“The World Health Organization (WHO) is the paramount health authority at the global level and needs to be strengthened and reformed and properly funded to play this role. WHO Watch seeks to generate support for a reformed WHO restored to its proper place in global health governance. WHO Watch aims to support wider knowledge of, and participation in, the various engagements across the broader field of global health governance. We are aiming to change the balance of power framing global decisions which impact on health. WHO Watch is the first phase of broader ambition, the Democratising of Global Health Governance.”

Since its beginning, the MMI Network actively participates in this project coordinated by the People’s Health Movement and hosts the team of WHO Watch at the WHO governing body meetings in its delegation. MMI Statements submitted to the World Health Assembly and the WHO Executive Board result as a collaborative effort of the WHO Watch team and the MMI GHG team and are therfore co-signed by MMI and the People’s Health Movement.