The ASEAN-UK Health Security Partnership (HSP) is a five-year programme launched in 2025 to strengthen the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Member States and Timor-Leste’s ability to prevent, detect, and respond to health threats, as well as improve equitable access to primary healthcare.
Jointly developed by ASEAN and the United Kingdom, HSP is designed to be adaptive, collaborative and regionally driven, supporting both immediate and long-term health security needs.
We are implementing the HSP Programme in partnership with FHI 360 and The Pandemic Institute.
About the ASEAN-UK Health Security Partnership
Through technical assistance, demand-led grants, and regional coordination, the programme aims to build more resilient health systems, improve pandemic preparedness, and address urgent challenges such as access to Universal Health Coverage, health impacts from climate change, disease prevention and control and antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Our role
Itad leads the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) workstream for the ASEAN-UK Health Security Partnership (HSP), supporting evidence-based decision-making and continuous improvement throughout the programme’s lifecycle.
Our MEL approach for HSP is designed to be adaptive, inclusive and utilisation-focused, ensuring that evidence drives decision-making and strengthens programme delivery across ASEAN.
Through these three MEL pillars, Itad helps ensure HSP delivers meaningful, measurable and sustainable health security outcomes across the region. Underpinning our work are principles of flexibility, collaboration, trust, and context relevance, ensuring MEL is not just a reporting function but a strategic tool for impact.
Monitoring
We design and implement a robust system to track progress across grants, portfolios and programme levels, using real-time data to inform adaptive management.
We apply a mixed-methods system using the MetricsLed platform to collect and analyse real-time data across grant, portfolio and programme levels. This enables structured reporting, performance tracking, and early identification of risks and opportunities.
Evaluation
We will deliver independent midterm and final evaluations to assess effectiveness, impact and value for money, aligned with FCDO/UKMIS standards.
Our evaluations are theory-based and complexity-aware, assessing HSP’s relevance, effectiveness, impact and value for money. We employ rigorous methods aligned with FCDO/UKMIS standards to generate credible and actionable insights.
Learning
We facilitate structured learning processes such as forums, reviews and learning products to generate insights, strengthen delivery and share knowledge across ASEAN and UK partners.
We foster a culture of continuous learning through quarterly and annual forums, after-action reviews and tailored learning products. Our approach supports adaptive management and knowledge sharing across stakeholders, from grantees to regional institutions.
Outcomes and impact
The ASEAN-UK HSP aims to strengthen health security across Southeast Asia by supporting inclusive, resilient, and climate-aware health systems.
Through our MEL work, Itad contributes to tracking and understanding the programme’s progress toward the following outcomes and impact:
- Improved health system resilience and equitable access to care across ASEAN Member States.
- Enhanced preparedness and response to public health emergencies at national and regional levels.
- Integration of climate resilience into health systems and policies.
- Strengthened institutional and workforce capacities to deliver health security functions.
- Established and trusted partnerships that foster cross-sectoral and cross-border collaboration.
- Long-Term impact
- Reduced health, social and economic impacts of health emergencies in the ASEAN region.
- Improved global health security (GHS) and progress toward universal access to quality healthcare.
These outcomes are tracked through a robust MEL system and evaluated independently to ensure accountability, learning, and strategic adaptation throughout the programme lifecycle.
