1. WHO Country Office, Ghana
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP PORTAL: Building Stronger Health Systems for Sustainable Health Security
John Ojo
WHO Country Office, Ghana

2. Outline Background What is the Strategic Partnership Portal (SPP)?
Why is the SPP so important?
IHR, JEE, and SPP – The Winning Team
Who Uses the SPP?
Strategic Partnership Portal Demo
Conclusion

3. Background July 2015: High-level meeting in Cape Town, South Africa
Theme: ‘Building Health Security Beyond Ebola’
Member States and partners called for WHO to:
- Take the lead in the coordination of global health security work
- Provide a road map for this work and
- Develop a tool for donor and partner coordination
WHO has developed that tool: a web-based portal called the
Strategic Partnership Portal (SPP)
Cape Town, South Africa

4. Identifies the specific needs and gaps each country faces in
What is the Strategic Partnership Portal?
A tool that allows countries, donors, partners, international agencies and other health security stakeholders to know the activities and initiatives being carried out in countries in building international health regulations (IHR) capacities.
Identifies the specific
needs and gaps each
country faces in
building its IHR
capacities.
Provides comprehensive,
up-to-date reporting of
the contributions made
by donors and partners
The SPP is a great way
to showcase to the
global community the
support each partner is
providing to advance
IHR capacities in the country
Helps potential donors
know precisely which areas
of the IHR are not receiving
enough attention and thus
Provides an evidence-based
investment decision making.

5. Why Is the SPP so Important?

6. Why is the SPP so Important
Why is the SPP so Important? 1/4 Multiple commitments to address global health security
G7 - support IHR in 76 countries
USAID’s EPT2 Program
G8 Global Partnership’s Biosafety Biosecurity
One Health
Influenza Partnership
G20 - Stop Ebola and Strengthen Global Health Security
Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)
World Bank’s framework for financing preparedness

7. Why the SPP is so important 2/4 Prevents risk of overlapping investments and duplication
In the past, donor initiatives ran the risk of “overlapping investment” as a result of
Lack of visibility of country needs
Lack of interagency coordination
May result in duplication
Added value of the SPP
Promotes interagency coordination, communication & collaboration (3C’s)
Overlapping investments prevented
Duplication of effort prevented

8. Why the SPP is so important 3/4 The SPP is a real game changer
Strategic Partnership Portal
Financial Contributions
Non-Funding Contributions
Why the SPP is so important 3/4 The SPP is a real game changer
Using the SPP and linking with WHO’s network of over 100 donor contacts, the investments made by donor initiatives can be better aligned to contribute to a country’s real needs and gaps.
Donor contributions aligned to Country’s needs & Gaps

9. Why the SPP is so important 4/4 A powerful advocacy & resource mobilization tool

10. World Health Organization
28 May 2018
IHR, JEE, and SPP – The Winning Team
NAP
Donor Contribution
Linked to National Planning & Budget Cycle
Country Needs/Gaps
SPP
External financing
Domestic financing
Develop and Cost Country Plan
IHR
Self Assessment
Country
WHO Recommendation
The goal of the meeting is to bring together key national, regional and international stakeholders needed to establish a common framework of action needed to support, coordinate and intensify the strategic development and maintenance of health security preparedness.
WHO Experts
Joint External Evaluation
Rostered Experts

11. Funding the National Action Plan: an example
World Health Organization
28 May 2018
Funding the National Action Plan: an example
Donor Contribution
SPP
Country Needs/Gaps
US$10,000,000
National Action Plan
External financing
The goal of the meeting is to bring together key national, regional and international stakeholders needed to establish a common framework of action needed to support, coordinate and intensify the strategic development and maintenance of health security preparedness.
US$60,000,000
US$100,000,000
Domestic financing
US$30,000,000

12. The Strategic Partnership Portal demo https://extranet. who

13. The SPP maps who is investing where
Donors and the countries they support in the Africa Region

14. The Strategic Partnership Portal demo https://extranet. who

15. Donor contribution flow https://extranet.who.int/donorportal

16. The Strategic Partnership Portal demo https://extranet. who

17. The Strategic Partnership Portal demo https://extranet. who

18. Countries in AFRO with a SPP
Focal Point
Who Uses the SPP?
Selected countries in 3 WHO regions: AFRO, EMRO and EURO
Currently 11 countries in the Afro region:
Cameroon
Cote D'Ivoire
Ethiopia
Gambia
Ghana
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Senegal
Tanzania
Uganda
AMRO and SEARO in discussions to join

19. The SPP and the donor community
June 2016: High-level meeting in Bali, Indonesia
Theme: ‘Advancing Global Health Security: From Commitments to Actions’
The SPP presented to delegates
- 250 participants, 52 countries, 28 international organizations
Tool well accepted, delegates commended WHO
The SPP would assist donors to make informed investment decisions
Bali, Indonesia

20. Conclusion
The Strategic Partnership Portal aligns donor contributions to a country’s real needs and gaps.
The SPP assists IHR implementation through enhanced donor/country coordination & interagency coordination.
Using the SPP will open countries to rich sources of funding for their IHR core capacities development and hence build stronger health systems for sustainable health security.

21. Thank You
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