WHO Actions Towards SDGs

Mr Sharad Adhikary
Technical Officer
WHO Indonesia
SDG Commitment – “Leave No
One Behind”

SDG-3: SDG Health Agenda

“To ensure healthy lives and

promote well-being for all at
all ages”
The SDGs position health as a key
feature of human development in a
more integrated manner than was
the case for the MDGs,
emphasizing the fact that social,
economic and environmental
factors influence health and health
inequalities and, in turn, benefit
from a healthy population.
 Health Goal of SDGs
• Health is centrally placed in the 2030 Agenda.
• The health goal (SDG3) is comprehensive: ‘to ensure healthy lives
and promote well-being for all at all ages’. SDG3 builds on the
significant success of the health-related Millennium Development
Goals (MDGs).
• It recognizes an ‘unfinished MDG agenda’; it responds to new
health priorities and increasing concerns about health security, and
the health impact of migration and climate change.
• The SDG agenda recognizes that human health and well-being
depend on the political, economic and social systems, and the
natural environment, within which people live.
• It includes ‘means of implementation’ targets i.e. related to the
health systems that deliver needed services.
 Health SDG and its Targets..(1)
• reducing the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live
births;
• ending preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age;
• ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and neglected tropical
diseases and combating hepatitis, water-borne diseases and other
communicable diseases
• reducing by one third premature mortality from non-communicable
diseases through prevention and treatment and promoting mental health
and well-being;
• strengthening prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including
narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol;
• reducing halve the number of global deaths and injuries from road traffic
accidents
• ensuring universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services,
including for family planning, information and education;
 Health SDG and its Targets..(2)
• achieving UHC, including financial risk protection, access to quality essential
health-care services and access to effective and affordable essential
medicines and vaccines
• reducing the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and
air, water and soil pollution and contamination;
• strengthening the implementation of the WHO Framework Convention on
Tobacco Control in all countries;
• support the research and development of vaccines and medicines for the
communicable and non-communicable diseases that primarily affect
developing countries;
• providing access to affordable essential medicines and vaccines, in
accordance with the international agreements and rights
• increasing health financing and the recruitment, development, training and
retention of the health workforce in developing countries; and
• strengthen the capacity of all countries for early warning, risk reduction and
management of national and global health risks
 Other 16 SDGs With Their Targets
Related With Health
• eliminating gender disparities; and ensuring universal access to sexual
and reproductive health;
• equitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene;
• achieving full and productive employment and promoting of safe and
secured working environment;
• empowerment and promoting of the social, economic and political
inclusion of all;
• access and affordability to housing, transport, green spaces focused to
cities and human settlements;
• environmentally sound management of chemicals and wastes for
reduced pollution;
• education, awareness and capacity on climate change mitigation and
adaptation; and
• ending abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence;
 Going forward on the SDG health agenda in
South East Asia Region - WHO
• National consultations: a useful first step
• Universal Health Coverage: a unified approach to improving
access to care
• Avoid parallel planning processes: integrate the SDGs into
national plans
• Address the determinants of health by building on real
achievements
• Leaving no-one behind: going beyond the averages
• Partnership: towards more creative relationships with NGOs
and the private sector
• Measurement of progress and results: strengthening
accountability
 WHO’s Overall Responses
• Started WHO Reform to enhance efficiency and effectiveness in country
supports focused to health SDGs targets
• Strengthening Emergency Support Functions looking to the challenges
in upcoming global emergencies & outbreaks
• Started working on country specific SDG data profiling based on its
indicators; & for health equity monitoring regularly
• Prioritized actions on UHC, AMR and IHR with due focus to health
equity
• Increasingly working with social, economic and environmental
determinants of health; and for health in all policies
• Shifting focus more from communicable to non-communicable diseases
as disease trends & burdens are on increase from former to later
• Building collaboration with non-state actors and civil societies to
support for population health and development