Interagency pharmaceutical coordination group

The Interagency Pharmaceutical Group was established more than 25 years ago on the initiative of the Swedish Government to address the need for better collaboration amongst development partners as a means of improving access to and use of safe, effective, quality assured medicines.

The Interagency Pharmaceutical Group (IPC) include senior pharmaceutical advisers from UN agencies and from other international institutions. Members meet regularly to share information on their respective programmes, achievements and challenges in medicines policy; to explore areas of common interest and synergies for collaboration; to coordinate the underlying pharmaceutical policies of technical advice to countries; to plan and coordinate the preparation of interagency statements and technical documents. Collaboration amongst the different agencies has led a better exchange of information, more consistency of the technical advice given and to improved use of resources. A number of interagency guidance documents have been published and implemented through this collaboration.