Programme Budget 2024-2025

Welcome to the digital Programme budget 2024–2025!

The digital presentation of the Programme budget 2024–2025 has both familiar and new elements. Its sections can each be read independently: executive summary, outcomes, outputs, dashboards and explainers.

The executive summary provides a high-level overview of the Programme budget 2024-2025, with a link to a downloadable version of the governing bodies full document.

The outcomes page brings together key information on WHO’s outcomes: narrative, indicators, budget and funding, and links to their related outputs.

The outputs page brings together key information on WHO’s outputs: scope of work, indicators, main Secretariat’s deliverables, 2024-2025 prioritization and costing, 2020-2021 budget, financing, implementation and performance.

Two new interactive dashboards display results of the prioritization and budget costing that can be explored along various dimensions, e.g. major office.

Explainers include supporting documentation to aid comprehension and ensure an aligned understanding of the Programme budget. They focus on underlying budgetary principles, the prioritization processes and other key elements of the budget development process.

The WHO Secretariat hopes that the new Programme budget format reaches the goal to improve transparency, provide greater clarity and strengthen Secretariat’s accountability towards Member States.

Executive Summary

The Programme budget 2024–2025 is the third and last of the extended Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 13). It carries the ambitious task of getting WHO back on track to achieve the triple billion targets, while providing continuity and stability for the final phase of GPW 13 implementation.

Outcomes

The Programme budget 2024–2025 continues to use the integrated results framework of the Thirteenth General Programme of Work, 2019–2023 (GPW 13), which has been extended to 2025. The twelve outcomes contribute to the achievement of the three strategic priorities in GPW 13, and are a joint responsibility of the WHO Secretariat, Member States and partners. They constitute the backbone for organizing the work of the Secretariat and structuring its Programme budget.

Outputs

The outputs of the Secretariat’s various areas of work come together to build synergies in achieving the outcomes and accelerating progress towards achieving the triple billion targets. This results framework reflects the interconnected nature for the triple billion targets envisaged by GPW 13 and reinforced by the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dashboards

The development of the Programme budget 2024-2025 has been more consultative and country-focused than ever before. In keeping with the Secretariat’s commitment to transparency, this page features two dashboards, each focused on exploring a key dataset underlying the development of the Programme budget. The first dashboard presents the results of the output priority-setting across countries, territories and areas. The second dashboard presents the budget costing for 2024-2025 down to output level.

Explainers

Results-based management, results’ prioritization, budget costing, are central concepts in the development of the Programme budget, critical to understanding the budgeting, financing and implementation of WHO’s Programme of Work. The Secretariat’s explainers shed some light on a few chosen, key processes and how they come to life through WHO’s work.