Parliament Engagement Consultant

https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl?job=2400023Legal frameworks, underpinned by sound ethical foundations, are essential for advancing universal health coverage and achieving health in the Sustainable Development Goals. The Western Pacific Regional Action Agenda on Strengthening Legal Frameworks for Health in the Sustainable Development Goals was endorsed by Member States at the 69th session of the Regional Committee Meeting for the Western Pacific in October 2018. The action agenda provides guidance to WHO and countries on prioritising action areas, improving processes, and enhancing capacities of stakeholders. The latter is a key priority for HLE, which engages partners and stakeholders within the health sector and beyond to support and build capacities to advance legal frameworks for health and achieve broader health priorities.
Parliamentarians, through their core functions of law-making, budgeting, and oversight, as well as their mandates to represent constituencies, foster multisectoral action, and engage in international partnerships, can play a critical role in advancing health. For these reasons, engaging with political leaders is a key strategy to address the region’s future health challenges, as articulated in WPRO’s For the Future vision.
The Asia-Pacific Parliamentarian Forum on Global Health (APPFGH) is a platform for parliamentarians to exchange ideas, build political will, strengthen capacities, and foster collaboration in driving sustainable action for health. The APPFGH aims to empower parliamentarians in shaping global health mandates to reflect regional and domestic priorities, and in ensuring national implementation of international health commitments. Participation in the APPFGH is open to the 30 countries comprising the Member States of the WHO Western Pacific Region and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Each country is represented by a parliamentary body designated for APPFGH engagement or a standing health committee.
The Forum has met in-person on six occasions, in the Republic of Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and Fiji. Meetings have addressed key priorities in global health, achieving high-level political commitment to action in areas such as global health security, Universal Health Coverage, noncommunicable diseases and healthy ageing, climate change and health, and health security. The seventh meeting will be held in 2023 in Mongolia on the theme of Primary Health Care.
HLE supports capacity building among Member States and other partners through a range of internal and external fora and support mechanisms. These include the Asia Pacific Network of National Ethics/Bioethics Committees, a platform to discuss priority issues in health ethics and promote partnerships for strengthening ethics capacities.
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