This publication is the output of the latest collaborative project between the Basel Institute on Governance and the World Health Organisation Regional Office for Europe.

The document, which is co-edited by Juan Tello of WHO and Claudia Baez Camargo of the Basel Institute, offers a comprehensive view of the various manners in which different WHO member states have strived to improve their governance performance and specially throws light as to how different strategies to improve accountability have been rolled out responding to variations across institutional frameworks.