Partners

It also focuses on strengthening health systems, looking in particular at countries with inadequate infrastructure, lack of trained healthcare workers and interruption in the supplies of essential products, along with a lack of data to track progress. It works to enhance CSO engagement in national health sector planning and policy processes.

“By working with partners like UNDP, we can better address the social, economic and environmental determinants of health and make progress towards a fairer, safer and more prosperous future for everyone” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of WHO.

WHO & UNDP have developed a joint commitment to strengthening country capacity to achieve universal health coverage, acting decisively on multi-sectoral responses to health emergencies, as well as ensuring delivery of essential health services in fragile, vulnerable and conflict-affected settings.

In line with WHO’s leadership on universal health coverage, UNDP and WHO are supporting countries to strengthen the capacity of their health systems, including addressing the social, economic and environmental determinants of health.

The collaboration focuses on three key areas:

1. Universal health coverage
2. Health emergencies
3. Health and environment.

The partnership between WHO and UNDP illustrates how the core competencies of the UN health and development agencies can come together to support multi-sectoral responses for health and deliver shared gains across the 2030 Agenda.

• Offering technical expertise in developing new programmes or finding bottlenecks and challenges preventing successful grant implementation.
• Supporting country coordination.
• Assisting with stakeholder engagement.
• Monitoring and evaluating of Global Fund-supported programmes.

The partners below work to provide technical support to implementers (PRs, SRs and CCMs) in a variety of areas. More information on how to source the support can be found on their websites.

Read more about the UNDP's partnership with The Global Fund.

It provides capacity development and supports the strengthening of systems for programmatic and financial management of grants, as well as enhancing monitoring and evaluation and the management of procurement and supply of medical products. Additionally it aims to strengthen grant governance and oversight by supporting Country Coordinating Mechanisms (CCMs) and enabling countries to access Global Fund resources by assisting funding requests, and drafting national strategic documents.

One in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. On any given day, WFP has 5,000 trucks, 20 ships and 92 planes on the move, delivering food and other assistance to those in most need.

WFP’s efforts focus on emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development aid and special operations, predominantly in conflict -affected countries where people are three times more likely to be undernourished than those living in countries without conflict.

WFP works with states to draft and implement policies that promote food security and nutrition objectives, rooted in strong governance, responsive institutions and an enabling environment. It offers nationally-tailored technical assistance and capacity development to strengthen individual government capacities to achieve national food security and nutrition objectives:

• Policies and legislation
• Institutional accountability
• Strategic planning and financing
• National programme design and delivery
• Engagement and participation of non-state actors

It also focuses on embedding resilience in interventions, to lessen the effects of shocks and stressors and ensure that people rebuild better after disasters.

UNAIDS provides the strategic direction, advocacy, coordination and technical support needed to catalyse and connect leadership from governments, the private sector and communities to deliver life-saving HIV services. It places people living with HIV and people affected by the virus at the decision-making table and at the centre of designing, delivering and monitoring the AIDS response, and is a bold advocate for addressing the legal and policy barriers to the AIDS response. Link to Kitty’s section

UNAIDS generates strategic information and analysis that increases the understanding of the state of the AIDS epidemic and progress made at the local, national, regional and global levels. It leads the world’s most extensive data collection on HIV epidemiology, programme coverage and finance on the HIV epidemic—vital for an effective response.

UNAIDS helps to:

• Encourage dialogue and bring in communities that have been left out of decision-making
• Build health and community systems
• Establish legal frameworks
• Shape public opinion towards creating healthy and resilient societies

It operates through its 1500 partner organisations, which include international, non-governmental and governmental organisations and patient groups; along with a secretariat and seven working groups, whose role is to accelerate progress on access to TB diagnosis and treatment; research and development for new TB diagnostics, drugs and vaccines; and tackling drug resistant- and HIV-associated TB. The secretariat is governed by a Coordinating Board that sets strategic direction for the global fight against TB:

• To ensure that every TB patient has access to effective diagnosis, treatment and cure
• To stop transmission of TB
• To reduce the inequitable social and economic toll of TB
• To develop and implement new preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic tools and strategies to stop TB

The partnership focuses on a human-rights-based approach to TB grounded in international, regional and domestic law, which establishes rights to health, non-discrimination, privacy, freedom of movement, and enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress, among others.

The partnership is comprised of more than 500 partners, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, non-governmental and community-based organisations, foundations, and research and academic institutions.

The Global Malaria Action Plan ‘Action and Investment to defeat Malaria 2016–2030 (AIM)’ is a guide for collective action for all those engaged in the fight against malaria.