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Fifth
GAVI Board Meeting, 21-22 June 2001, London, England
June 2001
Recommendations from the 4th Round of Country Proposal
Review
Discussion
The Board voiced its appreciation for the substance
and detail of the written documentation provided by the Independent
Review Committee (download Word
document – approx. 77kb) . It is therefore appropriate
that oral presentation of the recommendations during the Board meeting
is succinct.
DECISIONS
The Board:
- endorsed all of the recommendations of the Independent
Review Committee, namely that:
- proposals from Afghanistan and Zimbabwe (for immunization
services) and Uzbekistan and Viet Nam (for vaccines), receive
approval;
- proposals from Nigeria and Yemen (for immunization services),
Albania, Eritrea, Liberia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan (for
vaccines), and Bangladesh and Zambia (for both vaccines and
immunization services) receive approval, with clarifications
on specific issues. Upon presentation of satisfactory clarifications,
these proposals would be automatically approved;
- proposals from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe
(for vaccines) receive conditional approval;
- proposals from Djibouti, Eritrea, Sudan (for immunization
services), Yemen (for vaccines), and Togo (for both vaccines
and immunization services) receive requests for re-submission;
- requests the Fund Board** to approve the above
recommendations, for which financial implications are estimated
to be US$23 million for the years 2001 and 2002. The five-year
commitment is estimated to be in the order of US$196 million,
given current vaccine prices and assuming that the countries consistently
reach their targets for immunized children;
- requests the Fund Board** to increase the commitment
to Ghana from US$12.5 million to US$ 38 million over a five year
period, in order to cover the increased costs of introducing pentavalent
vaccine earlier than originally planned.
** The Fund Board subsequently met and approved
the recommendations of the GAVI Board.
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