20 December 2024 was a vital second for Luxembourg in supporting WHO and strengthening international public well being, to make progress in direction of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives in 2025–2028. A Strategic Partnership Framework (SPF) with the Ministry of Improvement Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs was signed amounting to €46.5 million – the largest-ever settlement WHO has had with Luxembourg. Moreover, the first-ever multiyear settlement with the Ministry of Well being and Social Security €1 million was launched, because the nation’s first voluntary contribution to WHO.
“From now until 2028, this contribution will assist finance precedence areas in Luxembourg’s collaboration with WHO” stated Martine Deprez, Minister of Well being and Social Security throughout the bilateral assembly, “notably for sanitary disaster preparedness and response and the combat in opposition to well being inequalities, with a particular give attention to gender.”
The quantity of €46.5 million accommodates absolutely versatile and thematic funding, and allocations for the Common Well being Protection Partnership, tropical illness analysis and polio eradication. The absolutely versatile funding permits WHO to allocate the cash to the areas of highest want.
By signing two new partnership agreements, we’ve reaffirmed Luxembourg’s continued assist for the WHO and its mission. This displays our robust dedication to selling international well being and multilateralism. We launch these agreements with WHO as a result of we imagine the easiest way to keep away from is to forestall.”
Xavier Bettel, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of International and European Affairs, Cooperation and International Commerce
To assist the achievement of WHO’s priorities, the strategic partnership framework with Luxembourg consists of assist for WHO’s core work to develop, ship and implement high-quality technical merchandise – the rules, norms and requirements on which many nations rely.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-Normal, remarked how symbolic it was that the agreements have been signed on the Worldwide Day of Solidarity. They’re “a powerful assertion of solidarity by Luxembourg, not simply with WHO, however with the folks of the world”, stated Dr. Tedros.
WHO and Luxembourg proceed their historic strategic partnership, collaborating to meet a shared mission to advertise, present and defend well being.
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