The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, April 22 that operations and jobs would be cut since US fund cuts had left the UN agency with a budget hole of several hundred millions of dollars. “The sudden fall in income has left us with a large salary gap and there is no choice but to reduce the scale of our work and the workforce,” said Adhanom Ghebreyesus to the Member States, according to a transcription of their comments.
The United Nations Health Agency has prepared for the total planned withdrawal of President Donald Trump of the United States, with much, its largest donor, next January.
The United States gave the WHO $ 1.3 billion for its 2022-2023 budget, mainly through voluntary contributions for specific projects instead of fixed membership rates. But Washington never paid its dances of 2024, and it is not expected to pay its 2025 dances. This has left the WHO preparing a new structure, which Tedros presented the staff and the Member States on Tuesday.
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The lower end of that spectrum “represses about 25% of personnel costs,” he said, emphasizing thought “that does not necessarily mean a 25% cut for the number of positions.” He did not say how many works would be lost in the WHO, which used more than 8,000 people worldwide.
‘Very painful’
But he acknowledged that “we will be goodbye to a significant number of land” and promised to do it “humanly.”
Tedros insisted that the most significant impact would probably feel at the headquarters of organizations in Geneva. “We are starting with high management reductions,” he said. “We are reducing the senior leadership equipment at the headquarters of 12 to seven, and the number of departments will be reduced by (more than) half, from 76 to 34.”
Meanwhile, the regional offices would be affected “to varying degrees,” he said, that some crimes of the countries in richer countries would probably be closed. “These are very painful decisions for all of us,” Tedros said. The WHO head insisted that the situation could have been worse. The WHO Member States agreed by 2022 to significantly increase membership rates and reduce the WHO budget covered by less reliable and destined voluntary contributions.
“Without the increase, the contributions evaluated for the current biennium would have been $ 746 million,” he said, adding that Intead, he hopes to receive $ 1.07 billion in membership rates by 2026-27, “even without the contribution of the United States.”
However, he needed to reduce his activities and more recently in his central functions, he said, as he acknowledged that “many countries need our support now more than ever.”
The decision of the US administration to Virtual and dismantles the foreign aid arm of the United States, Usaid, and freezes almost all assistance, even health projects worldwide, had had “very severe” impacts on developing countries, Espersos said. But who, he added, would now need to concentrate on helping the counteractors “transition from the dependency of aid to greater self -sufficiency.”
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