Programme Budget Performance Assessment: 2020–2021
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World Health Organization. Regional Office for South-East Asia
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Consistent with WHO’s results and accountability frameworks, this Working Paper provides information on the programmatic and financial implementation of the Programme Budget 2020–2021 in the South-East Asia Region based on the end-of-biennium assessment. The‘WHO Results Report Programme Budget 2020–2021 – For a safer, healthier and fairer world’ was presented at the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly.The Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2023, marked a new strategic direction for WHO. Measurable impact in countries lies at the heart of this strategy. The tenure of the Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13) was extended to 2025 by the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly in May 2022 to intensify and strengthen the support to countries in recovering from the impact of the pandemic and accelerate progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.Programme Budget 2020–2021 is the first of the Programme Budgets implemented under the Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13) 2019–2023, which provided a new strategic direction for WHO. With the publishing of the Results Report for Programme Budget 2020–2021, progress towards the ‘Triple Billion’ targets, outcomes and outputs has been presented to Member States based on the GPW13 Results Framework.The SDG-based Triple Billion targets for healthier populations, universal health coverage and health emergencies define how WHO would help countries attain these targets through leadership, global public health goods/technical products and country support.The overall goal is to continuously improve WHO’s accountability for results. Thisgenerates trust on the part of those the Organization serves and those who support WHO, and creates a virtuous cycle reinforcing WHO’s leadership function ’to act as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work’.Structured methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, were used for measuring and analysing the achievements and challenges thereto, and these include country and impact case studies to exemplify how the Organization’s work is driving health impacts at the country level, where it matters most. Although battling the COVID-19 pandemic took centrestage in 2021, the Organization’s achievements in that year go beyond how WHO responded to the COVID 19 pandemic. The outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic early in 2020 posed unprecedented health and economic challenges worldwide and placed new and urgent demands on the Organization. Nonetheless, the Organization was able to respond and maintain its focus on the effective implementation of programmatic activities with the help of partners and stakeholders.The achievements of the Secretariat against each of the Outputs are assessed through six dimensions using the Output Scorecard. The Scorecard is refined further with experiences gained from the mid-term review (MTR) of PB 2020-21 and feedback received from various consultations and focus group discussions.The WHO Results Report complements the Financial Report; both are integral parts of the transparent presentation of the Organization’s work in 2020ؘ–2021. The Detailed Results Report is available online at https://www.who.int/about/accountability/results/who-results report-2020-2021. The ‘WHO Results Report Programme Budget 2020–2021 – For a safer, healthier and fairer world’ was presented to the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly and noted by it. On the financial front, the 2020–2021 biennium saw the highest levels of financing (US$ 7916 million) and implementation (US$ 6640 million) across the Organization. The total amount of distributed resources for the biennium for the South-East Asia Region wasUS$ 515.1 million and implementation (expenditure) was US$ 476.3 million, which amounts to 92% of the distributed resources. The approved Programme Budget was fundedat 115% and its implementation was 107%.This report was presented to the Fifteenth Meeting of the Subcommittee on Policy and Programme Development and Management (SPPDM), for its review and recommendations.The SPPDM meeting reviewed the paper and made the following recommendations for consideration by the Seventy-fifth Session of the Regional Committee: Actions by Member States(1) Continue engaging in and facilitating collaborative approaches for successful implementation of programmes at the country level. (2) Build on the progress made and lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic to achieve national targets and contribute to global and regional targets, namely the Thirteenth General Programme of Work and the Sustainable Development Goals.Actions by WHO (1) Ensure continued focus on effective Programme Budget implementation, country priorities and results, in alignment with the Regional Flagship Priority Programmes and the Thirteenth General Programme of Work.(2) Continue to monitor technical and financial implementation and strategic resourceallocation according to priorities agreed with the Member States.This Working Paper, along with the SPPDM recommendations, is submitted to the Seventy-fifth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for South-East Asia for its consideration.