WHO Multisectoral Accountability Framework for TB (MAF-TB) Baseline Assessment Checklist for country use in pursuing a national MAF-TB

Overview

In the Political Declaration of the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on the fight against TB in September 2018, Member States committed to and called for the Director-General of WHO to finalize the MAF-TB and ensure its timely implementation in 2019.

WHO finalized the MAF-TB, building on contributions from Member States, partners, including from civil society. It was released in May 2019.

Guiding and supporting Member States with their stakeholders for national adaptation and use of the MAF-TB from 2019, as requested by WHA and UNGA, lead to the development of a WHO MAF-TB baseline assessment checklist, including an annex done with the WHO civil society taskforce.

The WHO MAF-TB Checklist is composed by the MAF TB components (commitments, actions, monitoring and reporting and review) and it has 6 key elements for assessment:

1. Formalized commitments and targets for national End TB response (e.g., law, decree);
2. Up-to-date National Strategic Plan for TB response, budget, & budget allocation;
3. Status of adoption/roll-out of WHO guidelines;
4. Civil Society/affected communities engagement enabled across all components of accountability framework;
5. National report on TB response, w/executive summary and associated advocacy;
6. High-level review mechanism established or used to review the End TB response (including formal TORs, ministerial and CS engagement, recommendations reported and operational-level coordination mechanisms).

The 3 annexes are the following:

Annex 1: Government Ministries/Bodies involved in the TB Response

Annex 2: Community and civil society engagement

Annex 3: Adoption and Implementation of Global Tuberculosis Guidelines