Publication details
Roadmap for health and well-being in Central Asia (2022–2025)
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
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| Description | The Roadmap for Health and Well-being in Central Asia (2022–2025) (hereinafter, the Roadmap) scopes the following Central Asian countries (CACs): the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Republic of Uzbekistan. The Roadmap builds on the individual health goals and priorities of CACs through the lens of the European Programme of Work (2020–2025) – “United Action for Better Health” (EPW). The EPW outlines a vision for how the WHO Regional Office for Europe can support health authorities across the Region to rise to their challenges individually and collectively. In parallel, the Roadmap aligns CACs’ efforts and fosters cooperation with partners to pursue its political, investment and technical objectives. Together, these objectives synergistically deliver on the core priorities of the EPW, target the subregion’s root causes of ill health, address key weaknesses of CACs’ health systems and help close the gaps in health and well-being between CACs and the European Union and WHO European Region. CACs co-created the Roadmap using a novel approach established by the WHO Regional Office for Europe to facilitate subregional cooperation for health and well-being. This approach enables CACs to synergize resource mobilization and facilitate partnerships for transformative change that will create political capital for health and broaden investment opportunities in Central Asia. These opportunities focus on the most prominent, high impact areas of shared priority for improving the health and well-being of Central Asia’s current and next generation. The Roadmap is a powerful, politically neutral health instrument that allows CACs to cooperatively respond to the intersecting crises of epic proportions affecting them, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and the conflict and political instability in the WHO European Region, predominantly resulting from the crisis in Ukraine. Therefore, the Roadmap is a human-centred cornerstone for health and well-being that will help CACs heal social fractures and accelerate their delivery on global, regional and national commitments for health and well-being. To achieve these goals, the Roadmap has identified 11 High Impact Action Areas and 32 Reform Initiatives following an extensive consultative process with the WHO Regional Office for Europe and CACs’ Ministries of Health, national health authorities and development partners. |