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A new project begins this year that will focus on monitoring and evaluating policy formulation and implementation processes aimed at achieving universal health coverage in South Africa and Tanzania. The project – Universal Coverage in Tanzania and South Africa (UNITAS) – will undertake monitoring mainly at the district level, with some monitoring and evaluation at the national level.  It aims to support implementation processes and will establish an ‘early warning system’ of implementation difficulties. The project runs until 2015 and is funded by the European Union. It is a collaborative project with partners from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Ifakara Health Institute (in Tanzania), Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp (in Belgium), Centre for Health Policy, University of Witwatersrand and the Africa Centre in South Africa.