Advancing Health through Attention to Gender, Equity and Human Rights: Stories from the Western Pacific Region

To successfully advance health through attention to gender, equity and human rights, an organization must also transform its culture from within. One critical step towards doing this is to identify strategic entry points, based on lessons learnt from examples of success or promising practices. Accordingly, the Technical Working Group identified as one of its major activities in 2016 the development of a report illustrating such examples, through a reflective and interactive cross-divisional process. WHO staff at the Regional Office and in country offices were engaged in an internal reflection process to identify and develop examples. This report does not provide an exhaustive list of these examples and discussions, but rather represents snapshots across various health topics and programmes and across different functions of WHO in the Western Pacific Region.