Kathmandu, Jan. 22: – A five-day WHO Inter-country Workshop on Project Formulation Skill Development for Mobilization of External Resource for Health Development began here today amidst a function graced by Dr. B.D. Chataut, Director General of the Department of Health Services. The workshop is being organised by WHO in collaboration with the DANIDA Training Center, Copenhagen and attended by participants from Bangladesh, Bhutan, DPR Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Addressing the function, Director General Dr. B.D. Chataut said that this workshop has come along at the right time when there is a strong felt need for mobilizing resources for the health sector from the external sources.

Earlier, Dr. Klaus Wagner, the WHO Representative to Nepal, welcomed all distinguished participants to the Himalayan Kingdom and expressed his hope that this workshop would be able to achieve the objectives it intended for. “We need to prepare technical sound proposals so that donors can decide whether or not to fund them, being totally accountable to their taxpayers and recognising the value for money they would provide,” he said.