Quality in humanitarian health response has been a continuous goal for the humanitarian community, as well as a key component of the right to health and achievement of universal health coverage.

As such Global Health Cluster partners have highlighted the need to collectively define what quality entails in a humanitarian operational environment. Having a mutual understanding of challenges faced but also existing good practice in quality assurance or improvement mechanisms is critical to build context-based capacity and improve humanitarian health responses.

Therefore, the Global Health Cluster Quality Improvement Task Team provides a platform for cluster partners to 1) develop a mutual understanding of quality improvement mechanisms and 2) learn from each other’s experiences. Through this platform, the Quality Improvement Task Team will support the development of common guidance and strategies for Health Cluster Coordinators and country partners to utilize.

For additional information on the Task Team, please contact the GHC team: healthcluster@who.int

Quality of care position paper

What should quality health care be like in humanitarian settings? The GHC Quality Improvement Task Team and partners have developed a position paper which defines the scope and minimum issues that must be considered when addressing quality of care in humanitarian settings.

WHO and the Quality Improvement Task Team developed a tool to assess quality of care in primary health care facilities. Originally developed under the Global Health Cluster Essential Package of Health Services (EPHS) Task Team, the work has been continued by the QI-TT.