Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan

Overview

The Working for Health 2022-2030 Action Plan presents how WHO, Member States, and stakeholders can jointly support countries to optimize, build and strengthen their health and care workforce. The Action Plan responds to the Seventy-fourth World Health Assembly resolution WHA74.14 in 2021: Protecting, safeguarding and investing in the health and care workforce, which calls for a clear set of actions for accelerating investments in health worker education, skills, employment, safeguarding and protection to 2030.

The Action Plan emphasizes the importance of the health and care workforce to the health of populations, to the resilience of health systems and to economic prosperity. It provides a progressive pathway for countries with even the most critical workforce challenges to accelerate their progress towards universal health coverage, emergency preparedness and response and the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Action Plan focuses on three key and cross-cutting priority areas:

• planning and financing
• education and employment
• protection and performance