As the Organization shifts its strategic focus towards country impact, it will focus on empowering country offices, including leadership in country offices and establishing a core predictable country presence in every country. In line with GPW13?s differentiated approach WHO?s support to countries, the Secretariat will establish capacities in its country offices that are tailor-fit to the purpose of WHO?s support implementation and operations at the country level. The Secretariat will commit to guaranteeing core capacities in country offices that the Organization to function as a strategic partner, technical assurance provider, policy adviser, operations coordinator or service provider whatever is needed at a certain time at the country level. The above will be accompanied by empowering country offices not only through establishing needed capacities but also placing the most suitable and strong leadership in every country, and ways of working that demonstrate better effectiveness, efficiency, accountability and transparency. This will require greater delegation of authority for country offices to bring decision-making closer on the ground human resources, financing and operations. The Secretariat will implement changes that ensure WHO operates better as one Organization, reducing duplication, fragmentation in all of its processes and how it delivers its work at all levels and towards driving impact in every country. With the foundation established through the core predictable country presence model, the Secretariat will work towards bringing the right capacities from all levels of the Organization, and from other stakeholders, including United Nations and bilateral partners and collaborating centres, to support its work. The Secretariat will work towards turning its culture from countries at the bottom to country offices first in strengthening its three-level operating model, including communications, decision-making, resource allocation and managing the mobility of its workforce. The Secretariat will introduce changes that enable the Organization to be agile in more concrete terms, enabling staff from different organizational groups to work more easily and coalesce around delivering certain tasks. The Secretariat will establish a better monitoring system, beyond staff surveys, to demonstrate the impact of its transformation initiatives and action plan.

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