Articles 9 & 10 – National Tobacco Testing Laboratories

Provider
Recipient
Triangular
Outcome
 
IndiaAfghanistan, Fiji, Ghana, Iraq, Kenya, Thailand, Uruguay Convention Secretariat of the WHO FCTC

Global Knowledge Hub on Smokeless Tobacco (India)

WHO tobacco laboratories network (WHO Global Regulators forum, TobReg and WHO TobLabNet)

Strengthened the technical tobacco control capacity of recipient countries towards analytical testing and regulatory mechanisms, in line with the aims and objectives of the WHO FCTC tobacco products regulation provisions, through the South-south and Triangular cooperation.

Prepared a step-by-step guide book with different scenarios, for the countries to be used.

The guide book will include recommendations about:

- how to establish a testing laboratory (starting from the scratch);

- how to create necessary awareness about prioritization of needs for testing;

- how to prioritize needs for testing.

Established a virtual platform to provide assistance to recipient countries in the future in case they need.