Given its size and the low baseline, India has a crucial role in global progress and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in health. As a result, there is a great need for effective monitoring of the country's progress toward health-related SGDs, through timely and disaggregated data, which would allow for systematic assessment and course correction. This paper aims to classify the health and nutrition-related indicators from the existing health and healthcare surveys that India relies on for tracking progress and recommends that two of the largest household surveys be streamlined to strengthen the National Indicator Framework (NIF) for goal tracking purposes. The paper also reviews the draft NIF and proposes certain revisions from a data perspective in a revised draft framework for the government's consideration. Finally, it highlights various gaps and constraints in data availability, and develops specific recommendations to achieve a data sphere consistent with the envisaged NIF.

The achievement of global sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends largely on India’s progress, given the country’s massive size and its moderate historical success in key health and nutrition outcomes over the last several years. This further increases the relevance and need for effective monitoring of India’s performance, through timely and disaggregated data, which ensures systematic assessments and course-correction. As India will be depending mainly on surveys to supply target-related data in the medium run, this paper classifies existing health and nutrition indicators from the draft National Indicator Framework (NIF), in terms of data availability. By highlighting the gaps in available data, the authors make specific recommendations to streamline existing surveys to align them with the requirements of an NIF for the SDGs. The authors review the draft NIF released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), and propose a revised one as part of this exercise.

Past the crucial midpoint to the SDGs, the 2024 SDG3 GAP progress report, ‘Aligning for country impact’, focuses on alignment as the overarching principle linking efforts to deliver greater impact in countries on the health-related SDGs. It contributes to the basis for further discussions among the 13 signatory agencies, on how to further improve the alignment and collaboration across multilateral agencies, as will the forthcoming Independent Evaluation findings due in late 2024. This fifth progress report amplifies countries’ voices, including their views of development partner alignment and collaborations at country level. The report notes countries’ clear call for greater alignment among development partners around national plans, including through the SDG3 GAP monitoring framework, the 2023 UHC Political Declaration and the 2023 Lusaka Agenda. The report maintains a transparent spirit in reflecting on lessons learned since SDG3 GAP’s inception and actions taken so far to implement recommendations in last year’s report. It emphasizes the SDG3 GAP’s commitment to a way of working, its successes, and the immense potential of collaborations among countries and development partners (both within and outside of the SDG3 GAP) when the right leadership is in place in both countries and development agencies.

Global Development Goals and Linkages to Health and Sustainability is the summary of a public three-part webinar series hosted by the Global Environmental Health and Sustainable Development Innovation Collaborative between October and December, 2012. Experts within the fields of environmental and global health and members of government, academia, and civil society discussed global development goals that will focus on sustainable development to inform the Rio+20 post-2015 development agenda framework, which will likely be adopted at the September 2015 UN General Assembly. This report focuses on possible health-related measures and metrics that can be utilized for creating new Sustainable Development Goals as the Millennium Development Goals sunset in 2015, using existing measurements that can be adapted to track progress of global sustainable development and human health.

The aim of this report is to present an overview of the 17 Goals using data currently available to highlight the most significant gaps and challenges.

The world is off track to make significant progress towards universal health coverage (UHC) (SDG target 3.8) by 2030 as improvements to health services coverage have stagnated since 2015, and the proportion of the population that faced catastrophic levels of out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending has increased.

This annual Global Action Plan for Healthy Lives and Well-being for All (SDG3 GAP) progress report discusses what has worked and what has not worked since the SDG3 GAP was launched in 2019. Based on lessons learned, the report makes recommendations to further enhance collaboration in the multilateral system to help countries accelerate progress on the SDGs.