Webinar Series on Monitoring Financial Protection in Health: Update on the Revision to SDG3.8.2

Achieving universal health coverage (UHC), including financial risk protection, access to quality essential health-care services and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable essential medicines and vaccines for all is officially an agreed target (3.8) for health in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Critical to attaining UHC is a formal monitoring mechanism to assess progress. This is done through two separate indicators for target 3.8, one focused on its service coverage dimension (SDG indicator 3.8.1) and another focused on the lack of financial protection (SDG 3.8.2). Both indicators were revised in 2025 as part of the overall SDG monitoring framework revision. This webinar series will focus on the changes to SDG 3.8.2. 

The definition adopted in 2025 is the following: the proportion of the population with positive out-of pocket household expenditure on health exceeding 40% of household discretionary budget (see in Annex 
II and point C of the Report of the Inter-Agency and Expert Group on Sustainable Development Goal Indicators, available in English and French). This webinar series is a follow-up to an initial multi-day/hybrid training which was conducted with nine Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICs) in October 2023. However, given its relevance to PICs more broadly, the first webinar will be made available to a larger audience beyond the participants of the initial training to explain why the SDG 3.8.2 definition changed and its implications for measurement and monitoring.