CSOS

Multiple WHA resolutions, most notably from WHA 69 and 70, recognize the valuable role CSOs play. To uphold these resolutions, the Task Team recommends that Member States proactively engage CSOs operating in their country to understand their objectives and activities and identify opportunities for collaboration and mutual support, particularly in policy and strategy setting processes... The Task Team recommends that CSOs work together through existing CSO platforms and leverage individual relationships to communicate the full breadth of values they bring and their commitment to shared goals, encouraging WHO and Member States to proactively engage CSOs. CSOs should actively participate in, and be jointly responsible for, WHO-CSO engagement training and the creation of national roadmaps... The WHO-Civil Society Task Team was established in January 2018 at the invitation of WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, with the goal of building a set of bold, creative..