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The WHO Measles and Rubella (MR) Team invites you to a global webinar on "Best practices and lessons learned on Measles and Rubella campaign".
Panelists from country, regional, and HQ levels will share:
Best practices, challenges, and lessons learned from recent campaign implementation
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What is MAINSTREAM?
The MAINSTREAM initiative worked with local mentor institutes in Cameroon, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Pakistan to support 25 small embedded implementation research (IR) projects to strengtheng immunization coverage and equity, especially for zero dose children. Th...
The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), with technical support from WHO Nepal, successfully conducted a comprehensive Joint External EPI–VPD Surveillance Review from 24–30 April 2026. This milestone exercise—the first of its kind since 2010—was undertaken following recommendations from the WHO...
In this episode of the Alliance lift, Dr Shalom Ndoula (the Director for Cameroon EPI) talks about his own trajectory from community-level facilities to now overseeing the country's immunization programme and what he has learned along the way. His insights touch on adaptation of programmes and polic...
Dear TechNet colleagues,I am developing the Field Constraint Registry for Vaccine Specification (FCRVS), a practitioner-contributed, curated platform designed to convert recurring vaccine delivery constraints in fragile, conflict-affected, and other operationally constrained settings into structured...
Hello Everyone,
VillageReach has published a new op-ed. The article argues that as Gavi enters a more constrained financing era under Gavi 6.0, success will depend on shifting from expansion to prioritization while putting country voice, transparency, and meaningful consultation at the c...
Sizeable between- and within-country inequalities in childhood immunization impair progress towards universal coverage of all persons with essential life-saving vaccines. Monitoring global trends in immunization inequalities helps to identify population subgroups that are less likely to benefit from...
Immunization outcomes depend on behavior, including caregivers seeking services, providers following protocols, and communities trusting the system. Yet social and behavior change initiatives are rarely institutionalized or consistently funded, often buried in budget lines without clear accountabili...
Dear Colleagues,
Health professionals are increasingly stepping into leadership roles—often in complex systems with limited resources and high expectations. Yet structured opportunities to reflect on leadership practice remain rare.
Over the past year, I’ve facilitated the Leadership Masterclass w...
A new JSI article on Gavi's VaccinesWork platform synthesizes findings from the Zero-Dose Learning Hub across Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda, and makes a compelling case that the field's default approaches to reaching zero-dose children are incomplete without corresponding attention to subdis...
Dear colleagues, I’ve created a repository of national immunization policies and SOPs for vaccine management at facility level. This comes from what is available online, combined with publications that have been shared with me.
https://www.technet-21.org/en/topics/programme-management/sops
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Four years into its strategic plan, the Measles & Rubella Partnership's Midterm Review reveals that while progress has been made, countries and global institutions must take urgent, collective action to reach elimination targets by 2030.
At the end of 2024, 83 countries had eliminated measles a...
What does it actually cost to reach every zero-dose child? Immunization programs can face challenges in planning and budgeting if they lack rigorous, bottom-up costing data for targeted interventions, particularly those designed to reach missed and under-immunized children.
To help address this gap...
Asking whether an intervention worked is not enough. Immunization programs also need to understand how and why change occurred, especially when reaching zero-dose and under-immunized children in complex settings.
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub’s new Theory-Based Evaluation Toolkit supports governments ...
A recent VaccinesWork blog post reflects on the Zero-Dose Learning Hub’s accomplishments during 2025, highlighting how implementation research was translated into practical tools, guidance, and shared learning. Drawing on experience from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda, the blog post shows how...
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub has updated its collection of implementation research synthesis and posted the final semiannual reports from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda. These resources move beyond high-level theory to examine the specific drivers of under-immunization and the delivery strategi...
Reaching zero-dose children requires evidence that can be applied in real programs and policy decisions. A new post on Gavi’s VaccinesWork blog shows how the Zero-Dose Learning Hub is translating implementation research from Bangladesh, Mali, Nigeria, and Uganda into practical tools and insights tha...
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to share our recent publication evaluating the use of mobile-money payments during Côte d’Ivoire’s October 2023 national polio immunization campaign. The study analyzes the financial implications of shifting from cash to digital disbursement and provides eviden...
The Zero-Dose Learning Hub has launched a new toolkit to help country teams, partners, and technical groups apply theory-based evaluation to strengthen immunization programming. The resource offers practical guidance on developing and revisiting theories of change, clarifying assumptions, and mappin...
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The Immunization Economics Community of Practice are holding a webinar on 10 December 2025 at 15:00 Central European Time on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, click here to register now!
Presenters will share a global synthesis of the evidence on the cost of reaching zero-dose children, as w...
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