The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean held the second intercountry workshop on the child health policy initiative (CHPI) in Cairo, Egypt, from 13 to 16 November 2005.
For the five countries which had joined the Regional Office’s Child Health Policy Initiative, namely Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia the objectives of the workshop were to:
- review and discuss the latest steps undertaken by the countries, in order to finalize the first phase of the initiative concerning the child health situation analysis
- endorse the child health situation analysis report
- discuss the steps of the second phase of the CHPI on the development of the policy document
- develop a plan of action to finalize the child policy document.
For four new countries interested in the Initiative, namely Iraq, Jordan, Oman and Pakistan, the objective was to share the experience with them.