Executive Summary of Results Report, Programme budget 2020–2021

Overview

Measurable impact in countries lies at the heart of WHO’s mission to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. WHO’s strategy, the Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2023 (GPW 13) focuses on delivering measurable improvements to health in all countries. The Executive Board recommended the extension of the period of the GPW 13 from 2023 to 2025. In GPW 13, WHO set triple billion targets for healthier populations, universal health coverage and health emergencies (one billion more people enjoying better health and well-being, one billion more people benefitting from universal health coverage, and one billion people better protected from health emergencies by 2023), based on the Sustainable Development Goals. It also defined how WHO will help countries attain the targets through leadership, global public health goods and technical products, and country support. The GPW 13 triple billion targets continue to be a powerful force to drive and deliver change. They provide a unified approach to achieving the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and contribute to improvements in healthy life expectancy.

This report marks five years since WHO set out to enhance its focus on measurable impacts in countries. During this time, the Organization set measurable triple billion targets based on the Sustainable Development Goals; established a results framework to measure country progress and identify the contribution of the WHO Secretariat; reported annually using the framework; launched delivery stock takes to track progress and identify ways for WHO to support countries on specific indicators; developed and revised the first WHO investment case; and continue to help countries accelerate progress through scaling innovation, innovative finance, and strengthening collaboration among multilateral agencies.

This results report for the biennium 2020–2021 presents the progress towards the triple billion targets, outcomes and outputs, based on the GPW 13 results framework and indicators. It uses structured methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, for measuring and analysing the achievements and challenges to achieving them, and includes country and impact case studies to exemplify how the Organization’s work is driving health impacts at the country level, where it matters most. For the first time, the WHO Secretariat is reporting on its investments, results and performance through a scorecard methodology for every country or territory it serves.

WHO’s overall goal is to continuously improve its accountability for results. This generates trust on the part of those it serves and those who support WHO, and creates a virtuous circle reinforcing WHO’s Constitutional leadership function “to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work.”

See the detailed results report in this link:

https://www.who.int/about/accountability/results/who-results-report-2020-2021