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
Health emergencies rapidly detected and responded to
Enhancing detection and surveillance capacities for swift management of health emergencies.
The rapid detection, verification, assessment, management and communication of health emergencies is essential to save lives and recover from health emergencies.
WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme investigates alerts and verifies public health events from a diverse and large number of sources for all health hazards and employs systematic processes, public health expertise and networks and powerful new technologies to translate this data into public health intelligence. WHO’s role in public health intelligence extends beyond the initial detection and validation of signals to the continuous monitoring of emergencies, as they and the risks that they pose evolve over time.
One of the key challenges and opportunities to improve the timelines of event detection is the strengthening of national surveillance capacities, in line with the recommendations of the Review Committee on the Functioning of the International Health Regulations (2005) during the COVID-19 Response, as part of a broader strengthening of health emergency preparedness and readiness capacity.
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.
