Countries prepared for health emergencies

The Secretariat will support countries to: develop and design the national health emergency response operations plan for multiple hazards, using WHO guidance on preparing for national response to health emergencies and disasters, which is based on the analysis of several emergency responses and the good practices globally; develop capacities to use the State Party Self-Assessment Annual Reporting Tool and the national action plans for health security as a key vehicle to address gender equality, health equity, and human rights issues for enhanced health security and a resilience health system; support the development of hospital resilience strategy, in line with lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic that enable hospitals to better cope with, adapt and recover more efficiently from the impact of an emergency or natural disaster to save lives through the provision of an adequate essential health services; scale up and roll out across WHO regions of joint civil-military preparedness capacity-buildingactivities to strengthen health emergency preparedness; strengthen areas of low capacity highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic and other assessments through targeted technical support for legislative preparedness, urban preparedness ? in line with resolution WHA75.7 ? including leadership and governance; community empowerment; logistics and supply chains; public?private partnership; deployable human resources; health system adaptability for health security; health facility preparedness and subnational public health capacities; scale up preparedness in special contexts in line with resolution WHA75.7, including small island developing States, overseas territories, and fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings; lead efforts to foster engagement with non-traditional health stakeholders, including parliamentarians, ministries of finance, ministries of foreign affairs, community leaders, sporting organizations and faith-based organizations, to build a multisectoral, whole-of-society approach to capacity-building and emergency preparedness; establish the Global Sustainable Preparedness Support Network to support countries in accelerating the implementation of national action plans for health security and other national priorities and plans through a multisectoral network of technical partners; periodically realign national preparedness activities and resources with gaps and regional/global direction through processes and tools, including resource-mapping to support the identification of financial and technical resources and needs gaps, for implementation of national action plans for health security; provide technical support, workshops, webinars and training on the development, implementation and monitoring of of national action plans for health security; develop and implement an online platform to simplify and streamline the process of of national action plans for health security, through integration and alignment of existing health security tools and processes and consolidate them into the online platform; continue building stronger capacities for health security preparedness at the human?animal interface in order to address identified risks, including zoonotic diseases of known and unknown origin, through the One Health approach; operationalize the framework on health systems for health security and support countries to develop IHR capacities and components in health systems to achieve synergy in dealing with challenges of health emergencies; develop training modules on gender in health emergencies and roll out training for countries; and develop and strengthen legal preparedness capacities for implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005).