IHR (‎2005)‎ States Parties self-assessment annual reporting tool, 2nd ed

Overview

Article 54 of the IHR request that States Parties and the Director-General shall report to the World Health Assembly (WHA) on the implementation of these Regulations as decided by the WHA. In 2008, the WHA, through the adoption of Resolution WHA61(2), and later on 2018 with the Resolution WHA71(15), confirmed that “that States Parties and the Director-General shall continue to report annually to the WHA on the implementation of the International Health Regulations (2005), using the self-assessment annual reporting tool”.

The IHR States Parties self-assessment annual reporting tool (SPAR) is intended to support States Parties to fulfil these obligations. The submission of IHR States Parties Annual Reports using the SPAR tool allows the WHO Secretariat to compile a consistent report for the WHA.

The second edition of SPAR (2021) has 15 capacities and 35 indicators compared to 13 capacities and 24 indicators in the previous version used from 2018 to 2020 reporting periods.
The summary of results from the annual reports have been used to report to the World Health Assembly since 64th WHA in 2010, and country profiles have been made available on the e-SPAR platform, the Strategic Partnership for Health Security and Emergency Preparedness (SPH) Portal and  WHO Global Health Observatory (GHO) data web page.