Our work in Nauru

Our work in Nauru

The WHO Representative Office in the South Pacific, located in Suva, Fiji, operates under the umbrella of the Western Pacific regional office, and our role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern.We work together with a range of partners on closely related public health activities; including research, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.

 

 

 

WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022: Nauru
The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is WHO’s strategic framework to guide the Organization’s work in and with a country.

Nauru-WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022

The World Health Organization (WHO), working with partners, will support the Government in pursuing its national strategic priorities. Each strategic activity is linked to at least one of the subregional focus areas that are detailed in the Pacific Island Countries and Areas–WHO Cooperation Strategy 2018–2022.

 

National health policy

The Government of Nauru provides health-care services to all citizens. Primary health care and public health services are managed by the Division of Public Health at the Naeoro Public Health Centre, and curative services are provided by the Republic of Nauru Hospital. Services include medical, surgical and dental specialties, alongside haemodialysis, laboratory, radiological, physiotherapy and pharmaceutical services.

The vision of the Nauru National Health Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is “a healthy and peaceful nation that values and supports human rights and dignity through the provision of quality health care and services”.

The plan prioritizes four key result areas to provide quality health services that are accessible by all communities:

  • Health systems strengthening
  • Primary health care and Healthy Islands
  • Curative health
  • Support services and networking

 

Nauru-WHO strategic priorities

1. To strengthen systems to protect Nauruans from communicable diseases including priority challenges such as HIV, STIs, TB and NTD:

1.1 Implement integrated people-centred approaches to achieve the targets under the Regional Framework for Action on Implementation of the End TB Strategy in the Western Pacific, 2016–2020.
1.2 Develop and implement integrated national strategies to support efforts of controlling and eliminating NTDs by 2030.
1.3 Support processes to sustain high immunization coverage and improve immunization systems.
1.4 Support processes to achieve and sustain measles and rubella elimination.
1.5 Support processes to improve vaccine/immunization and priority communicable diseases surveillance systems.

2. To reduce the burden of NCDs including improving mental health in Nauru

2.1 Support Nauru in building a strategic plan on NCDs which covers the key risk factors and includes country-specific targets.
2.2 Support Nauru in meeting national indicators for NCDs, in line with the global and regional targets.
2.3 Support Nauru in achieving the national nutrition and diet-related targets, in line with global and regional targets to reduce the prevalence of nutrition and diet-related death, disability and disease.
2.4 Support Nauru in improving service coverage for NCD essential services, in line with the global target.
2.5 Help tackle the service provision gap for mental health.

3. To address climate and environmental determinants of health

3.1 Strengthen government and community capacities to respond to environmental hazards and climate change, and the health consequences of disasters, according to the Western Pacific Regional Framework for Action on Health and Environment on a Changing Planet.
3.2 Strengthen in-country implementation of SDG 6 targets on universal access to safely managed water, sanitation and wastewater. 3.3 Provide technical assistance for the introduction of drinking-water safety plans, national drinking-water quality standards and a water quality monitoring programme.
3.4 Provide technical assistance to develop an environmental health country profile and national climate and environmental health action plan.
3.5 Provide technical support for the development and implementation of a roadmap to control asbestos hazard.

4. To support process to optimize planning, implementation and periodic reviews of the Nauru National Health Strategic Plan

4.1 Support, review and report on the annual progress in implementation of the National Health Strategic Plan.
4.2 Support development of an annual health sector operational plan including a health workforce profile and projection.
4.3 Provide technical support to strengthen civil registration and vital statistics including cause of death certification.
4.4 Support advancement of health information management, particularly health informatics: database, data collation, interpretation and annual reporting support.

5. To improve access to essential medicines and health technologies, and containment of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

5.1 Develop and review the policy and plan for medicines and health technologies aligned with the national plan.
5.2 Develop and review treatment guidelines and formularies relevant to national priorities and disease burdens.
5.3 Strengthen procurement and supply system of medicines and health technologies through assessment of inventory management system, supply chain management training, and effective collaboration and information sharing with key programmes and stakeholders.
5.4 Develop a multisectoral national action plan that is country specific and in line with the global and regional strategy.

Publications

Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 20-22 September 2023: meeting report

The Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting brought together health leaders from across the Pacific, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga...

Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2022 - 30 June 2023

Covering the period from July 2022 to June 2023, this Report highlights how WHO in the Western Pacific Region has worked to turn the hard lessons of the...

Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2021 - 30 June 2022

This report, covering the period from July 2021 to June 2022, highlights how WHO continued supporting countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region...

WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022 : Pacific Island Countries and Areas

The Pacific Island Countries and Areas–WHO Cooperation Strategy 2018–2022 (the “Cooperation Strategy”) documents the medium-term...

WHO country cooperation strategy at a glance: Nauru

All countries with a WHO office have a Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS). CCSs are flexible to align with the national health planning cycle (generally...

Health information systems in the Pacific at a glance 2016

This report provides a 2016 snapshot of the status of national health information systems (HIS) in the Pacific. The Meeting on Strengthening Health Information...

WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022: Nauru

The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is WHO’s strategic framework to guide the Organization’s work in and with a country. It responds to...