81224113 — Global Event Agency for the Leadership for Universal Health Coverage Program (L4UHC)

The global movement for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) seeks to ensure that people everywhere have access to the health services they need without fear of financial hardship. All countries have committed to the achievement of UHC as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. While there is widespread support for the idea of UHC, actually realizing UHC at country level is contentious. Key players and groups hold divergent interests, and technical efforts to advance reform often stall when these interests cannot be aligned. Skilled leadership is required to work through competing views, unite diverse groups behind a shared vision, and broker the trade-offs and compromises that are needed to keep complex UHC reform processes on track. The Leadership for Universal Health Coverage Program (L4UHC) was developed to address this challenge. It is implemented by the GIZ, the World Bank and WHO, in cooperation with the USAID, Expertise France and other partners within the P4H network.