Your Excellency Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouni, President of Mauritania and Chairperson of the Africa n Union, our guest of honour and keynote speaker,Honourable Dr Edwin Dikoloti, President of the 77th World Health Assembly,I would like to thank the leaders who have shared their messages via video: Secretary-General António Guterres, President Ursula von der Leyen, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
I applaud your determination to achieve universal health coverage by establishing the National Insurance Solidarity Health Fund to provide cover for vulnerable people throughout the country. All for Health - almost every nation of the world is represented here, along with dozens of partners. The Constitution was also visionary in recognizing - in a world less connected than ours - that promoting and protecting health in any country benefits all countries. So cooperation is in the interest of each and every nation. It does it for its own sake.
This week, you will consider - and hopefully adopt - the 14th General Programme of Work - our collective strategy to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, enhance equity and build resilience. Brazil confirmed that the Investment Round will be hosted through the G20, and Germany, France, and Norway confirmed that they will co-host. Thank you very much.Assessed contributions, which are predictable, flexible, and from every Member State, account for 17% of our total budget, only 17%. The rest comes from voluntary contributions, which are mostly unpredictable, inflexible and come from a few donors.
If we are to fulfil the mandate you have given us, those contributions must become more flexible, more predictable and more sustainable.That's what the Transformation that we started six years ago is about. We overhauled many of our business processes, including our supply chain process, and we're rolling out our new enterprise resource management system, BMS, to make our HR, administrative and finance processes more efficient and modernized.
All of this work is about delivering an impact where it matters most - in the countries and communities we serve.It's often said that if WHO didn't exist, it would need to be created - as former Prime Minister Gordon Brown said yesterday - but it's far from certain that in the current geopolitical climate, it could be.
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