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The Technical Secretariat shall perform the following functions:
a) provision to the Council of timely advice on scientific and technological matters relating to public health management and prevention of disease;
b) provision of assessments of the state of scientific knowledge relating to public health management and prevention of disease;
c) provision of assessments of the effects of regional and national measures designed to deal with protection of health and prevention of disease;
d) provision of advice on scientific programmes and on international co-operation in research and development;
f) provision of responses to Members requesting scientific, technological and methodological information;
g) identification of projects in respect of which CARPHA could perform the functions of executing agency;
h) provision of secretarial services for the meetings of the Council and subsidiary bodies of CARPHA;
i) co-ordination of the work of CARPHA with that of interested intergovernmental and non-governmental bodies;
j) conclusion of such administrative and contractual arrangements as may be required for the effective performance of its functions as approved by the Council;
k) preparation of the draft recurrent budget for submission to the Executive Board for examination and approval; and
l) preparation of the Work Programme of CARPHA for submission to the Executive Board for examination and approval.