
WHO Revamps SEARHEF 2.0 to Boost South-East Asia’s Health Emergency Response
Published on: Sept. 7, 2025, 9:21 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
The WHO South-East Asia Region is expanding its Health Emergency Fund into SEARHEF 2.0, raising the corpus to USD 3 million, merging response and preparedness streams, and embedding new rules for faster, transparent, and flexible funding. This upgrade aims to strengthen regional resilience, ensuring quicker life-saving support for Member States facing increasingly frequent health emergencies.