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The Service Availability and Readiness Assessment (SARA) survey is a systematic survey which aims to provide reliable information on availability and readiness of health services delivery. This is the second SARA survey conducted in Libya, with the first one completed in 2012. The survey was a collaborative effort between the World Health Organization (WHO) Libya office and the Health Information Center (HIC) of the Libyan Ministry of Health (MoH), with financial support provided by ECHO, the EU, and the WHO. Conducted as a census survey, it covered all 1,656 public health facilities and used two separate tools: a set of seven hospital survey questionnaires, and a core questionnaire used for all PHC and other facilities. Data collection for the hospital survey was done from August to December 2016, and the PHC‐level data collection started in September 2016 and ended in February 2017. Additional data on service utilization was provided by the Libyan MoH, while the population estimates for 2017 for Libya’s 22 districts were provided by the Libyan Bureau of Statistics.