The Evaluation of the WHO contribution at the country level in Djibouti was requested by WHO Djibouti Country Office (WCO) and jointly commissioned by the WHO Evaluation Office and the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO). This evaluation took place at a time when Djibouti was undergoing rapid transition, embarking on new processes of support to the Djibouti Ministry of Health (MoH) in the current context. Thanks to its economic development progress,Djibouti is soon expected to join the upper middle-income countries (UMIC) group. Despite a positive economic and security situation, a challenge for Djibouti outlined in the country’s Vision 2035 is to ensure that economic growth translates into tangible benefits for all sections of the population. Despite the progress, Djibouti is not on track to meet health-related sustainable development goals. As compared to other countries in the region, it performs worse on good health and well-being indicators such as maternal mortality ratio (244 deaths per 100 000 live births in Djibouti in 2019 versus 179 in EMRO) or infant mortality rate (at 46 deaths per 1 000 live births in 2021 compared to 36 in EMRO.
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Focal Point Email | evaluation@who.int |
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