Accountability in Action: UHC2030 launches its new global action tracker on UHC Day 2025

This UHC Day 2025, UHC2030 is releasing ACT for UHC, a new global report and interactive data dashboard.

ACT for UHC provides the evidence needed to assess whether countries are translating key commitments made in the 2023 Political Declaration into action. 

By tracking progress on implementation, it aims to strengthen UHC accountability and drive advocacy and alignment for better health outcomes. With its unique multistakeholder perspective on political commitments, it is designed to complement other UHC monitoring efforts, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank Group’s Tracking Universal Health Coverage: Global Monitoring Report.  

Formerly known as the State of UHC Commitment, ACT for UHC involves a data dashboard and global report. While the dashboard provides comprehensive data sets, including country-level information, the report draws on statistical indicators, policy document analyses and UHC2030’s global survey to assess progress and identify gaps and vulnerabilities.  

In the report, UHC commitments are grouped into the eight action areas of the Action Agenda from the UHC Movement. The report presents global trends and compares results across WHO regions, World Bank income groups, and contexts of conflict and fragility, while taking into account contextual factors such as socio-economic conditions, trust in government, civic participation, social protection, the promotion of gender equality, and vulnerability to climate change – all of which are increasingly shaping the trajectory towards health for all. 

The report also features testimonials of people struggling to access health services from around the world, a strong complement to this year’s UHC Day campaign, which seeks to share the stories behind the data and to underscore the importance of social participation to build equitable and resilient health systems.

Health for all is only possible when people have the power to participate—and the tools to hold every commitment to account. ACT for UHC is designed to help make that possible. 

Access the report and dashboard 

 

Background:

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day on 12 December is the annual rallying point for the global movement for health for all. It marks the anniversary of the United Nations’ historic and unanimous endorsement of universal health coverage in 2012. The 2025 UHC Day campaign theme is “Unaffordable health costs? We’re sick of it!” 

More than half the world’s population still lacks access to essential health services. And a quarter of them face financial hardship when paying for health care out of their own pockets, often at the expense of food, education or housing.  

The 2025 campaign theme focuses on the lived experience behind these statistics, reminding government decision-makers that unaffordable health costs are making our communities poorer and sicker and holding us back on all of the Sustainable Development Goals.