Expert meeting to review the development of a series of health financing progress matrices

Overview

Whilst SDG indicators 3.8.1 & 3.8.2 provide an assessment of effective universal health coverage at the country level at a point in time, typically with a delay of at least two years, no systematic assessment currently exists of whether a country is developing and implementing policy which, based on evidence, is expected to result in progress towards UHC. To get closer to such “real-time monitoring” of health system developments in countries, WHO together with Member States and international partners are currently developing a series of health financing progress matrices. Grants from the Republic of South Korea, and from the UK’s Department for International Development, are being used to fund this development phase.