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.

134th Executive Board, January 2014

• Revised human resources strategy
  pdf, 111kb
  December 2013
• WHO Internal control framework
  pdf, 652kb
  November 2013
• WHO reform stage 2 evaluation – final report
  This independent evaluation has assessed the status of action taken on the recommendations of the stage one evaluation, modalities of implementing the reform proposals, the adequacy of the implementation plan and the change management strategy.
• Financing dialogue: report to the Secretariat
  EB134/9
  pdf, 79kb
• Second stage evaluation on WHO reform
  EB134/39
  pdf, 4.67Mb
• Revised human resources strategy
  EB134/INF./2
  pdf, 181kb

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 proposals 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