Legal framework

Strategic Priority 2 of the IA2030 focuses on Commitment and Demand with the goal that immunization is valued and sought by all people, and health authorities commit to ensuring that immunization is available as a key contributor to enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health as a fundamental right.

This Strategic Priority aims to ensure that key groups, champions and stakeholders advocate for greater commitment to and ownership of immunization programmes and for sustained national and subnational financing, as well as to encourage leaders to prioritize immunization in strategic and operational planning and in policy, fiscal and legislative instruments.

The proportion of countries with legislation in place that is supportive of immunization as a public good is used as a proxy to track country commitment to immunization.

This indicator was pilot tested in the Region of the Americas in 2020 in the WHO/UNICEF Joint Reporting Form on Immunization (JRF). Global data is available from 2021 and updated as received.