Background

The WHO/World Bank Second international dialogue on sustainable financing for NCDs and psychological well being is a response to particular suggestions of three UN General Assembly High-level conferences (UN HLM) on NCDs held in 2011, and additional reaffirmed in UN HLMs NCD held in 2014 and 2018, which included, to “explore the provision of adequate, predictable and sustained resources, through domestic, bilateral, regional and multilateral channels, including traditional and voluntary innovative financing mechanisms”, and to “take measures to develop and implement national policies and plans, with financial and human resources allocated particularly to addressing NCDs”.

The WHO/WB Second financing dialogue is likely one of the high-level conferences WHO is cosponsoring to enter into the 2024 progress report of the UN Secretary-General and the 4th UN High-level assembly on NCDs and psychological well being in 2025. 

The WHO/WB Second financing dialogue is coorganized by WHO and the World Bank and in collaboration with different key companions.

Goal and final result doc

The WHO/WB Second financing dialogue will construct on the suggestions of the First Global Dialogue on Partnerships for Sustainable Financing of NCD Prevention and Control that befell in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2018. The dialogue will discover approaches to incorporate NCDs and psychological well being responses inside nationwide well being and financing plans. 

The aim of the WHO/WB Second financing dialogue is to outline actionable nationwide methods and create coverage suggestions that allow and improve the mixing of NCDs and psychological well being in nationwide well being financing programs. 

The final result doc of the WHO/WB Second financing dialogue will purpose to information nations in the direction of realizing the targets below SDG 3.4 by 2030. In addition to actionable nationwide methods and coverage suggestions, the result doc will set out how stakeholders can successfully align themselves to actionable nationwide methods and implement the coverage suggestions. A draft of the result doc can be ready and topic to a pre-meeting on-line session with Member States, nongovernmental entities, and regional places of work of WHO and the World Bank.

Modalities

The WHO/WB Second financing dialogue will deliver collectively as much as 120 members and embody representatives from completely different sectors (well being, finance, growth, surroundings, personal, and many others.), together with chosen Member States; the World Bank Group, WHO regional/nation places of work, and different UN organizations; and non-State actors, together with civil society and folks residing with NCDs and psychological well being situations. 

The WHO/WB Second financing dialogue will encompass a set of plenary periods to introduce the background briefs, adopted by interactive roundtable discussions to agree on the content material of the result doc. Technical background paper primarily based on a collection of thematic briefs can be developed and shared with members earlier than the WHO/WB Second financing dialogue. 

Consultation course of

WHO and the World Bank will obtain inputs to the technical background paper and the result doc from an External Technical Expert Group (ETEG) and The Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH) commissioners. The ETEG can be established and represented by tutorial and analysis establishments.   

In addition, WHO and the World Bank WB will arrange web-based multistakeholder consultations from 22 April  to twenty May 2024 to allow all events to contribute their views. The multistakeholder discussion board will comprise organizations in official relationships with WHO, financing establishments, UN companies, worldwide NGOs, and the personal sector.   

Date: 18–20 June 2024

Place: Washington D.C., USA

Language

The working language of the assembly is English with interpretation supplied in all official UN languages.

The idea notice is accessible within the hyperlinks below “Related”. Additional data, together with the assembly logistics and dealing paperwork, can be made out there shortly.