About Strategic Partnership Portal (SPP) The SPP allows countries, donors, partners, international agencies (WHO, FAO, OIE), and other relevant health security stakeholders to discern the activities and initiatives that are being carried out in countries in building IHR capacities.

WHO Strategic Partnership for Country Planning is a Unit within the Department of Country Health Emergency Preparedness and IHR established following mandate received from WHO Member States at the Cape Town meeting, and further resolution WHA69.21 under the new WHO Health Emergencies (WHE) Programme. Its responsibility is to coordinate WHO support and facilitate countries in mobilizing and tracking international financial and in-kind support for national action plan. It has also developed Strategic Partnership Portal (SPP) in order to establish a collective, coherent and synergistic approach among national and international stakeholders supporting JEE mission and to develop, implement and support global and national preparedness plan. The G7 supports the WHO SPP and at the recent G7 meeting in Japan, the G7 countries agreed to use of the WHO SPP in tracking the G7’s IHR investments in 76 countries (see the G7 reference to the WHO SPP - URL LINK)

It brings together expertise of relevant departments within and outside the WHO Health Emergency Program (the IHR secretariat team, Influenza team, Anti-microbial Resistance team, Infectious Diseases team such as Cholera, the Country Emergency Preparedness team including all hazard preparedness such as disaster emergency team, and working closely with the health system strengthening cluster such as health financing team, Universal Health Coverage 2030 team, Health Service Delivery and Safety and Quality and UHC, and health information management team) to provide integrated cross-departmental/disciplinary support to a country in developing action plan for IHR capacity development.