WHO Costing, Budgeting, Financing and Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines

Louis Alexandre Whest

The WHO’s Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB) and WHO Health Emergency programme (WHE) are partnering with Project ECHO of the University of New Mexico (UNM) to host a series of 15 sessions that align with countries’ immediate and medium-term needs.

The objectives are to optimize the use of existing resources and technical assistance through sharing of guidance, tools, resources, learnings, and best practices to support costing, budgeting, and financing of C19 immunization programs by:

  1. providing technical assistance on the use of C19 tools, guidance, resources, and trainings on costing, budgeting and financing, including the use of the updated CVIC tool version 2.2;
  2. sharing best practices in a community of practice on key challenges, benefits, and use of costing and budgeting tools such as the CVIC 2.2 as well as strategies to maintain routine immunization services.

Links to recordings, presentation slides, and consolidated participant question and answer (Q&A) documents are currently available for the following webinars:

  • Webinar #01: How to apply for Gavi CDS Funding through the Partners Platform\
  • Webinar #02 & #03: Costing for scale-up
  • Webinar #04: Costing alone is not enough: Budgets need to be planned and executed
  • Webinar #05: Where does needed COVID-19 Vaccination Funding come from?
  • Webinar #06: Process of COVID-19 Vaccination Planning, Costing and Budgeting in African Region
  • Webinar #07: Regional approach to support COVID-19 vaccination costing and budgeting in countries in the Americas and Europe
  • Webinar #08: Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Planning and Implementation
  • Webinar #09: Experience sharing by Western Pacific and Eastern Mediterranean countries: COVID-19 vaccination costing, public financial management and economic return (WHO series on Costing, Budgeting, Financing and Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines)
  • Webinar #10: Gavi and UNICEF’s Covid-19 Delivery Support: Everything you Need to Know About Needs-Based Applications
  • Webinar #11: COVID-19 Vaccination Financing in the South-East Asia Region
  • Webinar #12: Operational Microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination and experience with multiple products
  • Webinar #13: Mini-cPIE lessons learned highlights and regional perspectives
  • Webinar #14: Health Workforce – How to Address the Bottlenecks
  • Webinar #15: COVID-19 and COVAX Data, Country, Regional, Global Views
  • Webinar #16: COVID-19 Vaccines Impact Modelling - Key Issues to know about Modeled Evidence to Inform Prioritization and Delivery
  • Webinar #17: Global Status Update: A year in reflection and a year ahead

Webinar #01: How to apply for Gavi CDS Funding through the Partners Platform

1. Presenters:

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and Answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

6. Any further questions?

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Webinar #02 & #03: Costing for scale-up

1. Presenters:

  • Karene Yeung (WHO)
  • Raymond Hutubessy (WHO)
  • Yap Wei Aun

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

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Webinar #04: Costing alone is not enough: Budgets need to be planned and executed

1. Presenters:

  • Nathalie Vande Maele (WHO)
  • Peter Cowley (WHO)
  • Helene Barroy (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

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Webinar #05: Where does needed COVID-19 Vaccination Funding come from?

1. Presenters:

  • Nathalie Vande Maele (WHO)
  • Lindsey Cole (GAVI)
  • Ibironke Oyatoye (UNICEF)
  • Michael Kent Renson (World Bank)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

Webinar #06: Process of COVID-19 Vaccination Planning, Costing and Budgeting in African Region

1. Presenters:

  • Amos Petu (WHO)
  • Fritz Fonkwe (WHO)
  • Alexis Satoulou (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

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Webinar #07: Regional approach to support COVID-19 vaccination costing and budgeting in countries in the Americas and Europe

1. Presenters:

  • David Sulaberidze (UNICEF ECARO)
  • Juan Pablo Pagano Sansone (PAHO/WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

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Webinar #08: Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine: Planning and Implementation

1. Presenters:

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

5. Useful links:

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Webinar #09: Experience sharing by Western Pacific and Eastern Mediterranean countries: COVID-19 vaccination costing, public financial management and economic return

1. Presenters:

  • Peter Cowley (WHO WPRO)
  • Jon Cylus (European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies London School of Economics and Political Science & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
  • Eunkyoung Kim (WHO Lao PDR)
  • Emiko Masaki (World Bank)
  • Quamrul Hasan (WHO EMRO)
  • Osama Mere (WHO EMRO)
  • Osmat Azzam (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

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Webinar #10: Gavi and UNICEF’s Covid-19 Delivery Support: Everything you Need to Know About Needs-Based Applications

1. Presenters:

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

The questions asked by participants during the session have been compiled into the following Q&A document.

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Webinar #11: COVID-19 Vaccination Financing in the South-East Asia Region

1. Presenters:

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

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Webinar #12: Operational Microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination and experience with multiple products

1. Presenters:

  • Ousmane Dia (JSI)
  • Ravi Krishnan (WHO GIS Centre for Health)
  • Chris Jung (WHO GIS Centre for Health)
  • Latif Ndeketa (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

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Webinar #13: Mini-cPIE lessons learned highlights and regional perspectives

1. Presenters:

  • Roberta Pastore (WHO/Europe)
  • Balcha Masresha (WHO AFRO)
  • Thomas Cherian (MM Global Health Consulting)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers::

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5. Useful links:

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Webinar #14: Health Workforce – How to Address the Bottlenecks

1. Presenters:

  • Amani Siyam (WHO)
  • Raed Arafat (Ministry of Internal Affairs, Romania)
  • Anthony Nasr (Lebanese Red Cross)
  • Yap Wei Aun (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation::

4. Questions and answers:

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Webinar #15: COVID-19 and COVAX Data, Country, Regional, Global Views

1. Presenters:

  • Donald Brooks (WHO)
  • Laure Dumolard (WHO)
  • Angela Shen (WHO)
  • Marla Shaivitz (Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs)
  • Dominick Shattuck (Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers::

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Webinar #16: COVID-19 Vaccines Impact Modelling - Key Issues to know about Modeled Evidence to Inform Prioritization and Delivery

1. Presenters:

  • Raymond Hutubessy (WHO)
  • Sarah Pallas (CDC)
  • Nicholas Grassly (Imperial College London)
  • Nick Scott (Burnet Institute)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

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Webinar #17:Global Status Update: A year in reflection and a year ahead

1. Presenters:

  • Katherine O’Brien (WHO)
  • Ann Lindstrand (WHO)
  • Danish Ahmed (WHO)
  • Günter Bossery (UNICEF ROSA)
  • Diana Chang Blanc (WHO)
  • Scott Pendergast (WHO)
  • Michael Ryan (WHO)

2. Recording:

3. Presentation:

4. Questions and answers:

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