This funding plan is based on a vision of empowering both affected countries and WHO to engage with all national and international stakeholders on the ground. The plan will ensure coordination among all actors and the delivery of effective support to the affected countries and countries at risk. With an outbreak of this nature and magnitude, no organization could meaningfully work and make impact working on its own.
In August 2014, WHO drafted the Ebola Response Roadmap to set out the core strategy for stopping this unprecedented outbreak and to provide the basis for a significantly increased response. This was the basis for the UN system’s Overview of Needs and Requirements (ONR) and STEPP Strategy that followed. These were designed to assist governments and partners in the revision and resourcing of country-specific operational plans for the Ebola response, and to aid the coordination of international support to fully implement those plans.
