Participants are encouraged to provide comments -- based on the top line questions asked -- on the introduction and the seven main chapters that make up the Global Plan. The consultation period will run through 10 August 2015.

10 June 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership is today launching the online consultation into the first public draft of the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020. The consultation process is open to everyone to share information, ideas and experiences, and, will run from 10 June to 10 August 2015.
 
The development of the Global Plan seeks to be as inclusive as possible and the online consultation aims to reflect a diverse range of input in the Plan update, including the voices of people and professional groups and TB constituencies who may not have been reached previously.
 
Participants are encouraged to provide comments -- based on the top line questions asked -- on the introduction and the seven main chapters that make up the Global Plan.
 
If the Global Plan succeeds in reflecting the ambitions and aspirations of people fighting TB around the world, and manages to build a solid and engaging business case for why the world can save millions of lives and billions of dollars by scaling up the fight against the disease, it can become a forceful tool in advocacy, planning and budgeting.
 
Since its creation, the Stop TB Partnership has issued five and ten-year Global Plans to provide a road map for concerted global advocacy action, and to provide an estimate for the resources needed to achieve the goals that the world has set.

The current Global Plan provides a “business case” for the period 2016-2020 for the investment needed to set the world on the right track to reach the WHO End TB Strategy goals by 2035. It is meant as an instrument for those working with TB and those allocating funding, setting realistic budgets and making national plans.

To achieve WHO’s End TB Strategy goals, significant changes need to be made to the way most countries organize and run their TB interventions and programmes, and we need to see significant acceleration in research and development of new drugs, diagnostics tools and a vaccine.

In addition to this online consultation, the Global Plan to Stop TB 2016-2020 is informed by the outcomes of four regional consultation meetings held in Addis Ababa (6 May), Bangkok (23 June), Istanbul (23-24 July) and Panama (tbc – 1 September).

The Global Plan will launch at the end of the year in Cape Town, South Africa during the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health.

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 ***REMINDER: DEADLINE 4 JUNE TO SEND COMMENTS TO WHO ON DRAFT GLOBAL PLAN OF ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, GIRLS AND CHILDREN***

Development of a draft global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence, in particular against women and girls, and against children.

Resolution WHA67.15 adopted at last year's World Health Assembly requested the Director-General to “develop, with the full participation of Member States, and in consultation with United Nations organizations, and other relevant stakeholders focusing on the role of the health system, as appropriate, a draft global plan of action to strengthen the role of the health system within a national multisectoral response to address interpersonal violence in particular against women and girls and against children, building on existing relevant WHO work”.

WHO has put in place a consultative process, including an online consultation process, for the development of a global action plan and NGOs are invited to contribute comments throughout the process, starting with:

First WHO Discussion Paper

The WHO Secretariat published a first WHO Discussion Paper containing a zero draft action plan, which serves as a basis for:

1. a web-based consultation open to Member States, UN Agencies, NGOs, WHO Collaborating Centres, academics and other non-State actors.
2. regional informal consultations with Member States which will take place in the WHO regions between March and June 2015 
3. an informal consultation with non-State actors on 3 June 2015 
4. an informal consultation with Member States (Permanent Missions in Geneva) and UN Agencies on 4 June 2015 

Member States, UN Agencies, NGOs, WHO Collaborating Centres, academics and NGOs are invited to share their comments on the first WHO Discussion Paper by sending an email before 4 June 2015 to violencegap@who.int 

The WHO Secretariat will publish all contributions received by email on this website. (WHO reserves the right to summarize and/or edit any submission in consultation with the submitting party).

Second WHO Discussion Paper

Taking into account the comments received on the first WHO Discussion Paper, the WHO Secretariat will issue a second WHO Discussion Paper, containing a first draft of the action plan, inJuly 2015 which will serve as an input into:

1. meetings of the Regional Committees (August – October 2015).
2. a web-based consultation open to Member States, UN Agencies, NGOs, WHO Collaborating Centres, academics and NGOs – all contributions will be published on a dedicated website.

Third WHO Discussion Paper

Taking into account the comments received on the second WHO Discussion Paper, the WHO Secretariat will issue a third WHO Discussion Paper, containing a second draft of the action plan, during the second half of October 2015, which will serve as an input into a Formal Meeting of Member States from 23 to 27 November 2014 to conclude the work on the development of a global plan of action.

Final draft global plan of action

It is envisaged that the Report resulting from the Formal Meeting of Member States will include a final draft global plan of action which will be transmitted to the WHO Executive Board inJanuary 2016 and the World Health Assembly in 2016 for consideration by Member States.

Downloadable version of the First Discussion Paper containing Draft