CD22.R19: Financing of the regular budget of the PAHO

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22nd DIRECTING COUNCIL

25th SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE

THE 22nd DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having examined the report of the Group of Experts for the Study of Supplemental Financing to the

Quota Contributions of the Member Governments, annexed to Document CD22/12;

Recognizing the need to supplement the financing of the budgets of the Organization without

involving any additional commitment on the part of the countries; and

Considering that the efforts that have been made by the Organization to obtain extrabudgetary

funds have been very successful, since such funds represent approximately 30 per cent of the total

resources of PAHO,

RESOLVES

1. To express its appreciation to the members of the Group of Experts for the report it has presented

and to the Director of the Bureau for his unremitting efforts to obtain extrabudgetary funds.

2. To request the Director to appoint a select group of consultants to advise him on ways and means

of getting industrial, university, nongovernmental, and intergovernmental institutions to collaborate

in PAHO-assisted programs, this group to study, inter alta, the possibility of establishing a health

fund based on loans or subsidies which would supplement, but not compete with, existing loan

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