Following Member States’ request at the 142nd Executive Board, WHO Secretariat organized a consultative process with the National IHR Focal Points (NFPs) to revise the States Parties Self-Assessment Annual Reporting tool. This instrument is considered the mandatory tool for States Parties reporting on IHR implementation as required in Article 54 of the IHR (2005). The consultative process involved email consultation with all 196 National IHR Focal Points between 26 February to 14 March 2018, and a face-to-face meeting on 7-8 March 2018 with 22 NFPs from all 6 WHO regions, as well as the WHO Regional IHR contact points, and WHO technical focal points. The revised tool includes 24 indicators for 13 core capacities to detect, assess, notify, report and respond to public health events of national and international concern, as presented in the Annex 1 of the IHR (2005).

The tool is based on a graduated scoring system, it is more concise than the existing tool and focused on ‘access’ to capacities rather than in-country presence of capacities. The revised tool will be published on the WHO website ahead of the 71st World Health Assembly.