Industralised country governments
Currently represented on the GAVI Alliance Board by
- Italy
Board member: Prof Alberto Mantovani, School of Medicine, University of Milan & Scientific Director, Instituto Clinico Humanitas
Term of office: January 2008 to December 2009
Representing: Spain
Alternate: Spain
- United States
Board member: Dr Kent R Hill, Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Term of office: July 2006 to June 2009
Representing: Canada, Australia
Alternate: Canada
- Netherlands
Board member: Mrs Yoka Brandt, Deputy Director General for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Term of office: January 2007 to December 2009
Representing: Denmark, Sweden
Alternate: Sweden
- United Kingdom
Board member: Mr Gavin McGillivray, Head, Global Funds & Development, Finance Institutions Department, Department for International Development (DFID)
Term of office: January 2007 to December 2008
Representing: Norway, Ireland
Alternate: Norway
- France
Board member: Dr Gustavo Gonzalez Canali, Special Health Adviser, Department for Development Policies (DPDEV), Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Term of office: January 2007 - December 2008
Representing: Luxembourg, European Commission
Alternate: none
Germany will select its preferred constituency.
Responsibilities of board members
The primary responsibility of these board members from industrialised country governments is to ensure that health receives an adequate proportion of Official Development Assistance (ODA), and that this is channelled through the sector coordination mechanisms. Their governments have committed to:
- Ensuring that their international and development policies relevant to health – and especially immunisation – emphasise the needs of the world’s poorest people;
- Ensuring that health is given adequate priority, not only as an international public good, but in the context of poverty-reduction policies;
- Ensuring that global health challenges and the need for wider access to immunisation are broadly communicated to the industrialised country governments, including to national health and health research institutions;
- Facilitating the participation of those national institutions in international efforts;
- Supporting the strengthening of immunisation services through broad sectoral approaches.
Industrialised country governments also contribute technical and policy expertise to the GAVI Alliance, enabling it to be a unique and robust alliance of all stakeholders.
Selection of new board members
The GAVI Board comprises five seats assigned to donor governments constituencies. Seats are filled on the basis of a self-selected constituency model, as follows:
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Each constituency develops its own process to designate its candidates to the board.
- The constituency is preferably based on like-mindedness and adherence to the constituency principles and values.
- Additional donors join the constituency of their choosing, in consultation with members.
- The constituencies should maintain a balanced size (i.e. one should not be disproportionately large).
- Board members serve as representatives of their constituencies.
- The duration for donor government board members is two years or as determined by agreement among constituency members.
- The constituency will seek to establish a consensus position on all issues before attending board and committee meetings.
- Since demands vary from constituency to constituency, the outgoing board member takes responsibility for a seamless handover to his or her successor.
- Final candidates are proposed to the board for final confirmation.
Constituencies follow the same process and rules to select alternates. The alternate is preferably from another government than the board member.
Former Board Members
Canada
Board member: The Hon Aileen Carroll, Minister for International Cooperation
Terms of office: July 1999 to June 2001 and January 2003 to December 2004
France
Board member: Dr Gustavo Gonzalez Canali, Special Health Adviser, Department for Development Policies (DPDEV), Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Term of office: July 2003 to June 2006
The Netherlands
Board member: Dr E Borst-Eilers, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister for Health, Welfare and Sport
Term of office: January 2000 to December 2001
Norway
Board member: Dr Sigrun Mogedal. HIV/AIDS Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Term of office: January 2001 to December 2002 and January 2005 to December 2007
Sweden
Board member: Mrs Annika Bjurner Söder, State Secretary for Development Cooperation
Term of office: January 2004 to December 2006
United States
Board member: Dr E Anne Peterson, Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S.A.
Term of office: January 2002 to December 2003
United Kingdom
Board member: Baroness Amos, MP, Secretary of State for International Development
Term of office: July 2001 to June 2003