The WHO Special Programme on Primary Health Care is pleased to announce the release of the Primary Health Care for Global Health Initiatives (PHC-GHI) Toolbox 2.0, a resource designed to align Global Health Initiatives (GHI) funding with national health strategies and primary health care (PHC) principles. This toolbox aims to address fragmentation and optimize the use of investments in responding to the global call for a radical reorientation of health systems towards PHC.
Early implementation of the prototype PHC-GHI Toolbox in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (2021–2022) provided insights on the applicability of the resources and validated its content. During that period, users noted it would assist the application of a PHC approach to programme planning for both communicable and noncommunicable diseases. Moreover, feedback received indicated there is a need to make the Toolbox more user friendly by streamlining the components and improving the navigation options. Their inputs led to inclusion of additional country and regional level resources to enable tailoring of PHC-oriented GHI support to national context, as well as examples of the specific uses of the Toolbox for the 2.0 version. ….more
