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Strengthening immunization programmes:
Practical workshop guides for immunization professionals
The GAVI partners have created
a set of six guides for workshop facilitators, focusing on strengthening
immunization programmes and management systems. These practical
guides can be adapted for workshops in different regions or countries.
Key topics covered by the guides include the development of in-country
coordinating mechanisms, immunization programme assessments, multi-year
plans, and financing.
The guides were developed for a workshop
held in Annecy, France, in April to update immunization professionals
on "the GAVI approach" to strengthening immunization services. Participants
were nominated by their regional working groups and came from Africa,
Asia, the Newly Independent States and the Middle East. They represented
national ministries of health, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, PATH
and the Association Pour LAide à la Médicine Préventive
(AMP). As a result of the Annecy workshop, participants from the
regional working group in west Africa have already scheduled their
own localized versions of the course to be held in Abidjan in August.
The GAVI partners anticipate similar activities in other regions.
The workshop facilitator guides, supportive
materials, and further information about the Annecy workshop are
available here,
or by mail or email from:
Molly Mort,
PATH,
4 Nickerson Street,
Seattle,
Washington 98109,
USA.
mmort@path.org
Sustainable financing: Resources
from the GAVI Financing Task Force
The GAVI Financing Task Force
(FTF) has produced a set of briefing materials and analyses for
use by national governments and other stakeholders. The resources
are intended to support decision-makers in areas such as: identifying
long-term financing options for immunization programmes; promoting
the development of new vaccines for low-income and middle-income
countries; forecasting vaccine demand; and capacity building in
financial management.
The analyses and briefings have been
commissioned from a range of independent experts and include background
and discussion papers and case studies on the financing of immunization
services, and a model for forecasting vaccine demand. A vaccine
finance policy "briefcase" is also being prepared. The first materials,
together with details of the FTF and its scope of work, are available
on the GAVI website at www.vaccinealliance.org/financing/intro.html;
these will be updated and added to regularly.
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