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Lebanon launched the National Good Governance for Medicines Framework
26 June 2009

On 26 June 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health in collaboration with the World Health Organization officially launched the national framework on good governance for medicines programme. A national stakeholders meeting was held under the patronage of HE Minister of Public Health, Dr Jawad Khalife.

The purpose of this event was to share the GGM framework with a larger group of stakeholders and make it publicly available for feedback prior to its finalization. Speakers were from the WHO country office team, from the MOPH team and from the Lebanese good governance for medicines steering committee and task force.

With the success of this event, Lebanon moved the national good governance for medicines programme forward to Phase III, which involves an institutional learning process in the application of new administrative procedures for increased transparency/accountability and the development of leadership capabilities in the public pharmaceutical sector.

With that, Lebanon is the second Eastern Mediterranean Region country to enter phase III of the WHO Good Governance for Medicines programme. The complexity of phase III stems partly from the integration of policy and regulatory functions of national authorities with the behavior change and socialization aspects of promoting integrity in the public sector. WHO will continue to provide technical support to the national GGM team.