Second Meeting of the Child Health Accountability Tracking (CHAT)Technical Advisory Group (in-person)

Overview

This report summarizes the Second Child Health Accountability Tracking and Technical Advisory Group Meeting (CHAT-TAG) which was organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). USAID supports the TAG with a grant provided to WHO.

The primary focus of the June meeting was to review the first iteration and decide on next steps for a comprehensive mapping of child health and well-being indicators, and to define a set of criteria for prioritizing indicators from this mapping exercise for global monitoring purposes. Indicators presented in global monitoring frameworks need to be harmonized to reduce confusion over what countries should measure and report on, and to enable assessments of trends over time and comparisons across countries and regions. Standard, harmonized indicators will help global efforts towards the ultimate aim of holding us all to account for progress towards fostering children who are alive, healthy, functional, and happy by the time they become pre-teenagers.