The development of the third generation CCS for Zimbabwe for the period
2016-2020 was guided by the WHO 2016 Guide for the Formulation of the
Country Cooperation Strategy.
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The 2016-2020 CCS is a result of intensive
and extensive consultation with a wide range of organizations and
individuals. These include officials from the Ministry of Health and Child
Care; UN agencies; bilateral and multilateral agencies; civil society and
nongovernmental organizations (CSOs & NGOs); organizations
representing vulnerable and marginalized communities; collaborating
centres; and the private sector. The development of this strategy was also
guided by the unfinished agenda of the UN Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs), the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the WHO global
priorities, the WHO African Region orientations, the Zimbabwe United
Nations Development Assistance Framework (ZUNDAF), and other
relevant regional and subregional initiatives. It also takes into consideration
the importance of national development strategies as outlined in the
Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socioeconomic Transformation (ZimAsset),
the new National Health Strategy (NHS 2016-2020) and standards
on the right to health ratified by the country.
Based on the outcome of the various consultations undertaken, WHO will
concentrate its broad strategic agenda over the next five years in five
priority areas: (a) achieving and sustaining universal health coverage
(UHC) through a revitalized primary health care (PHC) approach and
sustainable service delivery through strengthening of health systems. (b)
accelerating achievement of the unfinished MDGs relating to reduction of
maternal, newborn, child and adolescent mortality; and strengthening
sexual and reproductive health; (c) reducing further the burden of AIDS,
tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, hepatitis, and other
communicable diseases; (d) strengthening and re-orienting health and
health-related systems to address the prevention and control of NCDs,
including disabilities, injuries and mental health disorders, and the
underlying social determinants through people-centred primary health care
and UHC; and (e) strengthening preparedness, surveillance and effective
response to disease outbreaks, acute public health emergencies and the
effective management of health-related aspects of humanitarian disasters
in order to improve health security.