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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE-CH link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The future of financing for WHO<br>MMI statement at World Health Assembly<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>…..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you, Chair, for giving me the opportunity to address the distinguished members of the World Health Assembly on behalf of Medicus Mundi International, a Network of nongovernmental organizations working in the field of health cooperation and advocacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Upon reading the report on the WHO reforms for a healthy future, we appreciate the courage by the Director General and her staff to initiate this reform and tackle its current crisis, which is not only a financial one, but also a crisis of identity and legitimacy. We limit our contribution to the section of the Secretariat’s report dealing with Strengthening WHO’s role in global health governance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Health is a global public good that requires collective responsibility. Most problems in health systems cannot be resolved solely by the health sector, nor within a single country. Increasing policy coherence and improving global governance for health is therefore crucial.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Kindly allow us to briefly highlight the following issues:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>In the secretariat’s report, we miss a clear statement or appeal for increased national level stewardship as governance for health starts at home. We wish to plea for national level democratic debates on public health issues</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>. This is key in strengthening governance for health, and we urge governments to ensure that the people directly affected participate actively in decision-making processes. Health democracy is a pre-condition for countries to make an impact in the decision making processes within the World Health Organization and in other multilateral fora.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>At global level, the WHO faces challenges in governance. We expect the World Health Organization to re-claim its mandate as the directing and coordinating authority for the realization of the right to health and universal health coverage.</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> This role is embedded in the constitution of the WHO. However, this role has been diluted and usurped by the proliferation of new actors in the field of global health. We therefore urge member states not to allow the WHO to be consigned to becoming a 'technical' agency that is stripped of its political and legal role.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>As Civil Society Organization with a public interest, our organization and our partners contribute to health care within the national systems. We appreciate Civil Society Organizations to be included in the political debate on health and its determinants as a formal partner at both national and global level,</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> and we appreciate the spirit of inclusiveness in the related proposals by the Secretariat. We however wish to reiterate that we cannot accept any influence of the corporate private sector through financing and other means in WHO priorities and programmes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>We wish to remind the Secretariat and all Member States that it is crucial that the reform package be characterised by a process in which the space for contributions is based on the voice and needs of people, not the power of money.</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> We underline that this reform requires clear definition of actors and their roles, goals and conflict of interests. All these issues need to be addressed and clarified prior to the convening of any structured public dialogue for global health.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Lastly, the Medicus Mundi International Network recommends the formal decision-making process at the World Health Assembly to remain the prior responsibility of member states,</span></strong><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'> potentially informed by, but always independent from any world health forum advises.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>These views and concerns were discussed and shared amongst a large number of public interest groups in Delhi two weeks ago. The outcome is a “Delhi statement”, with specific recommendations, that we will be happy to share. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you very much for your attention.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>............<br>Statement by the Medicus Mundi International Network<br>to the 64th session of the World Health Assembly <br>on agenda item 11: The future of Financing for WHO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Statement delivered by Remco van de Pas, Wemos<br>member of the MMI Global Health Governance team<br>on Wednesday, 18 May 2011 (Committee A)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Download as PDF: <a href="http://bit.ly/iBqz0Z">http://bit.ly/iBqz0Z</a> <br>Online available on: <a href="http://bit.ly/j2YPss">http://bit.ly/j2YPss</a> <br>Delhi statement: <a href="http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/6053">http://www.phmovement.org/en/node/6053</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Contact for enquiries:<br></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Thomas Schwarz, Executive Secretary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Medicus Mundi International Network<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Murbacherstrasse 34, CH-4013 Basel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Phone +41 (61) 383 18 11 (MON-WED)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:schwarz@medicusmundi.org"><span style='color:black'>schwarz@medicusmundi.org</span></a><br><a href="http://www.medicusmundi.org/"><span style='color:black'>www.medicusmundi.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Sharing knowhow and joining <br>forces towards Health for All</span></i><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>