SEA/RC67/4 - Follow-up of the Financing Dialogue

Abstract

The Director-General launched WHO’s Financing Dialogue with Member States in June 2013. The Financing Dialogue aims to ensure a match between WHO’s results and deliverables, as agreed in the Member State-approved Programme Budget, and the resources available to finance them, with the ultimate objective of enhancing the quality and effectiveness of WHO’s work. It is designed to improve the alignment, predictability, flexibility and transparency of WHO’s funding and to reduce its vulnerability.The attached working paper provides the updates and follow-up on the financing dialogue. The High-Level Preparatory (‎HLP)‎ Meeting held in the Regional Office in New Delhi from 14 to 17 July 2014 reviewed the attached working paper and made the following recommendations:Action by Member States(‎1)‎Member States should continue to engage in the Financing Dialogue, voice opinions and suggest improvements as the process moves forwardAction by the WHO Regional Office(‎1)‎More information on the findings of the evaluation of the Financing Dialogue should be incorporated in the working paper for the Sixty-seventh Session of the Regional CommitteeThe revised working paper and HLP meeting recommendations are submitted to the Sixty-seventh Session of the Regional Committee for consideration.