Managerial reform

With a view to improving WHO’s organizational effectiveness, alignment, and efficiency, reform proposals in this area fall into five main areas:

• strengthened technical and policy support to Member States and strengthening country offices,
• financing of the Organization,
• human resource policies and management,
• results-based management and accountability, and
• a strategic communications framework.

Reference documents

Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly (WHA66) and Executive Board 133, May 2013

• WHO reform, financing of WHO: report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixty-sixth World Health Assembly
  A66/50
  pdf, 40kb
• WHO governance reform: options for criteria for inclusion, exclusion or deferral of items on the provisional agenda of the Executive Board
  EB133/3
  pdf, 47kb
• WHO governance reform: report by the Secretariat
  EB133/16
  pdf, 85kb
• WHO reform - High-level implementation plan and report
  A66/4
  pdf, 374kb
• WHO reform - Financing of WHO
  A66/48
  pdf, 126kb
• Draft twelfth general programme of work
  A66/6
  pdf, 496kb
• Proposed programme budget 2014–2015
  A66/7
  pdf, 1Mb

132nd Executive Board, January 2013

• Report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board at its second extraordinary meeting
  EB132/3
  pdf, 37kb
• Review of management, administration and decentralization in the World Health Organization, report by the Joint Inspection Unit
  EB132/5 Add.6
  pdf, 105kb
• Modalities for the independent evaluation of the WHO reform: stage two
  EB132/5 Add.7
  pdf, 32kb
• Draft Twelfth WHO General Programme of Work
  EB132/26 - Draft for discussion by the Executive Board in January 2013
  pdf, 770kb
• Proposed programme budget 2014–2015
  EB132/27
  pdf, 633kb
• Scale of assessments for 2014–2015
  EB132/28 Add.1 - Foreign exchange risk management
  pdf, 29kb
• Implementation of WHO reform, 2012 - Report by the Director-General
  EB132/5 Add.8
  pdf, 86kb
• Implementation of WHO reform, 2012 - High-level implementation plan
  EB132/INF./3
  pdf, 99kb

Special Session of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board (PBAC), 6-7 December 2012

A meeting focused on improving WHO’s financing.

• All documentation

131st Executive Board, May 2012

• WHO reform: Draft formal evaluation policy (EB131/3)
  Draft policy defining the overall framework for evaluation at WHO, 3 May 2012. Revised following input from EB130, Member States' input on special consultation website and deliberations from an Independent Expert Oversight Advisory Committee.
  pdf, 50kb
• Decisions and list of resolutions (EB131/DIV/2)
  131st Executive Board decision and list of resolutions - reform decision is EB131(10).
  pdf, 86kb

Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly, May 2012

• WHO reform: Consolidated report by the Director-General (A65/5)
  Consolidated report covering the three areas of WHO reform, providing an update on developments over the past 12 months (April 2012).
  pdf, 163kb
• Draft Twelfth General Programme of Work and explanatory notes (A65/5 Add.1)
  pdf, 199kb
  Draft strategic overview of the draft Twelfth General Programme of Work for 2014-2019.
  pdf, 86kb
• WHO reform: Independent evaluation report: stage one (A65/5 Add.2)
  Report of the External Auditor (27 February to 30 March 2012) on the first stage of an evaluation to provide input into the reform process.
  pdf, 312kb
• WHO reform: Sixth report of the Programme, Budget and Administration Committee of the Executive Board to the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly (A65/43)
  Comments and discussions regarding the strategic overview of the draft Twelfth General Programme of Work, the mechanism for predictable financing and scheduling of meetings of the governing bodies.
  pdf, 82kb
• WHO reform: High-level implementation and monitoring framework (A65/INF.DOC./6)
  Implementation and monitoring framework for the programme of reform with milestones.
  pdf, 800kb
• Decisions and list of resolutions (A65/DIV/3)
  Compiled list of decisions and resolutions from WHA65 - reform decision is WHA65(9).
  pdf, 99kb

130th Executive Board, January 2012

• WHO reform: Managerial reform: making WHO’s financing more predictable (EB130/5 Add.5)
  Report by the Secretariat detailing a new three stage financial mechanism to increase financial predictability and transparency.
  pdf, 165kb
• WHO reform: Managerial reform: contingency fund for outbreaks (EB130/5 Add.6)
  Proposal to strengthen the Organization's response to outbreaks: details how such a fund could be structured.
  pdf, 30kb
• WHO reform: Managerial reforms: clarification on propsals for enhancing organizational effectiveness (EB130/5 Add.7)
  Enhancing networks and relationships between WHO regional and country offices and enhancing capacity for effective resource mobilization at country level.
  pdf, 36kb
• WHO reform: WHO evaluation policy (EB130/5 Add.8)
  Draft policy aiming at defining the overall framework for evaluation at WHO, (including thematic, programmatic and country office-specific evaluation), 22 February 2011.
  pdf, 52kb
• WHO reform: Managerial reform: evaluation (EB130/5 Add.9)
  Proposal for the way forward for evaluations including UN joint inspection unit and a two-stage evaluation of the Organization.
  pdf, 169kb
• Decisions and list of resolutions (EB130(6))
  Compiled list of decisions and resolutions from EB130 (reform decision is (EB130(6)).
  pdf, 203kb

Special session of the Executive Board, November 2011

• WHO reforms for a healthy future (EBSS/2/2)
  Consolidated report covering the three areas of the WHO reform prepared by the Secretariat for the special session of the Executive Board.
  pdf, 409kb
• Financing of the World Health Organization (EBSS/2/INF.DOC./2)
  Overview of financial trends.
  pdf, 89kb
• Managerial reform: Introductory remarks by the Director-General (EBSS/2/INF.DOC./12)
  Director-General's introductory remarks for opening the session on managerial reform at the special session of the Executive Board.
  pdf, 33kb
• Decisions (EBSS/2/Div/2)
  Decisions in the three areas of reform.
  pdf, 40kb

129th Executive Board, May 2011

• Executive Board decisions (EB129/DIV/2)
  Mandate for reform - WHO reform is decision EB129 (8).
  pdf, 31kb

Sixty-fourth World Health Assembly, May 2011

• The future of financing for WHO - (A64/4)
  Paper proposing a series of reforms for the consideration of the WHA64.
  pdf, 89kb
• The future of financing for WHO - reforms for a healthy future: development plan (A64/INF.DOC./5)
  Development plan to provide with more detail on the reform and give an indication of the expected outcomes and outputs from the areas of reform.
  pdf, 36kb
• World Health Assembly resolution - WHO reform for a healthy future (A64.2)
  Mandate for reform.
  pdf, 8kb