Guidance

Leave no one behind: guidance for planning and implementing catch-up vaccination

Catch-up vaccination refers to the action of vaccinating an individual who, for whatever reason, is missing or has not received doses of vaccines for which they are eligible, per the national immunization schedule.

Catch-up vaccination can be conducted through regular routine immunization service delivery (fixed, outreach, mobile, school-based), periodic intensification of routine immunization (PIRI) activities, or through innovative local strategies that ensure individuals have the opportunity to receive routine immunizations for which they are overdue and eligible.

WHO has developed guidance to assist national immunization programmes to establish or refine a catch-up vaccination strategy, as an essential component of the routine immunization programme.

This guidance is available in English, French, and Portuguese.

 

Publication year

2020

Type

Guidance

Categories

  • Service delivery

Tags

  • Catch-up
  • Coverage monitoring
  • Performance monitoring

Catch-up guidance and tools

You can find more information about "Catch-up guidance and tools" in the following Hot Topics:

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Big Catch-up Information Pack for Regional and Country TeamsWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance2024GuidanceEnglish, French
Big Catch-Up Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance2024GuidanceEnglish, French
Monitoring and reporting of essential immunization catch-up in the context of the Big Catch-UpIA2030 Partnership2024GuidanceArabic, English, Portuguese, French
Big Catch-up : Case Study Guidance and Sample Tools for Monitoring and LearningIA2030 Partnership2024ToolEnglish, French
Rapid Convenience Monitoring - Monitoring un- and under-immunized communities (working draft)World Health Organization (WHO)2025GuidanceEnglish
Catch-Up Institutionalization Assessment ToolIA2030 Partnership2025ToolEnglish
Big Catch-Up (BCU) The Real-Time Monitoring (RTM) Readiness Checklist UNICEF2025ToolEnglish
Administering Catch-Up VaccinationsImmunization Academy2022TrainingEnglish, French
Managing Multiple InjectionsImmunization Academy2022TrainingEnglish, French
How to Record and Report Catch-Up VaccinationsImmunization Academy2022TrainingEnglish, French
Leave no one behind: guidance for planning and implementing catch-up vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish, Portuguese, French

EPI-CORE-ROUTINE

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Principes directeurs de la reprise, de la promotion de la résilience et du renforcement de la vaccination en 2022 et au-delàWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022GuidanceFrench
Guiding Principles for recovering, building resiliency, and strengthening of immunization in 2022 and beyondWorld Health Organization (WHO)2022GuidanceEnglish
Standard Competencies Framework for the Immunization Workforce - Immunization Program Competencies Initiative: Supporting the objective of the Expanded Program on ImmunizationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018GuidanceEnglish
Periodic Intensification of Routine Immunisation (PIRI): Lessons learned and implications for actionWorld Health Organization (WHO), United States Agency for International Development (USAID)2009PresentationEnglish
New Vaccine Post-Introduction Evaluation ToolWorld Health Organization (WHO)2010GuidanceEnglish
Global routine immunization strategies and practices (GRISP)World Health Organization (WHO)GuidanceEnglish
Reducing pain at the time of vaccination: WHO position paperWorld Health Organization (WHO)2015Journal articleEnglish, French
Principles and considerations for adding a vaccine to a national immunization programme - From decision to implementation and monitoringWorld Health Organization (WHO)2014GuidanceArabic, English, French, Russian, Spanish
WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tablesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020RepositoryEnglish
Leave no one behind: guidance for planning and implementing catch-up vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish, Portuguese, French
Ne laisser personne de côté : Directives pour la planification et la mise en œuvre de la vaccination de rattrapageWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceFrench, Portuguese, English

LIFECOURSE_RESOURCES

You can find more information about "LIFECOURSE_RESOURCES" in the following Hot Topics:

TitleAuthorYearTypeLanguage
Options for linking health interventions for adolescents with HPV vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2014GuidanceEnglish, Russian, Spanish, French
Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One BehindIA2030 Partnership2020GuidanceArabic, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish, French
WHO recommendations for routine immunization - summary tablesWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020RepositoryEnglish
Leave no one behind: guidance for planning and implementing catch-up vaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020GuidanceEnglish, Portuguese, French
Working together: An integration resource guide for planning and strengthening immunization services throughout the life courseWorld Health Organization (WHO)2018Case studyEnglish, French
Establishing and strengthening immunization in the second year of life: Practices for immunization beyond infancyWorld Health Organization (WHO)GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese
Establishing and strengthening immunization in the second year of life (2YL) - resource pageWorld Health Organization (WHO)2020RepositoryEnglish
Intervention guidebook for implementing and monitoring activities to reduce Missed Opportunities for VaccinationWorld Health Organization (WHO)2019GuidanceEnglish, French
Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyondWorld Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF2023GuidanceEnglish, French, Portuguese, Spanish