This outcome incorporates strategic leadership, governance, and advocacy functions to reinforce PAHO’s leading role in health development in the Region. It includes effective health leadership through convening, agenda-setting, and partnership building. Work toward this outcome includes championing health for all in support of Member States through effective development and implementation of technical cooperation agendas and collaboration with key partners. Specifically, the following actions will be implemented under this outcome:

1. Foster collaboration, cohesion, and engagement as an honest broker to catalyze and drive collective action among Member States and partners in health and non-health sectors, providing evidence and proposing solutions to address current and emerging public health challenges and improve health and well-being for all.
2. Champion and advocate for the attainment of the highest level of health for all in key policy and multilateral political and technical forums in support of Member States through the effective development and implementation of technical cooperation agendas.
3. Promote and strengthen partnerships, collaboration, and coordination among countries, international organizations (including other UN agencies and programs), and other actors to tackle regional health challenges more effectively and ensure health and well-being outcomes are prioritized in policy agendas.
4. Promote cooperation among countries for health development through South-South and triangular cooperation, fostering subregional and interregional exchanges to strengthen knowledge sharing, capacity building, and collective action in tackling shared challenges and advancing national, regional, and global goals to achieve sustainable development.
5. Increase the effectiveness of PAHO’s governance mechanisms, facilitating strategic engagement by Member States in regional and global governing bodies.
6. Ensure that the PAHO funding model promotes a more sustainable and resilient financing approach with improved predictability, sustainability, and flexibility of funds to respond to priorities and needs defined with Member States.
7. Strengthen country focus presence to effectively address national priorities, including strengthening and streamlining Country Cooperation Strategies.
8. Improve external and internal communications, including by making them more accessible to different audiences. 

Key Interventions

Strengthen PAHO’s governance by facilitating more effective intergovernmental negotiations among Member States and improving the exchange of strategic information to drive collective action.

Strengthen strategic partnerships and external engagement to enhance PAHO’s positioning as the partner of choice for health in the Region of the Americas, while contributing to resource mobilization efforts focused on securing more flexible and predictable funding.

Increase PAHO’s communications capacity across all organizational levels to enhance the effectiveness, impact, and visibility of its mission.

Develop and implement Country Cooperation Strategies to strengthen the country focus approach.