Acute health emergencies rapidly responded to, leveraging relevant national and international capacities

The Secretariat will step up its leadership by: developing and implementing strategic preparedness and response plans for all emergencies; enhancing the Emergency Operations Platform and network for the coordination and management of incidents, including mobilization and deployment of expertise; providing emergency supplies and finances through the Contingency Fund for Emergencies to enable rapid response at country level; and providing technical assistance by developing strategic guidelines and standard operating procedures, based on evolving public health needs; coordinating global health emergency responses, through established incident management structures, with a broad range of United Nations and non-United Nations partners, as a key member of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, as Lead Agency of the Global Health Cluster and as custodian of the International Health Regulations (2005); leading the development of a global, regional, and country-level emergency workforce, including rosters for surge capacity, and building operational capacity through integrated public health teams at all levels to strengthen WHO country and regional capacity to support emergency operations, including at the subnational level; evolving and integrating its emergency management and response systems in a modular manner, using common reference data and document structures as well as permissions and access control ? the Event Management Suite 2 (EMS2) initiative, enabling collaboration with partners and designed in a manner that allows for distribution to national systems in the future; and strengthening and expanding the global workforce of operational partnerships and networks, including the GOARN, emergency medical teams, the Global Health Cluster and standby partners to build emergency capacity and ensure rapid response when needed. The Secretariat will support countries to: convene and make recommendations on emergency grading based on risk assessments as established in the emergency response framework; implement emergency response activities through effective planning, budgeting, risk management and identification of financing gaps, ensuring continuous resource mobilization efforts and supporting resource allocation decisions through the Event Management Suite 2 (EMS2) structure; redesign and adapt existing operations and supply chain and logistics platforms to manage large emergency events; and strengthen linkages to regional and national emergency operations centres and national networks in order to ensure that such centres function as major strategic information hubs; The Secretariat will: convene Emergency Committees under the International Health Regulations (2005), in the case of an extraordinary public health event, which will advise the Director-General on whether to declare a public health emergency of international concern; strengthen the global emergency operations platform, building stronger national and regional networks with a focus on improving standardization and interoperability, sharing and analysing critical real-time information for strategic decision-making and coordinating, mobilizing and rapidly deploying surge personnel through Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), Emergency Medical Teams and other operational partnerships; build the global, robust and multifaceted supply chain platform required to provide essential supplies in emergencies and strengthen the Organization?s ability to rapidly initiate and sustain deep field operations by consolidating demand, coordinating purchasing, streamlining distribution, providing support on a continuum and building relevant resources at global, regional and country levels; and develop rapid, evidence-based guidance during all emergencies, convening all relevant stakeholders to address evolving challenges.