Executive Overview
Setting the scene and progress towards the 3 billion targets and SDGs.
WHO is marking its 75th anniversary this year, with its 194 Member States and partners, by calling for a renewed drive for health equity. The past seven and a half decades have seen extraordinary progress in protecting people from diseases, health risks and harms. However, as this report shows, further progress is needed to achieve the triple billion targets towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and meeting other health challenges, such as mental health, antimicrobial resistance and climate change.
- Improved access to quality essential health services irrespective of gender, age or disability status
- Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
Financial, human, and administrative resources managed in an efficient, effective, results-oriented and transparent manner
Enhancing efficiency and effectiveness in WHO's management to maximize global health impact.
Introducing innovations and applying lessons learned from the COVID pandemic in the Organization’s management and administration will enable WHO to be in a better position to contribute strongly to putting the world back on track towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The goal of WHO management and administration is to serve as a more effective and efficient enabler for the Organization to do its important work for carrying out its mission of promoting health, keeping the world safe and serving the vulnerable. It works to integrate the interface of human resources, financing and administrative processes and policies and technical work in a seamless manner in order to achieve results and deliver value for money.
PROGRAMME BUDGET FUNDING AND UTILIZATION
WHO’s biennial Programme budget is based on the principles of transparency, accountability and providing value for money
The Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA75.5 in May 2022, revising the approved base programmes segment of the Programme budget 2022-2023 to a total of US$ 6.726 billion. By the end of the first year, the total Programme budget has a good level of financing (US$ 8.3 billion), including projections, which exceeded the total approved. The good level of financing is explained by two event-driven budget segments: emergency operations and appeals, and polio eradication, the financing for which has needed to exceed the amounts established in the Programme budget in order to keep step with operational needs.
