This week more than 260 of WHO’s leaders from headquarters, regional and country offices gathered in Geneva to discuss how to transform WHO into an organization that is better able to deliver meaningful improvements in health to the world’s people.
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本组织新任总干事谭德塞博士首次有机会在同一个会议室与所有高层领导举行面对面会议。
It was first time that WHO’s newDirector-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had the opportunity to meet face-to-face with all senior leadership in the same room.
They gathered for the ninth bi-annual Global Meeting of heads of WHO country offices, which drove an agenda to return WHO’s focus to strengthen its work at country level.
“This was an unprecedented opportunity to have leadership from all levels, including the most recent senior leaders to join the WHO team, together at one time to chart the future course of our work in countries throughout the world,” said Shambhu Acharya, WHO’s Director of Country Cooperation and Coordination with the United Nations System.
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有一种真正的求变力量和愿望，人们可以在三天的讨论和工作组活动中感受到。”
“There was a real spirit of energy and appetite for change, you could feel it in in the discussions and working groups throughout the three days.”
The meeting also included contributions from key partners, including the United Nations Development Programme, the International Committee of the Red Cross, GAVI and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, who all expressed their renewed commitment to working with WHO to tackle global health challenges.
Director-General Dr Tedros introduced the new senior leadership team, highlighted achievements from his first 120 days in office, and outlined the next steps to gather input from WHO’s country representatives on the draft thirteenth General Programme of Work, and the draft Transformation Plan and Architecture that will guide organizational change over the next years.
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总部、区域和国家办事处的领导者在整个会议期间讨论了世卫组织在国家一级工作的具体挑战和解决办法。
Throughout the meeting leaders from headquarters, regional and country offices discussed the specific challenges and solutions to WHOs work at country level.