Advancing Sustainable Health Emergency
Preparedness Capacities beyond COVID-19 Background:

This action is designed to strengthen country capacities for health emergencies beyond COVID-19 and support implementation of country priority actions through NAPHS while linking with National Health Sector Strategic Plans. Building medium term sustainable country preparedness capacities through NAPHS is complementary to the COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP); the pillars of the SPRP align with the technical areas in NAPHS.

This action will prioritize support for those countries most at risk, as well as weak health systems based on the ACP eligible countries. Areas of support will include but not limited to multisectoral preparedness coordination, IHR-PVS National Bridging Workshops, simulation exercises, after-action reviews, heath security data, risk communication and all hazards community engagement, Points of Entry, strengthening of surveillance and laboratory systems, and NAPHS implementation, resource mapping, as well as other priorities activities identified by WHE regions and country offices.

Objectives

• Supporting countries to scale up global preparedness beyond COVID-19 through building sustainable health emergency capacities, particularly to address country gaps and needs
• Implementation of National Action Plans for Health Security (NAPHS), including integrating NAPHS and disease-specific plans
• Strengthening health security through building resilient, responsive health systems

Geographic Health Security Preparedness Scope

The additional funding for health security preparedness will cover Devco’s 69 ACP countries (see attached Annex). This covers all ACP geographical regions corresponding with the five WHO regions, namely AFRO, SEARO, WPRO, EMRO and AMRO. In total WHO support 79 ACP countries.