PRIORITY 1:

Transform health systems, especially primary health care, to improve people’s health outcomes, with the focus on reaching the unreached to achieve universal health coverage and leaving no one behind.

1. Transform health systems and services to reach vulnerable communities and advocate for equity in health and health care.
2. Build a platform to collect and use data and evidence to identify unreached populations and monitor their progress.
3. Use special approaches of intensive and innovative last-mile efforts against diseases that can be eliminated or eradicated.
4. Develop and implement policies and strategies on strengthening and motivating the healthcare workforce, focusing on quantity, quality and distribution, especially frontline health care workers.
5. Develop effective health financing policies and mechanisms with increased investments in public health and primary health care.
6. Promote access to essential medicines, vaccines, and technologies with affordability and quality assurance.

PRIORITY 2:

Improve capacity to prevent, prepare for and respond to health emergencies

1. Strengthen surveillance and early warning systems through effective use of data and information from different sources.
2. Increase pandemic prevention, preparedness and response capacity, including strengthening community engagement, protecting the most vulnerable populations and reaching the unreached.
3. Strengthening leadership and coordination for health emergencies through the whole of government and whole of society approach.
4. Strengthen cooperation and coordination among Member States on prevention, preparedness and response to health emergencies.
5. Create a regional stockpile on medicines, equipment and vaccine supplies to prepare for and respond to health emergencies and facilitate technology transfer and local production.

PRIORITY 3:

Promote healthier populations as a central goal of society.

1. Transform the “sick care system” to a “health care system”, focusing more on innovative health promotion and disease prevention and strengthening primary health care.
2. Advocate for integrating innovative public health interventions into policy-making across different sectors and levels of government.
3. Accelerate implementation of health-enabling policy to address NCDs and mental health risk factors, such as “NCD-best buys”.
4. Prevent and reduce the impacts of environmental factors on people's health and harness the co-benefits with other sectors in addressing climate change and environmental impacts on health.
5. Support Member States to take early actions to address population ageing and promote healthy ageing.

PRIORITY 4:

Strengthen the “One WHO team” to support Member States:

1. Create a motivating and supportiving working environment and foster a respectful workplace culture.
2. Strengthen the effectiveness of WPRO's workforce and enhance coordination across three levels of the organization to fully utilise WHO’s potential to support Member States.

PRIORITY 5:

Strengthen partnerships – including sectors beyond health and establish new partnerships to:

1. Mobilize more financial and technical resources for health, focusing on country level.
2. Support Member States in implementing health policies and strategies at both national and sub-national levels.
3. Recognize the available technical expertise and experiences in the WPR Member States and facilitate knowledge and experience sharing and exchange among Member States.