmes; 2. BELIEVES also that budgetary data for the current year, i.e •• the year in i'lhich the programme and budget proposals are prepared, should be retained so that a four-year cycle i'ull be presented; 3. RECOMMENDS that the Director-General, in accordance with opera- tive paragraph 4 of resolution WHA2l.49. include in his report to the forty-third session of the Executive Board the recommendation and the views expressed in this Committee. WPR Handb.Res., 5th ed •• 3.7 Sixth meeting. 8 October 1968 wPR/RC19.R8 HEALTH ASPECTS OF POPUlATION DY1~CS The Regional Committee, Having noted that the Regional Office has programmed a course in health aspects of population dynamics for 1970, 1. EXPRESSES its appreciation that the Regional Office has taken initiative in this important health field; 2. INVITES the Regional Director: (a) to expand further the regional office activities in this field and to promote the integration of these activities into general basic health services programmes when requested by governments; (b) to report to the twentieth session of the Regional Committee on WHO's further activities and plans to assist in this field in the Region. WPR Handb.Res., 5th ed., 1.4.1 (2) Sixth meeting, 8 October 1968