Rules of procedure of the governing bodies
Report by the Director-General on WHO reform: governance – advance draft
Consultation document on the Rules of Procedure
Compilation of comments
At the meeting between the Director-General and the Officers of the Executive Board on 31 July – 1 August 2017, the Officers of the Board recommended that Member States be requested to contribute their views on the roles and methods of work of the Executive Board and its Officers, with a view to improving efficiency and equity in decision-making.
In decision WHA69(8) (2016), the Director-General was requested, “to prepare an analysis of the current Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board and Rules of Procedure of the World Health Assembly in order to identify interpretational ambiguities and gaps in the processes for the inclusion of additional, supplementary and urgent agenda items and to make recommendations on the further improvement of those processes; and to report to the Seventy-first World Health Assembly through the Executive Board”.
In decision EB141(8) (2017) on governance reform: follow-up to decision WHA69(8), the Board requested, “that the Secretariat’s analysis of current Rules of Procedure of the Executive Board and Rules of Procedure of the World Health Assembly in respect of additional, supplementary and urgent items, to be prepared in accordance with decision WHA69(8), also address other ambiguities, gaps and other shortcomings in the Rules of Procedure of the governing bodies”.
In accordance with these mandates, the Secretariat has developed the consultation document identifying several ambiguities, gaps and other shortcomings in the Rules of Procedure of the governing bodies for electronic consultation with Member States.
The Secretariat invited Member States to submit comments on the document to the following email address:
governancereform@who.int by the 15th of September 2017.
All Member State comments submitted are published in the original language on this website.
Contributions could be submitted in any of the six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
The Secretariat plans to convene an informal consultation on the document at WHO headquarters which will be also accessible via WebEX on 21 September 2017. Member States will shortly be invited in this regard.
