A more independent and high-performing WHO • A WHO Working Group recommendation to the World Health Assembly for WHO Member States to provide flexible funding to WHO and to increase assessed contributions to the base program budget to 50% from the most recent 16%. [...] On political leadership • Efforts of the five co-chairs of the Second Global COVID-19 Summit, the G7 and G20, the UN General Assembly’s high-level dialogue on vaccine access, and regional leadership at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention demonstrate what can happen when political leaders commit to change. [...] • Many of the other recommendations the Panel made to strengthen WHO — including limiting the tenure of the Director-General and Regional Directors to one seven-year term, improving WHO staff performance, and depoliticising appointments including at senior levels — have no clear plan for implementation. [...] For the proposed pandemic fund, a shift is required to a formula where each country contributes based on what it can afford to pay, with the secure knowledge that in return, all countries receive the funds necessary to be prepared for a pandemic and to respond in an emergency. [...] • The most urgent issue — that of giving WHO the authority to report and investigate threats rapidly using the precautionary principle as warranted — is currently too reliant on reforms to the IHR.
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The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
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