This brief provides an overview of vaccine cold chain equipment (CCE) forecasting. It is designed to provide awareness and understanding of the CCE forecasting process and tools for teams involved in vaccine forecasting and to accompany the forecasting toolbox. The document outlines essential tools and resources, describes the primary steps of the forecasting process, and discusses key data collection needs. It also presents fundamental forecasting formulas and includes a practical example to illustrate the concepts. Additionally, the brief highlights the differences between CCE forecasting and vaccine forecasting, detailing the specific additional data required for CCE forecasting that goes beyond what is typically gathered for vaccine forecasting. This brief offers a toolbox of resources to support vaccine forecasting teams with an understanding of CCE forecasting activities as related to vaccine forecasting.

TOOLBOX-FORCASTING

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