Third World Network reports: New Delhi, 20 July (K M Gopakumar) – Member States of the World Health Organization have decided to continue the negotiations on a Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA) as several key issues remain unresolved.
The second Open-ended Intergovernmental Meeting (OEIGM) was held 8-10 July at the WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva.
The 68th World Health Assembly in May 2015 through a resolution requested the Director-General “to convene as soon as possible, and no later than October 15, an open-ended intergovernmental meeting to finalize the draft framework of engagement with non-State actors on the basis of progress made during the Sixty-eighth World Health Assembly.”
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TWN Info Service on Health Issues (Jul15/02)
17 July 2015
WHO: Concerns that “official relations” are used for promoting business interests
Geneva, 16 July (TWN) – The collaboration work plan that the World Health Organization (WHO) entered into with some non-State actors reveals that it will be used to pursue business interests.
This work plan is necessary to establish an official relationship with the WHO. Until recently collaboration work plans between non-governmental organisations and WHO were not available in the public domain. Only in 2015 did WHO remove the restricted status of the documentation submitted for the consideration of the Standing Committee on Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) on the basis of a proposal made at the 134th session of the Executive Board. This is in paragraph 28 of EB 134 /8: http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/EB134/B134_8-en.pdf).
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