Dar es Salaam, 27 April 2022 – The World Neatly being Organization (WHO) Tanzania Country Office launched the third WHO Country Cooperation Map (CCS). The technique launched offers a roadmap for WHO toughen to the United Republic of Tanzania for the following 5 years (2022-2027).

The inaugurate occasion took region at the Nyerere World Convention Centre in Dar es Salaam and gathered senior authorities officers from Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar, representatives of sister UN Companies, Ambassadors, successfully being companions, and individuals of the media. Reward to computer screen and officiate the inaugurate were the two successfully being Ministers, Hon. Ummy Mwalimu (MP) and Hon. Nassoro Mazrui; Deputy Permanent Secretary from the Ministry of Crew Trend, Gender, Females and Particular Teams; consultant from the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government Tanzania (PO-RALG) and the United Nations Resident Coordinator, Mr. Zlatan Milišić.

Remarks from the total audio system applauded the Government of Tanzania for the sturdy leadership and demanding advances in bettering successfully being and the wellbeing of its individuals. WHO turn into once also commended for supporting the successfully being sector attain and withhold foremost enhancements within the successfully being of the nation by diagram of enforcing two Cooperation Strategies.

“I commend the sturdy partnership between WHO, diversified sister UN Companies and the Ministry of Neatly being in Mainland and Zanzibar which has facilitated shipping of complimentary mandates. This Country Cooperation Map is due to this fact timely as all of us bear the responsibility to work collectively. I’m confident that by diagram of persisted partnership, the successfully being sector will be in a web website online to meet its ambitious targets towards bettering the successfully being and successfully-being of the inhabitants,” said the UN Resident Coordinator.

“WHO has been working carefully with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar by diagram of the Ministry of Neatly being by availing resources for implementation of the Neatly being Sector Strategic Notion III and contributed to well-known reduction within the morbidity and mortality of below 5 adolescents and demanding reduction of malaria morbidity and mortality rates. We’re happy that this CCS has does no longer handiest acknowledge to country needs and priorities nonetheless also addresses the vision of offering excessive-quality livelihoods to its individuals, as said the Tanzania Trend Imaginative and prescient 2025 and Zanzibar’s Imaginative and prescient 2050,” said Hon. Nassoro Mazrui, the Minister of Neatly being in Zanzibar.

In her remarks, the Minister of Neatly being in Mainland, Honorable Ummy Mwalimu who turn into once the guest of honor, highlighted the relevance of having a cooperation technique and cited achievements realized within the field by diagram of toughen of successfully being companions.

“Tanzania has been winning in reducing new child and baby mortality, apart from childhood malnutrition. Mortality due to predominant communicable ailments including HIV, Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria, is reducing. The assortment of successfully being facilities has nearly doubled, and medicines change into a lot extra accessible. Domestic funding for successfully being has doubled within the final decade nonetheless falls wanting growing score admission to to quality fancy all. Governance of the successfully being sector turn into once bolstered by diagram of decentralisation by devolution. The contribution of companions fancy the World Neatly being Organization (WHO) within the conclusion of the vision, targets and targets region by the Government is well-known”, said the Minister.

“Despite this growth, quit-timeframe overview of the HSSP IV confirmed that, in service shipping no longer all targets of had been met in the case of enchancment of successfully being web website online of the inhabitants, e.g. in maternal and neonatal successfully being, or adolescent successfully being. Gather entry to to successfully being care is no longer yet equitable. The expand in successfully being infrastructure has no longer gone hand in hand with the expand in human resources for successfully being. The successfully being financing technique turn into once no longer applied, and the inhabitants covered by successfully being insurance stays within the support of expectations” she added.

“We’re happy that the Country Cooperation Map (CCS) being launched this present day, will no longer handiest acknowledge to the unfinished replace of the HSSP IV nonetheless also aligns with the vision of HSSP V which is to bear a healthy and prosperous society that contributes fully to the enchancment of individuals and the nation. On the present time, I pledge my persisted cooperation in making obvious that implementation of this scheme turns into a actuality,” she concluded.

With an estimated worth range of US$ 73 million, WHO’s toughen within the following 5 years will specialise in:

• Strengthening successfully being systems to assemble particular universal score admission to to quality reproductive, maternal, new child, baby and adolescent successfully being (RMNCAH) and diversified well-known successfully being services.
• Maintaining communities against emergencies of infectious ailments and diversified public successfully being events.
• Lowering exposure of individuals to threat factors that threaten their successfully being and successfully-being.
• Bettering efficiencies within the successfully being sector by diagram of better, equitable successfully being governance, leadership, and accountability.

WHO Tanzania Representative, Dr. Tigest Ketsela Mengestu acknowledged the efforts and contributions that ended in the enchancment of the technique. 

“On the present time, WHO renews its commitment to collaborate with the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania for the following 5 years towards reaching successfully being sector targets in bettering the successfully being of its inhabitants and bringing in transformative changes within the successfully being sector. We’re confident that working collectively and guided by this scheme, the Ministry of Neatly being, WHO and successfully being companions in Tanzania will make contributions towards a long-established mission to promote successfully being, support the world real and again the inclined.

The CCS reflects WHO’s predominant reform agenda outlined in its 13th Frequent Programme of Work (GPW13) (2019-2023) and the WHO African Regional Transformation Agenda, which aim to toughen score admission to to universal successfully being coverage, better supply protection to individuals from successfully being emergencies, and toughen individuals’s successfully being and successfully-being.