Belarus WHO FCTC Needs Assessment

Overview

The Republic of Belarus ratified the WHO FCTC on 8 September 2005, and the Convention entered into force on 7 December 2005. An international team, led by the Convention Secretariat and including representatives of the WHO Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Department and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), conducted a mission in Minsk, the Republic of Belarus, from 1-3 September 2015.

The assessment involved relevant ministries and agencies of the Republic of Belarus. The mission builds on previous work conducted to the support the work of the government to address noncommunicable diseases and specifically the recommendations and findings of the joint UN interagency task team noncommunicable diseases assessment conducted in July 2014.