The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean held the third intercountry workshop on the Child Health Policy Initiative (CHPI) in Tunis, Tunisia, from 10 to 13 December 2006.
The objectives of the workshop were to:
- review the progress of development of the national child health policy documents in four countries (Egypt, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia) and prepare plans for their official endorsement at the highest political level in the country
- review the progress of development of the child health situation analysis reports – representing the evidence guiding the development of the policy document – in five countries (Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Pakistan and the Syrian Arab Republic) and prepare plans for the development of the national child health policy documents
- introduce the CHPI to three new countries (Islamic Republic of Iran, occupied Palestinian territory and Yemen).