The GAVI Alliance (formerly The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization) will use their existing governance structures to make allocation policies and country disbursement decisions for funds leveraged through the IFFIm financing program. GAVI resource allocation decisions are guided by the following principles:

  • Funds are catalytic and promote improvements to the immunization system
  • Funds are additional and should not replace existing national or external resources
  • Funds are allocated through an innovative approach that rewards good performance

Throughout the past five years, the flexible, action-oriented nature of the Alliance has allowed it to adapt to new challenges - critical for a start-up venture. Alliance members include a wide range of development partners: developing country and donor governments, WHO, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry (from North and South), research and technical agencies, NGOs, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The GAVI Fund has its own board of prominent individuals largely devoted to advocacy and resource mobilization. The GAVI Fund serves primarily as the fundraising and financial management arm of GAVI.

WHO Governments Industrialized Countries Vaccine Industry Industrialized Countries Vaccine Industry Developing Countries Technical Health Institute Research Institute NGO The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The World Bank Group UNICEF Governments Developing Countries The Vaccine Fund

The GAVI partners have developed a process in which countries apply for the resources they need, based on allocation policies approved by the GAVI Board. In each recipient country, an Independent Review Committee (IRC) of national experts in immunization programmes, health economics, and health systems, reviews proposals and progress reports submitted by countries, offering a peer review. The IRC then makes its recommendations to the GAVI Board, which then requests release of funds from The GAVI Fund.