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Predictability
Upfront resources at the start of the four-year cycle are necessary so that WHO can plan effectively, keep a stable workforce and allocate funds efficiently.
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WHO's Investment Round
This content was last updated on 24 July 2024.
To address important challenges faced in global health, WHO launched its first Investment Round: a new approach to mobilizing predictable and flexible resources for WHO’s core work for the next 4 years (2025–2028). Working with existing donors and other partners, the Investment Round also aims to attract new donors through an inclusive engagement process that will culminate in a high-level virtual pledging event in early November and a financing moment at the G20 leaders’ summit chaired by Brazilian President Lula da Silva.
The Investment Round is supported by a growing group of co-hosts: France, Germany, Norway, Brazil, Mauritania (for the African Union), South Africa, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Co-hosts are key to raise awareness about the importance of fully funding the work of the WHO, as well as providing support and commitment to our common global health agenda.
The Investment Round aims to appropriately resource WHO’s core work for 2025–2028 while increasing the overall efficiency of receiving and disbursing of funds across the Organization.
Context
Global health is faces severe inequities and inequalities in health, which were amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. More than half the world’s population is not fully covered by one or more essential health services, and 2 billion people face financial hardship due to out-of-pocket health spending.
At the centre of the world’s health architecture is the World Health Organization, which holds the mandate as the global coordinating authority for health. With 194 Member States, WHO brings a unique legitimacy, global footprint, and expertise, with the empower countries and partners to improve health and well-being for all.
What WHO will deliver 2025–2028
Through the recently approved WHO’s strategy for the next four years (2025-2028), the Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 14), WHO will catalyze action to deliver results in the final push to the health 2030 SDGs, addressing global health challenges, setting the agenda on access and innovation, accelerating universal health coverage through a primary health approach, and better supporting countries in their differentiated needs based on the world’s best standards.
WHO’s unique infrastructure of data, country coordination and priority-setting provides the conditions for global and regional health partnerships to set and drive investment and progress. WHO will, over the next four years, save at least 40 million lives through concrete actions including:
- increasing the number of vaccines delivered to priority countries;
- providing access to health services to more than 150 million people in humanitarian settings in 30 countries;
- bringing solar electrification to 10 000 health facilities;
- supporting 55 countries in educating and employing 3.2 million health workers;
- helping 84 countries reach targets for eliminating malaria, mother-to-child HIV transmission and other diseases;
- strengthening access to timely and reliable health data; and
- prequalifying 400 health products per year.
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a Includes tobacco, alcohol, physical inactivity, unhealthy diet.
b Includes preparedness and prevention of high-threat outbreaks, including for example measles, yellow fever, meningitis and the risk of a pandemic event.
WHO, with its 194 Member States and presence around the world, is uniquely placed to guide and coordinate collective action.
With a fully and sustainably funded WHO,
decisive steps can be taken in the next 4 years to tackle emergencies and
outbreaks that threaten lives and jeopardize global health security, to reduce
disease, and continue working to improve well-being for everyone, especially
for the most vulnerable.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
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WHO Director-General
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