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2. Requests the Director-General: 
(1) to ensure that WHO reflects the values and principles of the Declaration of Alma-Ata in its work and 
that the overall organizational efforts across all levels contribute to the renewal and strengthening 
of primary health care, in accordance with the findings of the Commission on Social Determinants of 
Health; 
(2) to strengthen the Secretariat’s capacities, including capacities of regional and country offices, to 
support Member States in their efforts to deliver on the four broad policy directions for renewal and 
strengthening of primary health care identified in The world health report 2008; 
(3) to collate and analyse past and current experiences of Member States in implementing primary 
health care and facilitate the exchange of experience, evidence and information on good practice in 
achieving universal coverage, access and strengthening health systems; 
(4) to foster alignment and coordination of global interventions for health system strengthening, 
basing them on the primary health care approach, in collaboration with Member States, relevant 
international organizations, international health initiatives, and other stakeholders in order to 
increase synergies between international and national priorities; 
(5) to ensure adequate funding for health system strengthening and revitalizing primary health care in 
the Programme budget 2010–2011; 
(6) to prepare implementation plans for the four broad policy directions: (1) dealing with inequalities 
by moving towards universal coverage; (2) putting people at the centre of service delivery; (3) 
multisectoral action and health in all policies; (4) inclusive leadership and effective governors for 
health; to ensure that these plans span the work of the entire Organization, and to report on these 
plans through the Executive Board to the Sixty-third World Health Assembly and subsequently on 
progress every two years thereafter. 

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