WHO delivering results and making an impact: stories from the ground

Overview

Delivering measurable impact in countries is at the core of WHO’s mission to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable. The Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13), 2019-2023, extended for two years until 2025, provides strategic direction to WHO’s work and includes ambitious but achievable Sustainable Development Goal-based triple billion target outcomes and indicators for healthier populations, universal health coverage, and health emergencies. We measure progress based on the WHO results framework, which tracks the joint efforts of the WHO Secretariat, Member States, and partners. As a mainstay of GPW13 reporting, country stories form one of three integral components of the WHO results framework. Qualitative impact stories give narrative texture to annual reporting of results. WHO delivering results and making an impact: stories from the ground presents over 90 stories across WHO’s six regions. The stories provide insight into how WHO provided support to countries to detect and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and support continuity of essential health services during the COVID-19 response from 2020-2021.