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June 2016
WHO’S NEW HEALTH EMERGENCIES PROGRAMME The World Health Organization (WHO) is building a new Health Emergencies Programme to help Member States build their capacity to manage health emergency risks and, when national capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and provide effective relief and recovery to affected people. This involves working with countries and partners to prepare for, prevent, respond to and recover from all hazards that create health emergencies, including disasters, disease outbreaks and conflicts. The new Health Emergencies Programme will:
The health and well-being of people are at the core of WHO’s work for all emergencies. ONE EMERGENCIES PROGRAMME The new Health Emergencies Programme will consist of a common structure across the organization. The Country Offices, Regional Offices and Headquarters will have a single budget and planning mechanism, a single workforce using common standards and processes, and clearly defined accountabilities to provide a fast, effective and predictable response to health emergencies.
OPERATE IN ANY COUNTRY
affected by a health emergency
ONE WORKFORCE
DEDICATE >1000 WHO CORE STAFF to work on emergencies
HARNESS TECHNICAL EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE on all health hazards
COORDINATE
international response to health emergencies worldwide
ONE WHO EMERGENCIES PROGRAMME
WORK WITH HEALTH PARTNERS to leverage expertise of hundreds of partner agencies
SEEK US$ 494 MILLION
to scale-up operations for 2016-2017
Requested and approved by Member States, the new Health Emergencies Programme changes the way WHO does business, expanding from being primarily a technical and normative organization to a fully operational agency in emergencies.
ONE BUDGET
ONE LINE OF ACCOUNTABILITY ONE SET OF PROCESSES/ SYSTEMS ONE SET OF BENCHMARKS
RAPID ROLLOUT With Member State support, WHO has committed to move quickly to roll out the Health Emergencies Programme. It will make the most of WHO’s broad range of expertise to deliver rapidly and effectively for people when they need it most.
WHO’S NEW HEALTH EMERGENCIES PROGRAMME
BUILT ON EXPERIENCE Recent and ongoing emergencies have helped to test and refine the Programme, from the response to Ebola in West Africa and humanitarian crises in the Middle East, to the global response to the Zika virus and the yellow fever outbreak in south-central Africa to the health consequences of El Niño. To meet the world’s expectations to become a fully operational agency in emergencies, the Health Emergencies Programme requires a significant scale-up in people and finances.
PEOPLE: WHO aims to nearly double the number of core staff devoted to emergencies work to more than 1000 by the end of 2017, primarily at country and regional levels. Strengthening Health Cluster capacities in major emergency countries is a special priority. FINANCING: WHO needs sustainable core financing for the Programme’s standing capacities. For 2016-2017, WHO seeks US$ 494 million to scale-up the Programme with more robust needs anticipated in the years ahead. SCALE-UP: Starting 1 July 2016, the Programme is scaling up efforts over the next 36 months to become fully operational to the field level.
OUTCOME/RESULT
FUNCTION
GETTING RESULTS To achieve the Programme’s main goals, WHO developed a results framework that aligns with the Programme’s structure and reflects WHO’s major functions in health emergency risk management:
INFECTIOUS HAZARD MANAGEMENT
Risk mitigation strategies and capacities established for priority high-threat infectious hazards
COUNTRY HEALTH EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS (2005)
HEALTH EMERGENCY INFORMATION AND RISK ASSESSMENTS
Critical core capacities established for all hazard health emergency risk management in all countries
Timely and authorative analysis, risk assessment and response monitoring available for all major health threats and events
CORE SERVICES EMERGENCY OPERATIONS
Management & administration, external relations
Emergency-affected populations have access to an essential package of life-saving health services
WHO emergency operations rapidly and sustainably financed and staffed
Photo: WHO/C. Black
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