Article 11 – South-South project to support the adoption of plain package

Provider
Recipient
Triangular
Outcome
 
Uruguay Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Thailand Convention Secretariat

The Center for International Cooperation on Tobacco Control (ICCT)

WHO

UNDP
Strengthened recipient countries’ capacity to developing tobacco plain packaging laws, as well as increased awareness on legal issues in policy design or legal defense of plain packaging laws.

Improved data gathering at national level on the required aspects such as legislation (intellectual property, constitutionality and lawfulness of the legislation, etc.), impact of the measure in the country.

Facilitated networking and information sharing.

The project members participated in a meeting organized by WHO-PND and the Convention Secretariat which took place on 2-4 October 2017 in Geneva