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Teema: WHO: C.L.19.2023 (2nd WLPF)
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Dear Member States of the World Health Organization,
Please find attached, in the six official languages, C.L.19.2023 regarding the the second
World Local Production Forum (6-8 November 2023).
Should you have questions regarding C.L.19.2023 please send an email to
[email protected] and
[email protected]).
Best regards,
Department of Governing Bodies
World Health Organization
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Ref.: C.L.19.2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) presents its compliments to Member States and
has the honour to inform them that WHO is organizing the second World Local Production
Forum that will be hosted by the Kingdom of the Netherlands to be held in the Hague,
the Netherlands from 6 to 8 November 2023.
The World Local Production Forum (WLPF) is a WHO initiative to serve as a sustainable
platform enabling Member States and the global community to shape strategies, galvanize
collective action and foster partnerships on sustainable local production, to improve timely and
equitable access. The second WLPF will revolve around carefully selected thematic areas that
drive forward the momentum of efforts of Member States and the global community in
strengthening local production and technology transfer. This Forum will spur discussions on the
significance of local production and technology transfers achieved thus far and approaches to
enhance impact on access and global health security.
The main objectives of the second WLPF include:
a) leveraging on the existing initiatives on promoting local production to foster synergy
and collective action in strengthening sustainable quality local production and
technology transfer;
b) reflecting on the ecosystem and the regional approach of facilitating local production
development to improve access to quality, safe and effective health products and
technologies;
c) discussing key challenges in promoting local production and technology transfer and
exploring opportunities and mechanisms to tackle the bottlenecks and promoting
sustainable local production capacity.
This second WLPF is expected to convene up to 800 participants from all over the world
including relevant ministers and senior level government officials of Member States, UN agency
representatives, associations of manufacturers, academia and other stakeholders. The Forum will
also be virtually accessible for participants who could not attend it physically.
Member States are invited to nominate no later than 31 July 2023 through the registration
platform (Link to the registration form) up to two most relevant senior level representatives and
decision makers to participate in person in the 2nd WLPF. If Member States wish to nominate
more than two participants, the WLPF Secretariat will make every effort to accept the extra
representatives on a first come first serve basis considering seat availability. The WLPF
Secretariat would like to encourage the participation of eligible countries classified as
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Least Developed Countries (LDC) by the United Nations (https://unctad.org/topic/least-
developed-countries/list) by providing a return ticket in economy class to one representative per
LDC. Nominees should be interested and/or involved in the national policy, regulation,
administration, financing, production and procurement sectors related to local production and
technology transfer of medicines and other health technologies as applicable to their country
context.
Any queries can be addressed to the WLPF Secretariat, Dr Jicui Dong, Unit Head of the
Local Production and Assistance Unit at
[email protected] with a copy to
[email protected].
The World Health Organization takes this opportunity to renew to Member States the
assurance of its highest consideration.
GENEVA, 2 June 2023