Countries enabled to produce and analyse information on financial protection, equity and health expenditures and to use this information to track progress and inform decision-making The Secretariat will step up its leadership by:
promoting the use of high-quality, country-sourced comparative data on health expenditure, organized according to standard classifications, to understand the sources and uses of health resources for all countries as well as financial hardship due to out-of-pocket payments and financial barriers to access leading to forgone care/unmet needs to monitor financial protection as an integral part of universal health coverage;
using such data (mentioned above) to inform policy-dialogue stakeholders at global, regional and national levels to make progress in reducing inequalities in access to health services driven by inadequate financial protection mechanisms and/or inadequate levels of public spending on health; and
mobilizing countries, partners and civil society organizations around a global agenda for improving the quality and timeliness of health expenditure information and analysis to promote transparency on the use of resources.

The Secretariat will support countries to:
analyse data on financial hardship arising from out-of-pocket spending, financial barriers to access, forgone care and unmet need to support health financing policy design;
produce and analyse high-quality and policy-relevant data on the sources and uses of funds in the health sector to enhance transparency and inform national policy, including for analysis of health spending patterns by funding source, financing arrangement, health care function (including primary health care), diseases and input factors where possible, while concurrently contributing to the annual update of the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database;
strengthen capacities for data collection, analysis and use for policy dialogue; conduct in-depth, country-tailored policy analysis using routine administrative and survey data; and
institutionalize health accounts and the use of the data for policy dialogue.

In producing technical products on norms/standard, data and research, the Secretariat will:
track financial hardship using global and regional metrics to update the global database on financial protection and support evidence-based policy discussions; focus the tracking on financial hardship experienced by the poorest while expanding the disaggregation to age and gender in addition to rural/urban populations to support targeted policy discussions and ensure no one is left behind; increase the evidence available on financial barriers to access as a driver of forgone care/unmet needs specially for the lowest socioeconomic quintiles;
produce and analyse high-quality and policy-relevant data on the sources and uses of funds in the health sector to enhance transparency and inform policy at country level, highlighting primary health care and other relevant items of expenditure that linked with preparedness, while also contributing to the annual update of the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database; and
support the production of global, regional and country reports showing progress in financial protection and trends in the sources and uses of funds in the health sector. Reduced number of people suffering financial hardship