Mainstreaming gender in WHO's programmes and actions
The impactful integration of gender – along with equity and human rights approaches– into the corporate work of the World Health Organization is underscored as one of the Organization’s strategic priorities in its Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019 to 2023 (GPW13). To operationalize this impactful integration, WHO places mainstreaming gender, equity and human rights at the core of the “Leave no one behind” approach to universal health coverage and the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Leadership for mainstreaming gender is reinforced in the WHA’s resolution 60.25 “Strategy for integrating gender analysis and actions into the work of WHO” (2007) and WHO’s Policy on gender equality in staffing (2017). The new output measurement system, requested by Member States, comprises a scorecard with six strategic dimensions, one of them being the “impactful integration of gender, equity and human rights” in the programmatic and corporate work of WHO. The scorecard is aligned with the technical requirements and recommendations of the United Systems-Wide Action Plan on Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UNSWAP).
WHO’s Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is an International Gender Champion and committed to supporting efforts to mainstreaming gender across all the work of the Organization.
