This report provides a diagnostic assessment and snapshot of the organisational performance of the World Health Organization (WHO) within its mandate.
The assessment period (2019-23) was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which presented WHO with its greatest-ever challenges, while also helping reinforce its role as the leading global health institution. It afforded WHO an opportunity to demonstrate its speed and agility in responding to an unprecedented global crisis and to invest more energy into its partnerships and global health diplomacy, build new co-ordination and funding mechanisms, and strengthen its capacity-building support for developing country members.
