Health Emergencies

Under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR (2005) all States Parties are required to have or to develop minimum public health capacities to implement the IHR (2005) effectively. Since 2010 monitoring process of the IHR implementation status involved assessing, through a self-assessment questionnaire sent to States Parties. In 2018 WHO provided a new State Parties Self-Assessment Annual Reporting Tool - SPAR, with a revised interpretation of national IHR 13 capacities on a scale scoring system. of 13 capacities. From 2019 and electronic platform (e-SPAR) was implemented and States Parties are now able to report on line. Data from 2019 show that globally, progress has been reported across all 13 IHR core capacities, particularly in respect of surveillance, laboratory capacity and IHR coordination and National IHR National Focal Point functions, human resources remains stable, but the overall average scores suggest further and sustained efforts are needed in the areas of chemical events, capacities at points of entry and radiation emergencies.