10. Resource mobilization for WHO's Health Emergencies Programme (WHE) and work under Billion 2 is an integral part of WHO's resource mobilization strategy to deliver the Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2025 (GPW 13)
20. WHO's resource mobilization is centralized and managed by the Department of Coordinated Resource Mobilization (CRM) within WHO's External Relations and Governance (EXT) division. Within CRM, the Engagement for Health Emergencies (EHE) team works with humanitarian partners to raise funding for WHE. EHE works closely with WHE, including with the Office of the Executive Director, the Strategic Planning and Partnerships (SPP) team and other departments and teams.
30. In coordination with WHE's SPP, EHE leads resource mobilization plans, donor engagement and outreach for acute events, emergency operations and core funding.
40. CRM, and EHE in particular, mobilizes financial resources in a transparent and coordinated manner for the Programme Budget, including for the budget's core component and the outbreak and crises response (OCR) component.
50. OCR is generally raised against humanitarian appeals under the WHO's Health Emergency Appeal (HEA) umbrella, which aims to protect one billion people from health emergencies. This annual global appeal covers WHO's consolidated funding requirement for the OCR component of the budget as planned for at the beginning of a calendar year to meet emergency and humanitarian health response needs in every region. The HEA is based on an annual bottom-up OCR operational planning process, with periodic updates provided when any significant scale-up is required for an ongoing WHO response or a new acute onset emergency. Throughout any given year, add-on flash appeals are developed for new/acute emergency response operations and hosted on the Health Emergency Appeal landing page.
60. Financial resources for WHE are also raised through the Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE), WHE's internal fund, to provide funding to acute events in 24 hours or less when other funding is unavailable. As the CFE, which depends on voluntary contributions from Member States, is to be used for immediate responses, it is not a mechanism to fill funding gaps or sustain protracted responses. CFE allocations to emergencies should be reimbursed to the extent possible by country offices from contributions raised for the response. A donor alert/appeal should be issued, and a resource mobilization effort should be initiated in parallel to or immediately following a request for CFE funding. Activities financed through the CFE must be included in proposals to donors to facilitate reimbursement of the CFE. More information on the CFE can be found on the CFE web page and eManual XVII.3.21 Contingency Fund for Emergencies (CFE).
70. WHO must implement financial contributions per the terms of agreements and proposals. Additionally, donor engagement and resource mobilization efforts must comply with resource mobilization policies, standard operating procedures, and WHO's rules concerning Delegation of Authority. Implementing the funded project presents an opportunity to demonstrate WHO's commitment to results and ability to deliver impact. This enables WHO to draw in new, as well as repeat, contributions, improve the quality of funding and increase the predictability and flexibility of resources.
80. Information about general policies and procedures for mobilizing resources through all stages of the process, from initiating proposals to approving agreements, can be found in WHO eManual IV.1 Mobilizing Resources from Donors.
Standard agreement templates
(Resource management templates can also be found on the Contributor Engagement Management (CEM) system)
90. CRM negotiates standard agreements to ensure maximum management flexibility and minimum reporting requirements and align with WHO policies and procedures. Standard agreements also streamline the clearance process.
Concept note and proposal templates
100. WHO has standard templates for concept notes and emergency funding proposals. A concept note, which briefly summarizes WHO’s emergency operations, health priorities and overall funding requirements in countries, is useful for presenting to donors that express a tentative interest in funding WHO’s emergency work. If donors subsequently confirm their intention to contribute funds, a full proposal is developed that includes a project overview, health needs and WHO’s planned response.
