SEA/RC60/R2
MATTERS RELATING TO PROGRAMME DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
The Regional Committee, Having considered document SEA/RC/60/4 on the merging of meeting of Consultative Committee for Programme Development and Management (CCPDM) and Meeting of Health Secretaries (HSM) of the South-East Asia Region, Recalling the establishment of the CCPDM and its terms of reference, as summarized in document SEA/RC/60/4/Inf. Doc, Noting the decision of the 25th Meeting of Health Ministers of the South-East Asia Region that the meetings of the CCPDM and the HSM should be merged, Recognizing that the Programme Budget 2008–2009 covers the first biennium of the Medium-term Strategic Plan for 2008–2013 and 13 Strategic Objectives, Noting that the Programme Budget 2008–2009 has increased the budgetary allocation to the SEA Region by 37.6% compared to the Programme Budget 2006–2007, of which 4.6% consists of an increase in Assessed Contributions and 50.2% of an increase in Voluntary Contributions, Recognizing that the distribution of the regional budget among the 13 Strategic Objectives is based on joint planning undertaken by countries and the Regional Office and which was reviewed in September 2006 by the Senior Working Group established on the recommendation of the fifty-ninth session of the Regional Committee, and Considering the recommendations of the Senior Working Group on Allocation of the Increased Assessed Contributions for the SEA Region for Programme Budget 2008–2009, 1. ESTABLISHES a sub-committee on policy and programme development and management (SPPDM) under Rule 15 of the Rules of Procedure of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia; 2. DECIDES that the SPPDM shall replace the CCPDM and shall be composed of representatives from each Member State of the Region; 3. DECIDES FURTHER that the SPPDM shall provide its views and recommendations to the Regional Committee on the following:
-2(a) The proposed operational plans (workplans) of the country offices and the Regional Office; (b) Implementation status of the Regional Programme Budget and workplans; (c) Resource mobilization efforts and status of funding of the Regional Programme Budget; (d) Performance Assessment of the previous biennium workplans and Regional Programme Budget, as well as other programme evaluations, and (e) Documents and subjects to be discussed at the Regional Committee, such as the proposed agenda, regional implications of the Decisions and Resolutions of the World Health Assembly and Executive Board to be considered, the proposed Regional Programme Budget, the General Programme of Work and the Mediumterm Strategic Plan and other policy and programme issues at the request of the Regional Committee; 4. THANKS the Director-General for the increase in the Programme Budget 2008–2009 for the SEA Region; 5. ENDORSES the recommendation to allocate the increased Assessed Contributions of US$ 4.687 million to the SEA Region as follows: (a) US$ 1 million to the South-East Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund (SEARHEF); (b) The remaining balance of US$ 3.687 million to be divided among the Regional Office (25%), and US$ 2.765 million (75%) to countries, and (c) The amount of US$ 2.765 million to be distributed, pro rata, among the 11 Member countries on the basis of allocation of Assessed Contributions for the 2006–2007 biennium, and 6. REQUESTS the Regional Director: (a) to convene meetings of the Health Secretaries’ Meeting (HSM) as far as possible back-to-back with meetings of the SPPDM, so as to increase the participation of the Member States of the Region, in particular least developed countries; (b) to give priority, to the extent possible, to countries with the greatest need/small budgets in distributing funding in the form of unspecified Voluntary Contributions and enhance efforts to mobilize additional Voluntary Contributions for these countries; (c) to strengthen resource mobilization efforts involving donors in the Region and with headquarters to obtain adequate Voluntary Contributions to implement the workplans, and (d) to develop an appropriate scientific formula for the distribution of resources, including assessed contributions and core voluntary contributions.