We would like to share the “National Planning Guide Summary – A Practical Approach to Health Security Capacity building”. We have created this document to serve as a short guide for developing a National Action Plan for Health Security (NAPHS) following a Joint External Evaluation (JEE) or other similar assessment. We recognize that as more JEE’s are completed there is a need to provide a clear, concise guide to the national planning process to accelerate progress toward development of NAPHS.

This document outlines the major steps toward the development of a NAPHS, contains additional detail on each step in the process, provides helpful recommended actions, and lists resources that are available to assist in the process. This guide supports a NAPHS development process that is flexible, led by the country, includes representatives from multiple sectors of government, and builds upon the results of country assessments of health security capacity (JEE or other similar assessments).

The National Planning Guide Summary is meant to be very concise. A more comprehensive version of this document is being developed as the “Country Planning Guide for Development of a National Action Plan for Health Security”.

We will be collecting comments on this document until August 18^th. We welcome you to send your thoughts and comments before August 18, 2017.

Thank you for taking the time to review this document and share your thoughts with us.

Ludy Suryantoro

Below is the timeline of the National Planning Guide Summary.