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FTF Forum - January 23-24, 2002

• FTF Forum 2002 Agenda

Forum Presentations (All files are MS PowerPoint presentations unless noted otherwise)

Wednesday, January 23

• GAVI Two Years Later - Amie Batson, The World Bank
   
• New Products into Old Systems: GAVI from a country perspective - Mary Starling, London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and Save the Children UK
   
• Securing Long-Term External Commitments to GAVI - Peter D. Poore, Independant Consultant & Member, Core FTF
   
• Overview of FTF - Violaine Mitchell, Coordinator, FTF
   
• Financing
• Financial Sustainability - Steve Landry, Co-Chair, FTF
• Immunization Financing Database - Patrick Lydon, WHO
• Capacity Building in Financial Management - Julie Milstien, WHO
   
• Economic and Financial Strategies to Accelerate the Development of New Vaccines - Amie Batson, The World Bank
   
• Vaccine Procurement and Demand Forecasting
• Role of FTF procurement sub-group - Steve Landry, USAID
• Vaccine Demand Forecasting - Alan Brooks, Children's Vaccine Program at PATH
   
• Equity and Immunization - Davidson Gwatkin, The World Bank
   
• Opportunities in Immunization Financing: debt relief, development loans and IDA buy-downs - Joe Naimoli & Anthony Measham, The World Bank
   
• GAVI and Middle Income Countries - Ruth Levine, The World Bank

Thursday, January 24

1. Financing
1. Financial Sustainability
    
• Magnitude of the future financing problem - Bo Stenson, GAVI Secretariat
• Country Perspectives
• Government of Bangladesh - Siddiqur Rahman Choudhury, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Finance; Mohamed Ashraf Ali, Joint Secretary and Public Health, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; Md Mahbubar Rahman, Program Manager, EPI, Ministry of Health, Government of Bangladesh
• Government of Ghana - George Amofa and Mercy Essel Ahun, Government of Ghana
• Government of Pakistan - Rehan Hafiz, EPI Manager, Government of Pakistan
• Bolivia Health Sector Reform Project - Gina Tambini, Pan American Health Organisation
• Country Case Studies from Benin, Togo, Côte d'Ivoire - Marcel Drach and Anaïs Colombini, AMP, France
   
• Draft guidelines for the preparation of financial sustainability plans and pre-tests - Ruth Levine, The World Bank
• Draft indicators of financial sustainability - Marty Makinen, Abt Associates
   
2. GAVI and Middle Income Countries
    
• "Just the Facts" - Ruth Levine, The World Bank
• Financing immunization services through the private sector - Julia Walsh, University of California, Berkley
   
3. Capacity Building
    
• HIPC II - Christy Hanson, The World Bank
• Development Loans - Peyvand Khalegian, Johns Hopkins University
   
2. Vaccine Demand Forecasting
• Background of the Forecasting Group, Status of country applications - Alan Brooks, Children's Vaccine Program at PATH
   
• Work of WHO on Supply and Demand
• Hepatitis B vaccine global demand - Susan McKinney
• Hepatitis B vaccine supply - Alejandro Costas, WHO
   
• Pneumococcal and other future vaccines
• Scope of the pneumo demand model - Sarah Glass, The World Bank
• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Demand Forecasting - Alan Brooks, Children's Vaccine Program at PATH
   
• Vaccine Demand Forecasting Model - January 2002 (Excel Spreadsheet)
   
3. Financing Strategies to Accelerate Vaccine Development and Use
• Moving from rhetoric to action: Financing strategies to accelerate vaccine development and use - Amie Batson, The World Bank
   
4. Capacity Building
• GAVI and Capacity Building - Julie Milstien, WHO
   
• Global Financing Assessments - Grace Chee, Abt Associates
   
• Financial Sustainability Assessment Tool - Miloud Kaddar, Abt Associates
   
• Mapping Available Materials - Lidija Kamara

News from the FTF

• A Report on Financial Sustainability Implementation in 8 Countries (.doc)
• FTF Flyer 6 (.pdf)
  
• FTF Flyer 5 (.doc)
• FTF Flyer 4 (.doc)
• FTF Flyer 3 (.doc)
• FTF Flyer 2 (.doc)
• FTF Flyer 1 (.doc)
• Dakar Photo (1.5 MB .jpg)
• Dakar Declaration on Financial Sustainability (.pdf)

About the FTF

• Terms of Reference (.pdf)
• Core Members (.pdf)
• FTF Workplan 2003 (.xls)

FTF Resources

• FSP Guidelines & Annexes 2004
• Advocacy for Financial Sustainability
• Immunization Financing
• IF Database
• IF Options Resource Kit
  - "The Briefcase"
• Economic and Financial Incentives to New Vaccine Development
• Vaccine Procurement and Demand Forecasting
• FTF Forum 2002

Useful Links

• World Bank HIPC
• UNICEF supply division Information on Vaccine Procurement and Deliveries
• Center for Global Development
• Abt Associates
• FTF Working Web Site