PHA-Exchange> [Fwd: WHO DG: The selection process]

[Community Health Cell]

BTS wrote:

> [Moderators note: BTS has learned that Sir Djamil Fareed, from Mauritius,
> has also withdrawn his candidacy from the WHO DG selection process –
> leaving seven remaining candidates].
>
> WHO DG: The selection process
> HDN Moderation Team
> *****************************
>
> With secret ballots and closed-door meetings to select the next WHO DG,
> you could be forgiven for thinking you were in a corporate boardroom and
> not that of the World Health Organization.
>
> We have reviewed the essential maze of official WHO documents and
> regulations describing the selection process and summarised them below.
> Remaining steps will all be taking place during the next week at the WHO
> Executive Board (EB) meeting in Geneva.
>
> Government nominations:
> ***********************
>
> Governments were required to submit nominations for the position before 19
> November 2002. Each proposal had to be accompanied by a curriculum vitae
> (two to three pages long) that included a statement on the vision of the
> candidate on priorities and strategies for WHO.
>
> General selection criteria:
> ***************************
>
> The guidelines circulated by WHO state that any candidate should have:
>  - a strong technical and public health background and extensive
> experience in international health;
>  - competency in organizational management;
>  - proven historical evidence for public health leadership;
>  - sensitiveness to cultural, social and political differences;
>  - a strong commitment to the work of WHO;
>  - the good physical condition required of all staff members of the
> Organization; and
>  - sufficient skill in at least one of the official and working languages
> of the Executive Board and Health Assembly.
>
> Remaining steps to take place in the next week or so:
> *****************************************************
>
> When the Executive Board session convenes (from today onwards), it will
> deal with the nomination process in four different stages:
>
> (i) Initial screening of candidates to determine whether any candidate
> does not meet the criteria described above;
>
> (ii) Determination of a short list of five candidates by a secret ballot
> of EB members (most likely to happen on Tuesday 21st January);
>
> (iii) Interviewing of the candidates
>
> Each interview will last not more than 60 minutes. It will be equally
> divided between: (a) an oral presentation of the candidate’s vision of the
> future priorities for WHO with an analysis of current problems facing it
> and suggestions as to how those should be addressed, and (b) a
> question-and-answer period.
> However, if there are insufficient questions to fill the allotted time,
> the candidate may make such additional statements as desired until the end
> of the period set for the interview. Nevertheless, the total time of 60
> minutes may not be exceeded.
>
> (iv) Voting on the candidate to be nominated
>
> The vote is conducted by secret ballot among the 32 EB members. Each
> member places the name of one candidate on his or her ballot paper. If no
> candidate receives the simple majority required of members present and
> voting [e.g., 17 if all 32 members are present], the candidate receiving
> the least number of votes is eliminated at each ballot until one candidate
> receives a majority.
>
> In addition to deciding on the nomination of a candidate, the Board will
> also propose a draft contract, establishing the terms and conditions of
> appointment, salary and other benefits attached to the job of DG. For this
> purpose the Board will have before it a proposed draft which reflects
> previous contracts [this contract – without specific salary details - is
> available on the WHO website: www.who.int]. The duration of the contract
> is already fixed at five years.
>
> All four of the remaining stages described above will be held in private –
> which means the sessions are limited to the 32 Board members, their
> alternates and advisers, and necessary WHO Secretariat staff.
>
> [Note – extracts from at least three of the ‘position papers’ to be
> presented by candidates during their interviews will be distributed to BTS
> members over the next few days]
>
> HDN Moderation Team
> Email: break-the-silence at hdnet.org
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