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Hello , we are pleased to share our quarterly updates with you.
For more than four years of war, the Health Cluster in Ukraine (led by the World Health Organization in close coordination with the Ministry of Health), has supported a nationwide humanitarian health response to sustain essential services. This video highlights collective impact, coordination and continued commitment to recovery and resilience.
Photo: ©WHO / Guerchom Ndebo
The Formative Evaluation of the Global Health Cluster, covering 2014–2025, concluded with six key recommendations to strengthen coordination, partnerships and performance, and to inform the next GHC Strategy. The evaluation served both accountability and learning purposes, assessing relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and coherence across GHC functions and responsibilities.
WHO senior management has accepted all recommendations, and a Management Response Plan outlines follow-up actions to support implementation.
The Q4 dashboard reflects hyper-prioritized health responses following major funding cuts in 2025. As of December, 24 Health Clusters and Sectors are working to reach 45.2 million people with essential services, against a revised requirement of US$2.12 billion. Funding received stands at US$1.28 billion, highlighting the ongoing gap.
Webinar: Mobile Clinic Quality of Care Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings
4 March | English | 14:00–15:00 CET (8:00–9:00 EST)
Photo: © WHO / EMRO
Additional launch webinars will be held in Arabic, French and Spanish between 11-25 March.
Join the official launch of the Mobile Clinic Quality of Care Toolkit for Humanitarian Settings, developed by the Global Health Cluster, Save the Children and partners. The webinar will introduce the five tools, highlight how they support quality across the mobile clinic lifecycle, and present the accompanying e-learning course.
Sustaining coordination beyond Cluster deactivation: practical actions for locally led Cluster transition and deactivation
5 March | English | 14:00–15:30 CET (8:00–9:30 EST)
This session brings together global, regional, and country teams to explore practical actions for locally led cluster transition and deactivation. It features Dr. Sharon Negsang of DEMTOU Humanitaire, a Cameroon Health Cluster partner, whose expertise centers on sustaining essential health services and strengthening national leadership during humanitarian transition.
10 March | 09:00–10:30 CET
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Do Humanitarian Clusters Still Matter? The Role of Clusters in a Changing Humanitarian Landscape
11 March | 14:00–15:30 CET (8:00–9:30 EST)
Cluster coordination is a life-saving enabler of predictable, accountable, and effective humanitarian action. This session shares evidence on how clusters reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and speed up decision-making, and examines their evolving role within the Humanitarian Reset and cluster simplification process.
The present report, covering the period from 1 January to 1 October 2025, provides information on all WHO-graded acute and protracted emergencies, including those where United Nations Inter-Agency Standing Committee Humanitarian System-Wide Scale-Up protocols were activated, and on public health emergencies of international concern that required a response by WHO. It also outlines global health emergency trends, challenges and short- and medium-term outlooks.
This toolkit, developed by the Global Health Cluster, Save the Children and partners, provides tools and guidance to support planning, delivery and monitoring of quality care in mobile clinics in humanitarian settings.
A new technical brief from the Human Reproduction Programme, WHO, highlights maternal mortality in fragile and conflict-affected settings, presenting latest figures and case studies on sustaining maternal health services during crises.
This guidance, developed by the Global Health Cluster SRH Task Team, supports SRH and gender-based violence service providers with tools and information to deliver comprehensive abortion care in humanitarian settings.
Research in BMJ Global Health presents the H3 Package, the first global reference of high-priority health services for humanitarian response in protracted and resource-constrained emergencies, developed by WHO, GHC and partners.
Two Frequently Asked Questions resources on breastfeeding in the context of cholera and mpox are now available. Developed by the Infant Feeding in Emergencies Core Group, within the Global Nutrition Cluster — these documents provide practical, evidence-based guidance for health workers to support the protection and continuation of breastfeeding during outbreaks.
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