WHO Country Cooperation Strategy Thailand, 2012-2016

Thailand is now a middle-income country (MIC) and has made remarkable progress

in health over the past years. Thailand is also increasingly providing development

support to other countries and is playing a very active role in global and regional health

forums. In view of the achievements, the review findings, the changing landscape and

great challenges ahead, it was agreed to profoundly change the way WHO and the

government collaborate, using a participatory and evidenced-based approach for a

more innovative collaboration in terms of setting strategic priorities for greater impact,

as well as the modalities.

Among the principal outcomes of the process are:

Identification of five priority areas of work for collaboration;

Agreement on key objectives and outcomes/outputs for each priority area;

Identification of key stakeholders, potential implementers, and institutional

coordinators for each priority area;

Consensus among the key public health bodies in Thailand and WHO regarding

modalities of cooperation.