Table 1 Outcomes of regional policy consultations
| Â | WHO Region | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Item | African | Americas | Eastern Mediterranean | Southeast Asia | Western Pacific |
Type of outcome | Guidelines; Meeting consensus [31] | Meeting consensus [32] | Guidelines [35] | Regional framework [36] | |
Year developed | 2011 | 2011 | 2012 | 2010 | 2012 |
Title | Guidelines on public health pesticide management policy for the WHO African Region; complemented by workshop outputs | Antigua Charter for the sound management of pesticides in public health | Framework for action on the sound management of public health pesticides (2012-2016) | Guidelines on public health pesticide management policy* | Draft Regional framework for action on the sound management of public health pesticides (2012-2016) |
Objectives/recommendations: | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
a. Legislation | Review/revise pesticide legislation | Strengthen legal framework and policy development | Develop comprehensive pesticide policy and legislation | - | Develop comprehensive pesticide policy and legislation |
b. Registration | Strengthen capacity for registration and post-registration monitoring | Monitor and report on registration | Operate an effective pesticide registration scheme | - | Operate an effective pesticide registration scheme |
c. Management practices | Develop capacity for procurement, transport, distribution, storage, and disposal | Improve storage, disposal, exposure reporting, product traceability, and alternative products | Improve procurement, storage, distribution and disposal | - | Improve procurement, storage, distribution and disposal |
d. Quality control | Strengthen laboratories, forge inter-country collaboration | Monitor and report on selection, procurement, and quality control | Improve quality control, post-registration monitoring and enforcement | - | Improve quality control, post-registration monitoring and enforcement |
e. Application | Build capacity for monitoring and evaluation of vector control operations | Training on safe use and application of pesticides | Ensure safe and judicious application of pesticides | - | Ensure safe and judicious application of pesticides |
f. Efficacy testing | - | Monitor pesticide efficacy and resistance | - | - | - |
e. Regional cooperation | - | Improve harmonization of regulations, information sharing | - | - | - |