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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glob Health Gov. 2010 Spring;3(2):http://blogs.shu.edu/ghg/files/2011/11/Lee_Civil-Society-Organizations-and-the-Functions-of-Global-Health-Governance_Spring-2010.pdf.

Table 3.

Functions in the Global Governance of Tobacco Control

Function Formal/Direct Informal/Indirect
Issue linkage

  • By IGOs (WHO Tobacco Free Initiative)

  • By scientists (smoking and health research)
Agenda setting

  • By IGOs (FCTC Working Group and ING)

  • By national governments

  • By CSOs as observers in FCTC Working Group and ING)

  • By business/industry lobbying policy makers
Developing usable knowledge

  • By IGOs (WHO TFI surveillance surveys; World Bank, FAO)

  • National governments (CDC youth survey)

  • By scientists (smoking and health research)

  • By business/industry (industry funded research)

  • By legal action (discovery of internal industry documents)
Monitoring

  • By IGO (national reports to WHO FCTC Interim Secretariat)

  • By CSOs (FCA reporting lack of compliance by governments and violations by industry)
Rule making

  • By IGOs (WHO member states adopting FCTC and protocols)

  • By national governments (adoption of national legislation)

  • By CSOs (as observers at ING sessions)

  • By legal systems (litigation against tobacco industry)
Norm development

  • By IGOs (WHO TFI awareness building among member states)

  • By national governments (support of tobacco control programmes)

  • By health workers (public education)

  • By CSOs

  • By business/industry (e.g. CSR initiatives)
Policy verification

  • By IGO (WHO FCTC Secretariat national reporting; Global Information System on Tobacco Control; Global Youth Tobacco Survey)

  • By CSOs (scrutiny of industry CSR initiatives against practices; public health and scientific conferences)
Enforcement Capacity building (technology transfer)

  • By IGO (WHO FCTC Secretariat) By WHO FCTC Secretariat (technical assistance to member states)

  • By CSOs (campaigning and exertion of public pressure) By CSOs (RITC; Fogarty International Centre; Rockefeller Foundation; Globalink)
Capacity building (organizational skills)

  • By WHO FCTC Interim Secretariat (technical assistance to member states)

  • By CSOs (RITC; Bloomberg Global Tobacco Initiative)
Promote vertical integration

  • By WTO TFI (development of comprehensive tobacco control strategies)

  • By national governments (through adoption and support of comprehensive tobacco control policies)
Financing

  • By CSOs (e.g. Bloomberg Global Tobacco Initiative, Rockefeller Foundation Trading Tobacco Initiative)

  • By research funding bodies (e.g. Fogarty, NIH)