Candidate for WHO Director General to step up cooperation with governments, regional organizations
MOSCOW. April 19 (Interfax) - Candidate for World Health Organization (WHO) Director General David Nabarro has called for reforming WHO from the angle of interaction with national governments.
"And that way of working is that WHO is a catalyst helping others to do thing better and achieve the best results. That depends on WHO being a good and trusted partner with governments and other organizations," Nabarro told Interfax in an interview.
He said emphasis should be put on WHO recommendations to governments of member countries and regional organizations so that the organization could make a bigger input in health and wellbeing of people in various states.
"That is the heart of my reform and to get there I will make certain that the financing and management of the organization encourages partnering," he said.
Nabarro underlined the importance of closer relations between WHO, for one part, and Russia's government, academicians, civil society and media, for the other part.
For now, the level of WHO functioning is insufficient, and it can do better, he said.
Nabarro, Special Adviser to the UN Secretary General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change, was nominated for WHO Director General by the British government.