CD30.R3 The Directing Council,

 Having considered the document containing guidelines for the promotion of TCDC/ECDC and the report of the 92nd Meeting of the Executive Committee (CD30/15 and Annexes);

 Sharing the conviction that TCDC/ECDC is a basic mechanism for the achievement of health for all by the year 2000; and

 Recognizing that TCDC/ECDC is a dynamic instrument for mobilizing scientific, technical, managerial, financial, and other resources necessary to generate and strengthen national and collective capabilities to improve the health of the people,

1. To express appreciation to the Director for the "Guidelines for the Promotion of TCDC/ECDC in the Health Sector with the Collaboration of PAHO" and to recommend their use as a basis for action in the field, together with the report of the Second Meeting of the PAHO/WHO Special Working Group on TCDC, created by the Organization for this purpose.

2. To urge the Member Countries to take the appropriate institutional, legal, administrative, and financial steps to promote, facilitate, and undertake collective and bilateral actions using the mechanisms of TCDC/ECDC relative to the Regional Strategies and the Plan of Action for health for all by the year 2000.

3. To recommend that the Director take the necessary technical and administrative steps to collaborate with Member Countries in TCDC/ECDC in the priority areas of health noted in the guidelines and such other steps as may be necessary.

4. To request the Director to report to the XXXI Meeting of the Directing Council on Member Countries' progress in the use of TCDC/ECDC and on the support provided by PAHO/WHO.