BIREME Bulletin n. 92

BIREME and PWR Brazil: cooperation agreements of the 2024-2025 biennium

BIREME’s Strategy 2023-2025 aims to guide information products and services for action in health, with an emphasis on the use of scientific evidence for decision-making, focusing mainly on four areas:

  • Strengthening the capacity of lay people and communities for health-related decision-making;
  • Strengthening professional decision-making capacities;
  • Supporting the development of evidence-based health policies; and
  • Supporting health research.

According to Director João Paulo Souza, the strategy presented aims to “strengthen technical support for health professionals, policy makers and communities, ensuring that they have access to reliable and timely information for effective health interventions”.

To achieve these objectives, the Center relies on several of the Terms of Cooperation (TC) under development with PAHO/WHO Brazil and on sources of funding through global projects, such as with the World Health Organization. In the current 2024-2025 biennium, BIREME continues to cooperate with the following TC established between PAHO/WHO Brazil and the Ministry of Health, considering:

TC91/TA2 – Increased production, use and access to scientific evidence in decision-making processes and policy making in the context of the Unified Health System (SUS).

TC93/TA1-4 – Improvement of BIREME (annual contribution from the Ministry of Health).

TC95/TA6-9 – Improvement of the Management of the Executive Secretariat of the Brazilian Ministry of Health – Brazil VHL- SE/MS.

TC140/TA2 – Improvement of the Management of the Executive Secretariat of the Brazilian Ministry of Health – Economy of Health VHL – SE/MS.

TC157/TA1 – Strengthening and Qualifying the use of health information and digital transformation in the SUS.

The development of products and services in the context of each TC is monitored by BIREME in fortnightly project management meetings coordinated by the Director of the Center with the technical and administrative teams. In addition, biannual meetings are held with the national counterparts to validate the results achieved. The biannual reports are published by PAHO Brazil and are available for public access.

About the TCs

The Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), through its Country Offices and Centers, including BIREME/PAHO/WHO, operates in the countries of the Region with technical cooperation programs and projects that formalize and operationalize the dissemination of information, sharing of experiences and ensure transparency and control of resource management by means of technical and financial reports. The Terms of Cooperation are among the instruments most used by the Organization to consolidate this practice, as well as Agreements and Contracts aligned with institutional policies and processes.

BIREME/PAHO/WHO continues to develop and improve products and services that help improve the quality of production, access and publication of scientific and technical information and evidence in health for all the countries of the Latin American and Caribbean Region.

In coordination with the PAHO/WHO country offices and counterparts, the Centre develops projects to achieve health results at the organizational, national and international levels, through specific TCs or Agreements with different counterparts. With the government of Brazil, whose main counterpart is the Ministry of Health [1], TCs are made possible through PAHO/WHO Brazil.

Further information on About the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information – PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization.

[1] The Ministry of Health is a permanent member of BIREME’s Governance Committees, Advisory and Scientific Committees, which provide recommendations for improving and strengthening BIREME’s regional technical cooperation results, including those related to national priorities.

 

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