Global Programme on Tuberculosis & Lung Health
The WHO Global Programme on Tuberculosis & Lung Health works towards the goal of a world free of TB, with zero deaths, disease and suffering due to the disease. The team’s mission is to lead and guide the global effort to end the TB epidemic through universal access to people-centred prevention and care, multisectoral action and innovation.
Strategic planning for tuberculosis (TB)
The political declaration of the 2023 United Nations high-level meeting on the fight against tuberculosis includes commitment by member states to developing and implementing ambitious costed national strategic plans for tuberculosis, with multisectoral approaches.
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What is a National Strategic Plan for TB?
- A national strategic plan (NSP) for TB guides national authorities and stakeholders on how to comprehensively address the TB epidemic through interventions within the health sector and in other sectors.
- It outlines the overall goal, strategies and interventions prioritized by national health authorities and stakeholders and provides guidance on how these are coordinated across various sectors.
- It translates global, regional and national commitments into national and subnational targets and activities to be implemented to achieve these targets, and provides the basis for mobilization of domestic and external resources for the TB response.
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Benefits of Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is the process of developing an NSP. This process should preferably part of the overall national health sector planning process and should contribute to universal health coverage (UHC), and to addressing the broader determinants of TB through collaboration between programmes and sectors within and beyond the health sector.
A well-planned and well-coordinated strategic planning process has several benefits, including:
- to assess the country’s situation, and adopt and adapt international commitments and recommendations to the local context;
- identification of relevant stakeholders and their engagement to comprehensively identify and address the needs of people affected by TB;
- building capacity of TB-affected communities, nongovernmental organizations and other stakeholders on planning for TB, and strengthens their meaningful engagement in the TB response;
- facilitating critical interdisciplinary and multisectoral review of the country’s TB situation;
- facilitating collective exploration of the underlying causes and system factors that need to be addressed to end the TB epidemic;
- facilitating holistic planning, ensuring linkage with other national strategies in the context of the broader UHC and PHC agenda
- providing a platform for collectively identifying and building consensus; and
- providing an opportunity to increase awareness and strengthen the commitment of political leaders to the TB response, and to mobilize the required resources.
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- NSP and National Health strategies Country File Repository
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Good practices for national strategic planning for TB include:
- Government leadership and ownership
- Alignment with the End TB Strategy and other relevant global and regional strategies
- Alignment with the national health strategy and other health programme strategies
- Multisectoral and multistakeholder engagement
- Adapting the NSP at subnational level
- Promoting quality care that is effective, safe and people centred
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The planning cycle is the ongoing process of:
- Developing a bold and ambitious national strategic plan
- Implementing the plan
- Fine-tuning the plan along the way through monitoring and evaluation
- Preparing for the future
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