Operational guide to assist countries in collecting monitoring and evaluation indicators for viral hepatitis

The WHO’s Global Health Sector Strategy (GHSS) on Viral Hepatitis 2016-2021, identified information for focused action as a priority area for the viral hepatitis response, highlighting the importance of developing a strong strategic information system to understand viral hepatitis epidemics and focus the response. Although there is excellent existing WHO Guidance, it is the experience of this project team, together with other experts in the region that a range of countries request further guidance and technical assistance in practically operationalizing this guidance in their own context.

The Operational Guide to be produced by this project will bridge WHO recommendations and in-country experiences – spanning high-level global guidance and in-country implementation efforts. This Guide will assist Ministries of Health and their partners and key stakeholders to:

• identify appropriate data sources for collection, while also considering crucial issues such as universality, representativeness, diversity and the need for data triangulation; and
• harness the existing disparate datasets to report progress towards the globally endorsed indicators and the elimination targets to which they relate.

Objective

The project aims to catalyze global viral hepatitis elimination efforts by developing an operational manual to guide national approaches to collecting, utilizing and analyzing strategic information for focused action in the WPRO and SEARO regions.

WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, VIDRL, The Doherty Institute

The operational guide will be developed in partnership with the WHO Western Pacific Regional Office (WPRO) and WHO Regional Office in South-East Asia (SEARO) in conjunction with member states, with the objective of becoming a regional WHO guidance document for these regions.