Background

The Global Health and Peace Initiative is a WHO-led initiative launched in November 2019 by Oman and Switzerland following a multilateral consultation in Geneva attended by more than 50 representatives of 24 countries and partners. In May 2022, the Seventy-fifth World Health Assembly (WHA) adopted decision WHA75(24), which requested that WHO develop, in full consultation with Member States and Observers, and in full collaboration with other organizations of the United Nations system and relevant non-State actors in official relations with WHO, a Roadmap, if any, for the Global Health and Peace Initiative for consideration by the Seventy-sixth WHA through the 152nd session of the Executive Board.

In May 2023, Member States at the Seventy-sixth WHA adopted decision WHA76(12)3 on the GHPI. This decision took note of and requested the Director General to report on progress made on strengthening the Roadmap for the GHPI as a living document through consultat...