Supporting an equitable and resilient recovery towards the health-related Sustainable Development Goals

Overview

SDG3 GAP Principals met in November 2021 to discuss how the GAP can best support an equitable and resilient recovery towards the health-related SDGs and drive country impact and results in the response to, and recovery from, COVID-19, by learning from country exemplars and identifying paths to scale. They agreed on and approved the strategy presented in this paper, which builds on discussions among SDG3 GAP Agency focal points.

This paper is grounded in three key areas of recommendation in the Joint Evaluability Assessment. It builds on the development of two strategic documents following the assessment, namely, the Positioning the SDG3 GAP for country impact in the COVID-era (Nov 2020) and Theory of Change (Nov 2020), by bringing more granularity and depth to the operational guidance provided by GAP thus far and further developing an approach to track and monitor process and outcomes at country level, aligned with GAP’s theory of change. The third area that the paper aims to address is the issue of resources currently available to GAP in order to carry out its commitments, also emphasised in the fourth JEA recommendation.