Final evaluation of the WHO Country Cooperation Strategy Thailand: 2012––2016

Overview

The WHO CCS originally had five priority programmes: community health systems, multisectoral networking for Noncommunicable Disease (NCD) control, disaster management, international trade and health, and road safety. In addition, the normative functions of WHO, the unfinished agenda of major public health challenges, and Thailand’s role outside its own borders were part of the CCS. At midterm, community health was dropped from the CCS and two priority programmes were added – border and migrant health and ageing. The working methods of the CCS involved the selection of a lead agency and a management structure that included an overall steering committee, subcommittees for each programme, peer review, annual audits and midterm and final evaluations. The lead agencies were all in the health sector but outside the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and the subcommittees were all designed to have multisectoral and multistakeholder representation.