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Policy Framework
A new eye health policy framework was launch at the World Health Assembly in 2025 outlining steps that government departments or ministries can take to support their own priorities and implement national approaches that are fitting for their populations’ needs.
Together, these steps will help ensure there is universal access to eye care as a fundamental aspect of well-being, productivity and prosperity, and that those with unavoidable blindness are empowered to participate in and contribute to society.
1. INTEGRATION
Integrate eye health into broader health systems including school health and beyond, and improve access to screenings, services, rehabilitation, equipment and technology.
2. FINANCING
Prioritise sustainable financing for eye health including domestic resourcing, public-private partnerships and support from international financial institutions and donors.
3. MONITORING
Support the tracking of progress against national and global eye health targets through strengthened national monitoring mechanisms.
4. REGULATION
Create the optimum regulatory environment, through tax changes, regulatory reform, standards and practices for example removing regulatory barriers for access to spectacles, enabling innovation and scale in the public and private sectors.
5. WORKFORCE
Increase access to quality eye health services through the recruitment, training, distribution and retention of eye health workers as well as investing in technological advances to expand access.
6. PARTNERSHIP
Partner with the private sector, civil society and academia to promote eye health and deliver services which are aligned with national government plans and policies.
7. INCLUSION
Ensuring equity between population groups in access to services and including persons with sight loss in policymaking.