@UNU_IIGH 🛣️There's a clear route to embedding compliance and accountability into the #PandemicAccord.
✍🏽What remains is for political leaders to commit to language now on independent monitoring.
Read more in our new piece in @LancetGH.
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@UNU_IIGH 📋Operational protocols must be well-defined to ensure independent performance.
🌐For technical independence, it must have access to alternative sources of information, including from civil society and global organizations.
@UNU_IIGH 💰Financial independence is key to safeguarding the committee from influential donors.
🏅Committee selection must be merit-based, with members serving individually, not as government reps, supported by non-renewable term limits to prevent cronyism.
@UNU_IIGH ⚖️Experience from other treaties demonstrates that independent monitoring is viable, feasible, and achievable and offers a guide for constructing such mechanisms.
🕵️♂️The agreement text must include specific language creating an independent committee.
🪞The draft includes some steps toward accountability, like state self-reporting and a global peer review mechanism.
📜Yet, history (and evidence) show these measures alone are insufficient for meaningful compliance.
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🔍Despite progress, the text of the draft agreement requires significant work.
🔐A critical piece missing is independent accountability. Without it, the agreement risks ineffective compliance.
🚨Member States have begun negotiating a new #PandemicAccord for approval at the World Health Assembly in May 2024.
📝It's a pivotal moment for the agreement's future.
In this week's @LancetGH, we explain how accountability can be baked into the text from the get-go.
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📢⚕️ In May 2024, the 77th World Health Assembly will adopt a new pandemic agreement on prevention, preparedness, & response.
💡Spark Street Advisors & UNU-IIGH have developed a ToR for an Independent Monitoring Committee for the Accord.
Learn more here: go.unu.edu/D5zhz