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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Increase the effectiveness of PAHO’s governance mechanisms, facilitating strategic engagement by Member States in regional and global governing bodies.
- 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.
- Strengthen country focus presence to effectively address national priorities, including strengthening and streamlining Country Cooperation Strategies.
- Improve external and internal communications, including by making them more accessible to different audiences.
Resolution to be proposed – Program Budget of the Pan American Health Organization 2026–2027 (2025)
Resolution to be proposed – Budget Policy of the Pan American Health Organization (2025)
Resolution WHA77.1 – Fourteenth General Programme of Work, 2025–2028 (2024)
Resolution CD60.R1 – Scale of Assessed Contributions for 2024–2025 (Document CD60/5, Rev. 1) (2023)
Resolution CD60.R2 – Program Budget of the Pan American Health Organization 2024–2025 (Official Document 369) (2023)
Resolution CD60.R3 – Assessed Contributions of the Member States, Participating States, and Associate Members of the Pan American Health Organization for 2024–2025 (Official Document 369) (2023)
Resolution CD57.R2 – Strategic Plan of the Pan American Health Organization 2020-2025 (Official Document 358) (2022)
Resolution CD52.R15 – Cooperation for Health Development in the Americas (Document CD52/11) (2021)
Resolution CD57.R3 – PAHO Budget Policy (Document CD57/5) (2019)
Resolution CSP29.R2 – Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas 2018-2030 (Documents CSP29/6, Rev. 3) (2017)
Resolution CD55.R2 – Methodology for the Programmatic Priorities Stratification Framework of the PAHO Strategic Plan (Document CD55/7) (2016)
Resolution CD55.R3 – Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (Document CD55/8, Rev. 1) (2016)
Resolution CD55.R11 – Analysis of the Mandates of the Pan American Health Organization (Document CD55/18, Rev. 1) (2016)
Resolution A/RES/70/1 – Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2015)