[Forwarded from our colleagues at WHO with a comment from me below]
Dear UHC Advocates,
WHO has launched a stakeholder survey [ https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/have-your-say-on-transform... ] to inform a proposal for joint process for the global health architecture reform, which will be presented to Member States at the World Health Assembly in May. [ https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/governing-bodies/a-joint-p... ]
Your input matters.
To support a strong and coherent civil society voice, CSEM has prepared UHC-focused feedback (attached). We encourage you to draw on and adapt this input for your own submissions — the more civil society and community perspectives are reflected in this process, the better positioned we are to shape a new global health architecture that advances UHC and leaves no one behind.
Please complete the survey by April 18 and share this feedback widely within your networks.
Thank you for your continued partnership and advocacy.
Best,
CSEM Secretariat
COMMENT (NPW): I have submitted a response to the survey, which is quick and easy to do once you have looked at the 'joint process'. I think I am coming to this late as the proposal for joint process seems to be partly completed already. The survey asks for feedback on their engagement strategy. Not much information is available on this but it appears to be limited to static surveys and in-person meetings (Lusake and Accra are mentioned). I have suggested that their approach to stakeholder engagement could also include structured, dynamic interaction on global communities of practice such as HIFA. Another point it that the proposal seems to include WHO Collaborating Centres but not NGOs in official relations with WHO (such as HIFA/Global Healthcare Information Network).
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org