OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

The Department of Governing Bodies (GBS) serves as WHO's central platform for advancing strategic governance and multilateral engagement. The Department provides high‑level political and strategic support to Member States, including in sensitive contexts, ensuring the consistent application of protocol and health diplomacy in intergovernmental relations. It coordinates WHO's response to governance‑related matters across all three levels of the Organization, maintains the institutional memory of WHO's governing bodies, and ensures the effective functioning of the World Health Assembly, the Executive Board, and related intergovernmental processes. Within GBS, the Language Services Unit (LNG) provides high‑quality, timely and cost‑effective translation, interpretation, editing, official records, word processing and online services for the whole Organization, so as to make WHO health policy and technical information accessible to its target audien...