The WHO Tool for Reviewing and Mapping Health Emergency Preparedness in Cities and Urban Settings is intended to support countries and cities in THREE KEY AREAS :

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Reviewing the level of urban health emergency preparedness and mapping relevant infrastructure at the city level.​
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Identifying gaps in policy, capacities and capabilities, and infrastructure for health security and health emergency preparedness at the city level.
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Convening relevant authorities at both national and local levels to discuss and progress health security and health emergency preparedness at the city level.​

The tools comprises THREE SECTIONS :

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A self-review of health emergency preparedness in cities (requiring both national and sub-national authority engagement)

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Mapping of health security infrastructure in a particular city (requiring sub-national authority engagement) ​

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Technical in-country workshop on Urban Health Emergency Preparedness (requiring both national and sub-national authority engagement)​

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The tool has been developed to support the implementation of the global Framework for Strengthening Health Emergency Preparedness in Cities and Urban Settings. It is based on the operational Guidance for national and local authorities that accompanies the Framework. It aims to support countries achieve a greater level of health emergency preparedness, by focusing on the unique challenges and vulnerabilities that exist at the city level, and ultimately lead to better national application of the International Health Regulations (2005).

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The Expected Outcomes of applying the WHO Tool for Reviewing and Mapping Health Emergency Preparedness in Cities and Urban Settings within a country and/or city are:

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Identified technical priorities for urban preparedness, and gaps in associated policy, capacity, and capabilities, and infrastructure ​

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Identification of areas to support IHR application and contribute to national planning processes for health security and health emergency preparedness​

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Facilitation of partnership and stakeholder dialogue for strengthening urban preparedness​

The tool and the outcomes are intended to complement existing technical activities undertaken by WHO at both national and city level to strengthen health security and health emergency preparedness.   

These include the Strategic Risk Assessments (STAR), IHR Monitoring and Evaluation Activities such as States Parties Annual Reporting (SPAR), Simulation exercises and reviews, voluntary reviews such as the Joint External Evaluation (JEE), National Action Planning for Health Security (NAPHS) and other capacity building, assessment and planning activities.   

The results and outcomes from the Tool will feed in to complement these existing processes, their outcomes and follow up activities. ​