Africa Knowledge Management Portal
Informing health decisions and actions
Description
The present document was prepared in response to decision EB140(4) and is based on inputs received from WHO country offices, the regional offices for Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and South-East Asia, together with relevant departments at headquarters. Common templates and structured interviews were provided to solicit inputs for the report, an initial draft of which was presented to a meeting of Member States on 28 April 2017. This report limits itself to a short summary section in respect of human resource risks and associated mitigation efforts, since these issues are already included in the Annex to document A70/14. That Annex should be read in conjunction with this report to obtain a holistic understanding of the human resources, programmatic and financial risks arising from polio transition, and in order to inform the debate under the agenda subitem on polio transition planning, for which this report has been prepared.