Essential health services and systems maintained and strengthened in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings The Secretariat will step up its leadership by:
working side by side with other United Nations agencies and partners to mitigate the impact of protracted humanitarian emergencies and prolonged disruption of health systems in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings by improving access to quality and sustainable health services based on expanding primary health care services, leaving no one behind;
strengthening governance and coordination mechanisms to maintain continuity of essential health services during the response to emergencies, while also supporting countries to reinforce the foundational capacities of their national systems and resources (such as their infrastructure, health workforce, medical supply chain management, health information systems, planning and financing);
strengthening national resilience to health risks and to better prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from shocks, working within a ?do no harm? approach, while reducing fragmentation and building on existing systems in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings;
contributing to the development of humanitarian response plans for countries in protracted humanitarian emergencies and strengthening the delivery of life-saving and life-sustaining emergency operations, while continuing to provide gender-responsive and disability-inclusive programming and promoting the Global Health for Peace Initiative through continued coordination with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee; and
advocating for and promoting health, mobilizing joint efforts to ensure that health remains in the centre of the humanitarian agenda.

The Secretariat will support countries to:
establish appropriate emergency response coordination mechanisms, as lead United Nations agency for the Global Health Cluster and in coordination with other clusters, and ensure appropriate coordination solutions in different emergency contexts that foster strategic, technical and operational connections with other emergency management and health development partner coordination platforms;
ensure clear and comprehensive systems for monitoring routine essential health services and the progressive expansion of the access, use and quality of an essential package of health services are available in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings;
maintain and strengthen essential health services in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings by providing them with integrated and context-specific programming. The Secretariat will work with partners to conduct joint assessments and joint planning, identify collective outcomes and foster integrated programming and multiyear financing, based on conflict analyses, so that programming is conflict-sensitive and contributes to social cohesion, community trust and dialogue; and
implement the three pillars of the Attacks on Health Care initiative, including monitoring incidents of attacks, advocating for the prevention and protection of health care against attacks and documenting good practices of prevention, mitigation and protection. Essential health services and systems maintained and strengthened in fragile, conflict-affected and vulnerable settings