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.