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The World Health Organization's Country
Cooperation Strategy (CCS) for Myanmar, 2002-2005, aims to
provide a basis for the detailed planning and implementation of WHO
collaborative programmes and work plans and also for the prioritization of
resource mobilization from external sources. The WHO CCS will also be shared
with all partners in health for coordination purposes. It has enabled to
identify priority areas in health, to formulate challenges and opportunities
and to plan the WHO functional role in the country according to each priority
area. The development of the WHO CCS for Myanmar involved not only WHO and
the Ministry of Health, but also other U.N. agencies and the partners, who
actively participated in the National CCS Seminar. This was a
innovative approach which should facilitate further planning, collaboration,
coordination and implementation of activities in health of all partners.
WHO has identified the following priority areas for
collaboration over the period 2002-2005:
 health systems;
excess burden of disease;
women’s health / reproductive health;
child and adolescent health;
healthy environment; and
major risk
factors hazardous to health.
A considerable emphasis of WHO's Country Cooperation Strategy in Myanmar is placed on technical
and policy support, building and sustaining partnerships, advocacy, capacity
building, evaluation, dissemination of scientific information, introduction
and testing of new technologies, tools and guidelines, standard setting and
logistics.
The strategic agenda describes the way in
which WHO, on the basis of its six core functions, will work to support the
identified priority areas. This will then constitute the basis for the
budgetary planning exercise for the biennia 2002-2003 and 2004-2005.
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