Collaboration Between NGOs, Ministries of Health and WHO in Drug Distribution and Supply

Collaboration Between NGOs, Ministries of Health and WHO in Drug Distribution and Supply - EDM Research Series No. 027
(1998; 61 pages)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements
	Acronyms and abbreviations
	Executive summary
	1. Introduction
		1.1 Current relations between WHO/HQ programmes and NGOs
		1.2 Changing relations between WHO, MoHs and NGOs at country level
	2. Methods
		2.1 An NGO typology
	3. Results
		3.1 International study
		3.2 WHO/HQ programme policies on collaboration with NGOs
		3.3 NGO perspectives on collaboration with WHO/HQ programmes
		3.4 Conclusions for WHO/HQ analysis
		3.5 Recommendations to WHO/HQ programmes
	4. Country studies: Kenya, Malawi, Uganda
		4.1 NGOs and drug distribution and supply in the three countries
		4.2 What WHO can offer NGOs at country level
		4.3 Initiating collaboration between NGOs and WHO at country level
		4.4 Conclusions of the country studies
		4.5 Recommendations for WHO and NGOs at country level
	5. Discussion
	Annex 1. Questions discussed with WHO/HQ programmes concerning NGOs and drug distribution and supply
	Annex 2. Themes discussed with international NGOs
	Annex 3. Themes discussed with stakeholders in Kenya, Malawi and Uganda
	Annex 4. List of persons met
	Annex 5. Criteria to be met by NGOs when collaborating with UNICEF in Kenya
	References

3. Results

This analysis of collaboration between NGOs, MoHs and WHO in drug distribution and supply concentrated on:

• international vs. country-level collaboration;
• NGOs in official relations with WHO vs. NGOs in informal relations with WHO.

All relations based on a written agreement between an international NGO and WHO and adopted by the Executive Board of WHO are defined as official relations. All other forms of WHO relations with NGOs are seen as informal.

The regional level is considered only very briefly in this analysis. The focus is on WHO programmes at country level, and the interaction between these, MoHs and NGOs involved in drug distribution and supply.