Joint evaluability assessment of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All

This report documents the findings and recommendations of the Joint Evaluability Assessment (JEA) of the Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (the GAP), commissioned and managed by a 12-member Steering Group comprising representatives of the independent evaluation offices of all 12 signatory agencies of the GAP. The GAP combines a focus on the health-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – which are of central importance at both the global and country levels – with a diverse, multifaceted and multi-level inter-organizational partnership of UN and non-UN actors. The decision to commission the JEA was in recognition of the fact that such complex and visible multi-stakeholder partnerships bear significant intrinsic risk and that it is therefore essential to identify -- early on in the partnership – any significant gaps in the pre-conditions for success in the GAP and/or in its systems for measuring, reflecting on and addressing performance. It was further recognized that this type of early assessment would help to improve the chances that the health-related SDG targets are met by 2030, while also indicating what frameworks and measurements would need to be put in place to demonstrate the progress and achievements and learn from the experience along the way.