PAN
AMERICAN
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
WORLD
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION
20th DIRECTING COUNCIL
23rd SESSION OF THE REGIONAL COMMITTEE
Washington D.C., 27 September – 8 October 1971
RESOLUTION
CD20.R16
PROPOSED PROGRAM AND BUDGET ESTIMATES OF THE WHO
FOR THE REGION OF THE AMERICAS, 1974
THE 20th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Having considered the Proposed Program and Budget Estimates of the World Health Organization
for the Region of the Americas for 1972 and 1973, as set out in Official Document 107;
Having taken note of the recommendations1 of the Executive Committee as its 66th Meeting,
which were the basis for operative paragraph 2 of Resolution XI adopted by this Council, requesting
the Director-General to give favorable consideration to increasing the proportion assigned to the
Region of the Americas; and
Considering the program proposals set forth in Document CD20/23, as well as the narrative
statements of the projects and the criteria for priorities set out in Document CD20/21, Add. I.
RESOLVES
1. To request the Director-General to give favorable consideration to increasing the proportion
assigned to the Region of the Americas, recognizing that this request should not imply a
2. To recommend to the Director-General that, within the amount he finds possible to allocate to the
Americas, he include in the proposed program and budget for 1974 the proposal set out in
Document CD20/23, giving due regard to the projects and priorities contained in Document
CD20/21, Add. I.