Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
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The proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 is the first to be fully developed based on the WHO Fourteenth General Programme of Work 2025–2028 (GPW14). GPW14 aims to advance health equity and strengthen health systems resilience, building on the foundation established in the Thirteenth General Programme of Work 2019–2025 (GPW13). The Programme Budget also builds on an increase in assessed contributions, a decision made by the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly. Sustainable financing is essential for the continuity and stability of WHO’s programmes and for maintaining its capacity to respond to global health emergencies and challenges.The development of the Programme Budget (PB) 2026–2027 has continued the approach to priority-setting as an integral part of its development process. An iterative approach has been applied that starts at the country office level to ensure maximum alignment with country situations and priorities. The country prioritization results are key to developing and implementing draft Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027, informing Budget costing, allocation of resources and resource mobilization efforts. A full draft of the Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 and its summary version (Regional Committee version August 2024) are being presented to Member States as Information Documents (SEA/RC77/7 Inf. Doc.1) and (SEA/RC77/7 Inf. Doc. 2) respectively.As in the approved Programme Budgets of past bienniums, the proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 is presented in four segments: Base Programmes; Emergency Operations and Appeals; Polio eradication; and Special Programmes. The Proposed Programme Budget is presented with increase in US$ 562 million in Base Programme totalling to US$ 5530.2 million, increase in US$ 282 million under Polio eradication with a total of US$ 976.3 million, and decrease in US$ 9.3 million (total US$ 162.4 million) under Special Programmes compared with overall approved Budgets in each segment in Programme Budget 2024–2025. Two scenarios are presented under the Emergency Operations and Appeals segment. Based on Member State approval, the overall Programme Budget will be US$ 7668.9 million (scenario 1) and US$ 9515.7 million (scenario 2). The Base segment is the core mandate of WHO and constitutes the largest part of the proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 in terms of country, regional and global strategic priority-setting, detail and Budget figures. The base Programme Budget segment of the draft Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 is to be set at US$ 5530.2 million, compared with US$ 4968.2 million for the Programme Budget 2024–2025. The approved Programme Budget 2024–2025 for the WHO South-East Asia Region amounted to US$ 537.9 million, comprising US$ 487.3 million for the Base segment, US$ 46 million for the Emergency Operations and Appeals segment and US$ 4.6 million for Special Programmes. The total draft Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 for the SE Asia Region is US$ 575.9 million (scenario 1) and US$ 640.2 million (scenario 2) based on the proposal for the Emergency Operations and Appeals segment. The proposed Base segment of the Programme Budget for the Region in 2026–2027 is US$ 537.2 million. This is an increase of US$ 49.9 million (10%) over the Base segment in 2024–2025, which is mainly in the area of technical country capacity strengthening (US$ 31 million), data and innovation (US$ 8.4 million) and enhanced accountability (US$ 10.5 million).The draft Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 will use the new GPW14 Results Framework to track and assess results using 42 Outputs and 18 Outcomes. Programme Budget 2026–2027 focuses on sustaining and strengthening gender equity rights, evaluation, risk management and sustainable financing, including the consideration of the increase in assessed contributions by 20% to fund it. The Working Papers on GPW14 and the Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 were presented to the Seventeenth Meeting of the Subcommittee on Policy and Programme Development and Management (SPPDM) on 5 September 2024. The following recommendations were made by the SPPDM Meeting:Actions by Member States(1) Support the proposed joint assessment for a thorough review of Programme Budget implementation and actively participate in establishing baselines and targets for output indicators for GPW14. (2) Guide and advice on the proposed increase in Assessed Contributions by 20% to fund Proposed Programme Budget 2026–2027 during the Regional Committee.(3) Provide guidance on the preferred scenario for the EOA segment.(4) Continue participation in the development of the Results Framework for GPW14 and Programme Budget 2026–2027.Actions by WHO(1) Continue to collaborate with Member States for the next steps in the development of Programme Budget 2026–2027 through a consultative process and aligning with country-level prioritization.(2) Continue discussions with Member States on potential Output and Outcome indicators for each strategic objective and proposals for an enhanced impact measurement framework. (3) Provide additional information on the EOA Budget segment scenario in the revised document for the Regional Committee in consultation with the relevant technical programme.(4) Enhance the efforts for sustainable financing through investment round, increasing donor base and country-level resource mobilization and work towards maximizing Member States’ commitment to enhance Assessed Contributions by Member States.This Working Paper along with the recommendations of Seventeenth Meeting of the Subcommittee on Policy and Programme Development and Management (SPPDM) is submitted to the Seventy-seventh Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia for its consideration and guidance.