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The 2026 MOPAN assessment of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) was launched today. The assessment examines how the OHCHR is adapting to a context where human rights challenges are intensifying and UN resources are under growing strain. It highlights clear improvements since 2019, while noting that some challenges lie ahead. Norway is pleased to have served as Institutional Lead, together with Denmark, for the process. Thank you to MOPAN for this timely assessment, and to Volker Türk for his participation and reflections. 🔗 Read the full assessment here: https://lnkd.in/e7Edkheu

🌐 Today in Geneva, MOPAN launched its latest assessment of OHCHR, examining how the organisation is adapting to a world where human rights challenges are intensifying while resources across the UN system are coming under growing strain. Over the past years, OHCHR has faced mounting expectations to respond rapidly and effectively across a widening range of crises, while continuing to uphold its core mandate of protecting and promoting human rights worldwide.  Since then, OHCHR has worked to reshape the way it operates, strengthening support to its global field network, decentralising functions, and adapting how it delivers expertise across countries and regions. The journey is far from over.  Difficult choices still lie ahead about where OHCHR should focus its presence, where it should lead, and how it can achieve the greatest impact in an increasingly constrained funding environment. The assessment offers a timely look at how OHCHR is navigating this period of change and what its evolving role could mean for the future of the UN human rights system. Thank you to Denmark and Norway for serving as Institutional Leads for this assessment. 🔗 Read the full assessment here: https://lnkd.in/e7Edkheu United Nations Human Rights Denmark in UN Geneva Permanent Mission of Norway in Geneva

🌐 How does United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR) meet the increased demand for its work amid an increasingly complicated context?    MOPAN first assessed the organisation in 2019. At the time, the assessment found a small but dynamic organisation with a clear mandate and strategy. However, its organisational structure was not fully aligned with its priorities.    OHCHR has laid significant groundwork since then, implementing an ambitious reform agenda that, while in its early stages, is already showing meaningful change.     But the uncertainty of the current multilateral context, declining funding, and threats to the human rights agenda, poses real challenges to the implementation of its mandate.    The MOPAN assessment, launching May 28, offers a prescient look at OHCHR's main strengths, areas for improvements, and emerging challenges. 

MOPAN's new mapping report of global health mandates draws three main conclusions needed for a reformed health ecosystem. ⤵️ 1️⃣ Mandate rationalisation – and its durability – requires a clear system-level stewardship function. 2️⃣ The financing, accountability, and governance arrangements that drive mandate expansion must be addressed, including the incentives embedded within them. 3️⃣ Country-level coherence should be treated as an explicit system-design objective. 🔗 Read the full report on the MOPAN website: https://lnkd.in/ecWb58nu

👏 What a week at #WHA2026! MOPAN colleagues have been in attendance and have had the pleasure to discuss MOPAN's new global health mandate mapping study with a wide range of stakeholders. And the discussions come at a crucial moment. ⤵️ Bilateral health ODA is projected to fall by 19 to 33% against 2023 levels. Simultaneously, the same donor governments face replenishment calls for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, The Global Fund, and The Pandemic Fund in a single fiscal year, alongside World Health Organization investment round, all in a political climate where multilateral financing commitments for health are contracting globally. Here are the five main findings from the first output of the series on global health that should shape the reform debate: 1️⃣ Mandates expand but do not contract, often without systematic consideration of the wider architecture.   2️⃣ Financing, more than mandate language, shapes organisational behaviour.   3️⃣ Country-level coherence bears the cumulative cost.   4️⃣ The regional tier is expanding rapidly, but without a commensurate seat at the global governance table.   5️⃣ Equity commitments are meaningful but structurally constrained.  🔗 Read all the findings from the report on the MOPAN website: https://lnkd.in/ecWb58nu #WorldHealthAssembly #WHA #WHA2026 

MOPAN colleagues, represented by Senior Policy Advisor Jolanda Profos, recently presented findings on IFI progress and challenges in protecting from sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (PSEAH) to directors of the Ethics Network of Multilateral Organisations (ENMO) focusing on IFIs. Such discussions are valuable moments to foster system-wide learning, shedding light on evolving practices and discussing how to face challenges ahead. Particular thanks to Chair Ursula Wellen (International Monetary Fund) and Bandini Chhichhia (EBRD) for leading this thoughtful discussion and providing this space for learning. Check out the article below that offers insight into the study's findings. ⬇️

💊 In global health, the challenge is not a lack of mandates. It is how they overlap, evolve, and operate in practice. MOPAN's new study maps three dimensions of global health mandates side by side: what organisations were originally mandated to do, how those mandates have evolved over time through governing body decisions, and what independent evidence shows they actually do in practice.  Looking at these layers together helps reveal how the system has changed and where there are gaps, interdependencies, overlaps, and areas requiring clearer role delineation across the system.  By bringing mandates and practice into a single analytical view, the report offers a clearer picture of how the multilateral system is currently functioning and where further reflection may be needed as discussions on global health reform continue. View the complete mapping on the MOPAN website: https://lnkd.in/ecWb58nu #WHA #WorldHealthAssembly

🌐 Multilateral organisations are carrying a larger portion of shrinking ODA, and decision making needs to be driven by impact. MOPAN Senior Policy Advisor Patrick Sáez's intervention at the OECD Future of Development Co-operation Conference in Paris on 12 May focused on three points: 🟢 Comparative advantage needs to guide decision-making more clearly, starting with defining which functions only multilaterals can deliver.  🟢 Funding models also need to match those functions, including protecting core finance for work that cannot survive growing earmarking. 🟢 Stronger results systems are needed to better track collective outcomes across the system. This is important because the ODA contraction also has meant a decrease in UN core funding. In this context, demonstrating results and fitness for purpose is under increased pressure. Thanks to Pilar Garrido for the invitation to share how MOPAN's cross-system findings that push for better results and to all panelists. #FDC2026 Suzanne Ahialegbedzi Steensen | Carsten Staur | Robin Ogilvy | Shashwat Koirala | Abdullah Al-Sakran | Izumi Ohno | Jörg Faust | Vitalice Meja |

🩺 The global health architecture is under acute and converging pressure.    Multiple on-going reform processes are creating a window for decisive change. What has been missing is a rigorous, shared evidence base.    This year, MOPAN is embarking on a series of three reports, digging into the global health architecture and what reform could look like.  Out now, the first study maps the of mandates of the nine principal multilateral global health organisations: World Health Organization, UNICEF, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The World Bank Group (Health, Nutrition and Population), The Global Fund, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, The Global Financing Facility (GFF), The Pandemic Fund, and Unitaid. The most important question this study raises is not whether individual mandates are appropriate in isolation. Most are. The question is whether the current configuration of mandates across nine organisations is fit to deliver the six functions that a reformed global health architecture will need. On that question, the evidence base assembled here suggests the answer is: not yet. Both mandate expansion and a lack of collaboration and alignment among organisations, especially at the country level, have created overlap – and likely inefficiencies – in delivering priority global health functions. Stay informed as MOPAN presents key take aways from the first report of the series this week. 🔗 Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/ecWb58nu Koen Van Acoleyen | Anne-Claire AMPROU | Karin Tegmark Wisell | Marit Viktoria Pettersen | Harriet Ludwig | Kristen Chenier | Rob Whitby

📊 Why does MOPAN 4 matter? Because better evidence supports better decisions. MOPAN assessments inform how member governments engage with multilateral organisations, how resources are allocated and how the system learns and improves. MOPAN 4 strengthens this role by providing more context-aware and structured assessment, bringing together analysis of both results and the conditions that shape them. At the same time, it recognises the diversity of multilateral organisations. The updated framework combines: 🔹Core indicators applicable to all organisations  🔹Specialised indicators tailored to specific types. This ensures a consistent, yet adaptable approach, balancing rigour with flexibility. Grounded in evidence, drawing on document review, interviews, and surveys, MOPAN 4 will continue to deliver credible, evidence-based insights that support both accountability and system-wide learning. 🔗 Learn more on the MOPAN website: https://lnkd.in/ebVsUM5u