Criteria for WHO participation in meetings
1. Essential Information
- Title of meeting/event
- Subject matter/Agenda
- Place/Date
- Gender/geographical perspective
2. Criteria for participation/attendance
- Political agenda: what has WHO to gain from participating
- Value of meeting for WHO strategic approach either for mitigation of impact of crises on health issues or the response in upcoming or ongoing crises.
- Value of organizers/other participation
- EHA (co)organizer
- Representation and steering the agenda
- Official participation in Networks because WHO is a member
- Alliances/partnerships
- Intelligence (or to understand from the others what is going on)
- Technical Expertise: what has WHO to add/learn by participating
- Personal expertise/skills/work plan to be transferred to other colleagues
- Facilitating work of others
- Channelling of WHO expertise
- Exploring new areas that might be relevant to our work
- Advocacy
- Advocacy for health issues
- Coordination
- IASC processes/partnerships
- Contribution to the meeting
- Priority area of work
- Resource mobilization
- Added value in view of networking/lobbying
- Is WHO requested to make a presentation, or a statement, etc.?
- Elements of cost, beside staff time ( not only the time cost, but alternative uses of time foregone)
- Possibility of representation by others, e.g. WHO Departments/regional/country offices, discussed/approved
- Availability of funds/human resources to cover participation
3. Proposal