Country implementation support package

WHO has developed a suite of frontline service readiness assessments in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic to strengthen country capacities to track and monitor current and surge capacities to deliver essential COVID-19 tools while maintaining other essential health services. The facility and community assessment tools can help countries detect and monitor health systems bottlenecks and health facility capacity and readiness gaps throughout the rapidly changing and uncertain course of the pandemic.

The below package of technical support materials and guidance can be used to aid country implementation of the tools. The package focuses primarily on the implementation of three core tools: COVID-19 case management capacities: diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccine readiness, and other health products; Continuity of essential health services: Facility assessment tool; and Community needs, perceptions and demand: community assessment tool. The package can be used by Ministries of Health, WHO Country Offices, WHO Regional Offices, and partners.

Annotated tools for supervisors and interviewers

Slides for survey planning and implementation, including interviewer training

Presentation slides

Analysis code in Stata and R, chartbooks, and mock data in CSV for practice
(organized by core module, last updated on 31 May 2022; Other resources include revision note, a practice chartbook, example field check tables, and additional code to check errors)

Community needs, perceptions and demand: community assessment (zip, 828 KB)
Continuity of essential health services (zip, 1059 KB)
COVID-19 case management capacities (zip, 1011 KB)
Other resources (zip, 3237 KB)