CD18.R20: Biennial program

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18th DIRECTING COUNCIL

THE 18th DIRECTING COUNCIL,

Having considered the portion of Document CD18/14 that deals with [biennial programming],

including the budgetary cycle of PAHO;

Bearing in mind Resolution WHA21.49 of the Twenty-First World Health Assembly, which

recommended that all Regional Committees give particular attention at their 1968 sessions to

long-term health planning; and

Recalling that during the discussions at the Forty-Second Session of the WHO Executive Board it

was suggested that Regional Committees should consider the desirability of including in future

annual program and budget estimates a proposed program for a further year,

RESOLVES

1. To endorse the proposal for inclusion in the annual WHO program and budget estimates of the

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2. To authorize the Director of the Bureau to include this program projection in the PAHO program

and budget, if this system is adopted by WHO.

3. To request the Director, in this event, to use his best efforts to solve the problem of budget

compilation and format with a view to including the projection for a further year without

eliminating information on the previous and current years now provided in the first two columns of

the budget document.

Oct. 1968 OD 93, 57