Working for Health in the Caribbean. PAHO/WHO Subregional Cooperation Strategy 2016-2019

Abstract

The Subregional Cooperation Strategy (SCS) for the Caribbean, 2016-2019, of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) sets out the issues, strategic priorities and outcomes that the organisation’s technical cooperation (TC) in the sub-region will address for the stated period. The subregional level of TC complements country and regional TC, focusing on the production of subregional public goods that contribute to the achievement of the health and development objectives of PAHO/WHO’s Member States. These objectives are aligned with national priorities at country level. In addition, they are articulated in the health agendas of the inter-governmental integration mechanisms to which the Member States belong, and in their international agreements and commitments in health. The development of the SCS comes at an opportune time, enabled by: the close of the previous SCS 2010-2015 and the Caribbean Cooperation in Health, Phase III (CCH III), the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM’s) health agenda, to which the SCS responded; the guidance provided by the CARICOM Strategic Plan 2015-2019; the formulation of CCH IV; the finalisation of the United Nations (UN) 2030 development agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successors to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs); the start of implementation of the PAHO Program Budget 2016-2017 and planning for the 2018-2019 cycle, both of which make operational the 2014-2019 PAHO Strategic Plan and WHO General Program of Work...