Country Compacts
To accelerate progress towards quality affordable health services for all, countries are partnering with the World Bank Group to prepare National Health Compacts. These are high-level, government-led agreements that define shared priorities, reforms, and investment needs in health. The first compacts will be formally launched at the UHC High-level Forum in Tokyo in December 2025.
Compacts will serve as a strategic roadmap to align resources across domestic and external sources, including the private sector, galvanize political leadership, and promote accountability for delivering results.
Compacts will prioritize high-impact health sector solutions and policy reforms needed to unlock challenges in the health sector. While compacts will be country specific, the focus will be on key reforms building digitally enabled primary care platforms using five proven solutions:
- Connecting and equipping facilities – because quality care requires functional infrastructure, from reliable energy to essential equipment.
- Redesigning care delivery with digital tools – using telehealth, AI diagnostics, and digital health records to extend reach and improve quality.
- Designing service packages that balance curative and preventive care – moving beyond just treating illness to preventing disease and managing chronic conditions.
- Expanding and upskilling the health workforce – training community health workers, nurses, and doctors to deliver comprehensive primary care.
- Increasing financing through insurance programs – reducing out-of-pocket costs that push families into poverty.
