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This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in assessing forecasting and supply planning (FSP) and developing an improvement plan. It also introduces UNICEF’s FSP assessment...
This guidance manual explains why it is important to consider the key activities required to initiate the operationalization of the forecast and supply plan and briefly discusses them.
This guidance manual provides an overview as to why it is important to monitor the performance of forecasting and supply planning (FSP), the steps involved in monitoring FSP performance, the key...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the steps involved in conducting a forecasting and supply planning (FSP) review.
Following the development of the forecast and supply plan using the ratified data and assumptions, the next activity is presenting results to key stakeholders. This section discusses why the...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the supply planning concept, including the steps involved in estimating and costing commodity requirements. An example illustrating how commodity...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the various forecasting methods, including the steps involved in implementing each method. Examples illustrating how each method can be applied are also...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) preparatory phase. It covers the key activities that should be completed, including describing the programme,...
This guidance manual provides an overview of the forecasting and supply planning (FSP) team, including the roles and responsibilities of the team, governance structure, operational procedures, and...
This guidance manual provides an overview of forecasting and supply planning (FSP). It covers the definition of FSP, vaccine FSP processes, benefits of FSP and the strategic pillars central to the...
Yellow Fever Confirmatory Testing Algorithm for Regional Reference Laboratories
Instructions on Gavi’s process for the renewal and multi-year approval of vaccine support
This guidance manual is developed in response to the need to strengthen national-level Forecasting and Supply Planning (FSP) processes with particular emphasis on achieving equity and reaching...
Eligible countries can access detailed guidelines to manage the support they receive from Gavi. These include Gavi vaccine funding guidelines, application process guidelines, programme funding...
This collection seeks to elucidate the practical methods necessary for successful adjuvant development, with a particular focus on the synthesis, formulation, manufacturing, and characterization...
This document summarizes current technical and programmatic information on WHO prequalified PCV
products to facilitate informed country choices for PCV introduction or product switch for...
The number of vaccines available to low-income countries has increased dramatically over the last decade. Overall infant immunization coverage in the WHO African region has stagnated in the past few...
This paper—designed for use by US executive branch officials, members of Congress, advocates, and other stakeholders— presents an analysis of the USG’s role in global immunization and offers...
Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) catch-up vaccination at the time of PCV introduction in children aged 12 to 59 months of age has been recommended by WHO as reflected in the 2019 WHO position...
This review focuses on existing immunization policies and practices for migrants and refugees and provides an overview of barriers and facilitators for access to and utilization of immunization...
Guia para decidir sobre adoptar un esquema de vacunacion - a dose unica
Guia para decidir sobre adoptar un esquema de vacunacion - a dose unica
A guide to decide on adopting single dose schedule
Job aid on how to verify the expiration date of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Bivalent (Original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5) using based on the manufacturing date printed on the primary and secondary...
Guide for health managers and service providers on HPV vaccination in the context of a (3 doe schedule ) demonstration programme in Zambia
Guidelines for the health works involved in the HPV vaccination in the Zambian demonstration programme (Note: 3 dose schedule)
In this National Emergency Action Plan (NEAP) for 2016 - 2017, the main objective is to stop transmission in the core reservoirs and maintain or increase population immunity against polio in the rest...
An actionable guide to processes and standards for cold chain stakeholders. This document provides guidance and rationale for key stakeholders throughout the cold chain (such as EPI managers, cold...
VillageReach worked with partners – William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) and University of Washington (UW) – to adapt and create “light touch” tools that allow users...
A cold chain expert and a Ministry of Health (MOH) technician used Nexleaf Analytics’ ColdTrace
remote temperature monitoring (RTM) dashboard data to remotely identify every failing fridge...
Vaccination coverage surveys - This document contains a spreadsheet template for a MICS budget
A short article on data management during the ebola outbreak in 2014-2015, and some new perspectives and lessons learned from working with weak health management information systems during health...
This document provides a summary of MCSP/JSI’s experience in the adaptation of the regional Reaching Every District (RED) guideline to country-specific contexts in order to inform other countries...
This article presents the World Health Organization\'s (WHO) recommendations for the use of vaccines against Bordetella pertussis from the WHO position paper on Pertussis vaccines: WHO position...
Health supply chains in low-income countries have improved markedly thanks to major investments in recent years. Yet the failure to finance last-mile delivery too often prevents products from...
Immunization is at the very core of health programs around the world yet its performance is commonly measured by just a single number, namely coverage with a third dose of a vaccine that protects...
Using high-quality routine immunization data is critical to helping health officials and managers plan services and make decisions that enable them to reach every child with immunization. As the...
This document recommends supply chain and related performance indicators for health programs to use to monitor and improve the availability of the 13 key life-saving commodities of the UN Commission...
Update
ISO 10781:2015 provides a reference list of functions that may be present in an Electronic Health Record System (EHR-S). The function list is described from a user perspective with the intent...
Integration of COVID-19 vaccination into routine immunization and primary health care
The Addis Declaration on Immunization calls for countries to increase political and
financial investments in their immunization programmes. It includes 10 commitments,
including increasing...
As more low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) explore opportunities to improve efficiency and performance in their public health supply chains and diagnostics networks, they face myriad choices...
To aid decision-makers interested in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine introduction or scale-up, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and PATH completed the first comprehensive review of...
The primary objectives of this document are to provide a step-by-step approach of a successful acquisition/introduction of solar cold chain equipment for vaccines management, and to share the lessons...
The definitive history of the worlds most triumphant achievement in medicine and public health. In 31 chapters, this monumental work recounts the history of one of humanity\'s worst diseases, moving...
This checklist provides a set of practical actions for countries to implement and
ensure gender equality and equity in the deployment of COVID-19 vaccines
towards the aim of “leaving no one...