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- Title
Assessment of World Health Organization Collaborating Centres in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
- Authors
Mandil, Ahmed; ElFeky, Samar; Rashidian, Arash
- Abstract
Following in-house training, there was a need for assessing perceived performance of World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating centres in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, with special relevance to WHO's programme of work. Thus, a questionnaire was shared with responsible officers covering: selection process, frequency of communication, monitoring mechanisms, key delivered activities, and identified gaps during implementation. These included: tendency to implement regular activities, weak technical capacity and communication, and discrepancies between planned activities and actual implementation. Recommendations for centres included: establishing communication plan/modalities, selecting activities of global/regional nature, and mobilizing resources for work plan implementation. Recommendations for responsible officers included: carefully explaining updated WHO rules and regulations; ensuring that specific terms of reference are set as per WHO's global/regional mandates; setting up regular communication mechanisms; agreeing on regular monitoring and coordination modalities; and ensuring that redesignation planning takes place during the 4th year of prior designation period.
- Subjects
MEDITERRANEAN Region; COMMUNICATION; HEALTH services administration; QUESTIONNAIRES; WORLD Health Organization; REGULATORY approval
- Publication
Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, 2017, Vol 23, Issue 10, p711
- ISSN
1020-3397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26719/2017.23.10.711