WHO 13th General Programme of Work (GPW) Impact Framework: Targets and Indicators
March 4, 2018
The GPW 13 is based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is structured around three interconnected strategic priorities to ensure healthy lives and well-being for all at all ages: achieving universal health coverage, addressing health emergencies and promoting healthier populations. The 42 GPW 13 Impact Framework Targets and Indicators arealigned with SDGs and/orWorld Health Assembly (WHA) approved resolutions or action plans.
- GPW 13 Impact Framework Targets and Indicators
The GPW 13 targets and indicators are structured across the three strategic priorities each comprisinga one-billion people goal and together coined as the ‘triple billion goals’. The ‘triple billion goals’ include: 1 billion more people benefitting from universal health coverage, 1 billion people more people better protected from health emergencies, and 1 billion more people enjoying better health and well-being, respectively. Five interconnected platforms support the triple billion goals: improving human capital across the life course; accelerating action on preventing noncommunicable diseases and promoting mental health; accelerating elimination and eradication of high impact communicable diseases; tackling antimicrobial resistance; and addressing health effects of climate change in small island developing states and other vulnerable settings.
Developed by the WHO technical programmes, the GPW 13 Impact Framework Targets and Indicators have undergone extensive technical internal and external reviews. All except two GPW 13 targets are aligned with the respective SDG target and or indicator where there is one, or with the WHO global action plans or strategies as approved in the WHA resolutions. Using the most recent trends, future projections have been made to 2023 and 2030 to demonstrate alignment between the GPW 13 targets and SDG targets and/or WHA approved action plan targets. The alignment is summarized in the comment section of the table. Each target has a baseline and a data source for systematic monitoring. Few of the GPW 13 targets and indicators are under discussion for finalisation of baselines, targets and rates of change and noted in the table’s comment section.
A WHO Expert Reference Group (ERG)provided critical review of the GPW 13 targets and indicators. The ERG has begun a careful review of the methodology for the ‘triple billion goals’. The ERG review will focus on the three billion with a particular attention to indicators 1 and 2(UHC) and 7 (health emergencies) as well as the composite healthier populations billion.
The WHO’sHealth Metrics, Measurement and Evaluation Cluster (HMM) will support the monitoring of GPW 13 goals and targets, measurement of programmatic impact, and will collaborate across all technical programmes at headquarters and regions and countries.