AFR/RC20/R11:
The Regional Director,
Having considered the report of the Regional Director, contained in document AFR/RC20/7,
1. NOTES with satisfaction that this document has been drawn up after consultation with the States of the Region as a logical follow-up to the deliberations of the previous sessions, which had given rise to resolutions AFR/RC17/R3, AFR/RC17/R4, AFR/RC18/R4, AFR/RC18/R5 and AFR/RC19/R6;
2. ENDORSES fully the clear, concise and unambiguous report submitted to it and adopts as its own the statements, recommendations and conclusions contained therein;
3. NOTES the difficulties of member States of the Region, and hence those of the Organization in regard to planning;
4. REAFFIRMS that, in the present African social and economic context, the planning process already initiated can only develop and improve gradually;
5. EXPRESSES the wish that the continuous consultation between the Organization and the Member States be further strengthened;
6. RECOMMENDS that the new procedure adopted for the elaboration of the fifth programme of work become the method of choice for all the planning activities of the Organization and REQUESTS Member States to improve their own planning process;
7. CONSIDERS that for the moment the priorities of the Region remain:
(a) education and training;
(b) national health planning;
(c) development of health services, with integrated and effective nutrition, material and child health, health education and statistical services;
(d) communicable disease control; and (e) environmental health in its widest sense;
8. EXPRESSES the wish that the objectives and ways of application of the fifth programme of work be formulate in a realistic manner and one that is sufficiently flexible to leave room for any later assistance that an exceptional situation might call for; and
9. REQUESTS the Regional Director to transmit document AFR/RC20/7 to the Director-General, after inserting in it the information sent to the Regional Office by Member States after its publication.
September 1970, 20, 11
