WHO Mid-Term Results Report 2022

WHO is marking its 75th anniversary this year, with its 194 Member States and partners, by calling for a renewed drive for health equity. The past seven and a half decades have seen extraordinary progress in protecting people from diseases, health risks and harms. However, as this report shows, further progress is needed to achieve the triple billion targets towards attaining the health-related Sustainable Development Goals and meeting other health challenges, such as mental health, antimicrobial resistance and climate change.

Five years ago WHO set out to enhance its focus on measurable impacts in countries, with the Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2023 (GPW 13),  which was subsequently extended to 2025. During this time, the Organization set measurable triple billion targets based on the Sustainable Development Goals; established a results framework to measure country progress and identify the contribution of the Secretariat; reported annually using the framework; launched delivery stock takes to track progress and identify ways for the Secretariat to provide support to countries using specific indicators; developed and revised the first WHO investment case; and continue to help countries to accelerate progress through scaling up innovation, innovative financing, and strengthening collaboration among multilateral agencies.

This mid-term review of implementation of the Programme budget 2022–2023 presents the progress in 2022 towards the triple billion targets, outcomes and outputs, based on the GPW 13 results framework, which includes indicators. As various evaluations have recommended simplifying the output monitoring process, this report includes progress on deliverables planned for the biennium with the main results that have emerged in the first year of the biennium as reported by the output delivery teams,  leaving the more extensive programmatic assessment using the output scorecard for the end of biennium. In addition, key accomplishments are highlighted based on a selection by senior management and selected impact case studies are presented to exemplify how the Secretariat and Member States work together to drive health impacts at the country level, where it matters most.