In what many global health experts describe as a “historic” move, the 75th World Health Assembly this week adopted recommendations to provide more flexible funding to the World Health Organization, including through a potential increase in member states’ assessed contributions within the next eight years.
It’s a major step toward reforming the way WHO is financed to make it more sustainable — which global health experts have spent years calling for.
Assessed contributions are annual fees that member states provide the organization, which form part of WHO’s flexible funding. This allows the organization to allocate resources across its programs as it sees fit.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
