- Leadership and political commitment: WHO champions policy reforms, innovative approaches and stronger internal as well as external partnerships to promote rights and equity in access to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) and older person health services, particularly for the most vulnerable groups. Recent Regional Committee sessions have featured ministerial events and endorsed strategic actions to expand equitable access to SRMNCAH services, and, in collaboration with PMNCH and Africa CDC, efforts are underway to secure a permanent African Union Summit agenda on women, children and adolescent health.
- Normative guidance and quality of care: WHO works to expand access to and uptake of its normative and technical products to enable integrated, people-centered SRMNCAH and older person health services, and supports countries to adopt and implement standards and tools that improve point-of-care quality for SRMNCAH and healthy ageing, through strong partnerships and cross-sector collaboration.
- Multisectoral action: WHO is deepening health sector stewardship of multisectoral action to address the social, environmental and commercial determinants of health, especially for vulnerable groups. For adolescent health and well-being in particular, countries are shifting to integrated, multi-sectoral programming involving the health, education and social sectors, aligned with the AU Decade of Education and Skills Development (2025–2034), with WHO and partner support.
- Intercountry learning and exchange: WHO facilitates inter-country learning to scale innovations and reduce inequities across the life course, including in early childhood development. Examples include self-care, antenatal care (ANC) digital application kits, scaling up use of the WHO smart dIMCI course, and multisector collaboration in action for early childhood development and adolescent health.
- Healthy ageing: WHO promotes health and well-being in older age, including through the healthy ageing framework (2021–2030) endorsed by African Health Ministers in 2021, which has led countries to develop national strategies and enact age discrimination laws.
- Monitoring and accountability: WHO promotes robust monitoring and accountability frameworks to ensure sustained improvements, strengthening accountability through efficient monitoring, tracking and reporting of progress.
- Regional goods: Multiple regional goods and guidance documents have been co-developed with Member States and partners to advance health and well-being for all.
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