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Consultation Follow up to decision WHA69(8) on Governance reform
World Health Assembly decision WHA69(8) requested “the Director General, in consultation with Member States and taking into account previous Member State discussions, to develop by the end of October 2016, proposals to improve the level of correspondence between the number of items on the provisional agendas of the governing bodies and the number, length and timing of their sessions, including the financial implications of proposed options, for consideration by the Seventieth World Health Assembly through the 140th session of the Executive Board."

In this regard, the Secretariat has developed the following document containing proposals for electronic consultation with Member States: Consultation Draft.

Member States are invited to submit comments on the document to Dr Timothy Armstrong, Director, Department of Governing Bodies by sending them by email to the following dedicated email address: governancereform@who.int by 28 October 2016. All comments received from Member States are available in the following document: Compilation of comments
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