Kyrgyzstan WHO FCTC Needs Assessment

Kyrgyzstan ratified the WHO FCTC on 25 May 2006. The Convention entered into force for the Kyrgyz Republic on 23 August 2006. A needs assessment exercise for implementation of the WHO FCTC was conducted jointly by the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Convention Secretariat, from April to July 2012, including the initial analysis of the status, challenges and potential needs deriving from the country’s most recent implementation report and other sources of information, and the mission of an international team from the Convention Secretariat, WHO, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Finnish Lung Health Association to Kyrgyzstan on 18–22 June 2012.