Monitoring Universal Health Coverage in the Western Pacific: Framework, Indicators, and Dashboard

The diversity of countries in the Western Pacific requires a flexible yet universal approach in order to meet national monitoring and evaluation (M&E) requirements. At the same time, this should allow for regional and global tracking and comparisons, as well as links with social information systems that conduct the required M&E for the SDGs.

To guide the monitoring of UHC progress and to make results more comparable within the region, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) are developing a regional monitoring framework and a proposed set of core indicators. The development of a regional universal health coverage (UHC)  dashboard is also under way to visualize UHC indicators readily available from country information systems and from global databases. This will enable policy makers to make more evidence-informed decisions and the tool will also support countries’ need for better accountability.