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The first meeting (July 2013) standardized the operational procedures and submission dossier.
All meetings consist of an open session (with all stakeholders) and a closed session (of VCAG
members and the Secretariat). The second meeting (February 2014) reviewed the first batch
of submissions from innovators, namely eight items belonging to the five different paradigms:
• combination nets for use in areas of pyrethroid resistance (2 submissions);
• microbial control of human pathogens in adult vectors (1 submission);
• spatial repellents (1 submission);
• lethal house lures (1 submission); and
• vector traps for disease management (3 submissions).
By strengthening WHO’s capacity to assess the public-health value of new forms of vector
control and develop appropriate technical recommendations, VCAG supports national and
global efforts to control and eliminate vector-borne diseases worldwide.
Global Collaboration for the Development of Pesticides for Public Health
WHO established the Global Collaboration for the Development of Pesticides for Public
Health (GCDPP), a public–private partnership, in 1997 in response to the need to stimulate the
development of alternative insecticides and application technologies. 1 GCDPP meetings bring
together major stakeholders in pesticide product development and the sound management
of pesticides, including from industry, national and government agencies and programmes,
funding organizations and academic researchers, to discuss and strengthen collaboration
on critical vector control issues. Recent meetings have discussed emerging and re-emerging
vector-borne diseases, dengue surveillance and vector management. The 9th biennial meeting
(September 2014) reviewed insecticide resistance and its monitoring and management.
Capacity strengthening
WHO supports Member States in strengthening their capacity to implement IVM and
pesticide management through training programmes. In 2012–2013, regional IVM courses
were held in India and Malaysia, and capacity strengthening workshops were organized to
devise a national IVM plan in Sudan. To assist vector control programmes in developing and
adopting IVM strategies, WHO has published a handbook on IVM (5), guidance on IVM
policy-making (6), training curricula (7) and indicators for monitoring and evaluation (8).
Training workshops were organized in China and India for pesticide regulatory personnel on
the preparation of pesticide specifications as quality standards, which have been published as
training manuals in collaboration with FAO (9).
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http://www.who.int/whopes/gcdpp/en/