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AVI Management Team (AMT)

Background:
Principal members and delegates are appointed by sponsors (for their own constituency, with input from other sponsors). For some principal members there may be a situation where there is no appropriate delegate.

AVI TAC members appointed in agreement with chair.

AMT meets face-to-face or through conference calls once every 2 weeks (or upon agreement).

Decisions made by consensus. Minutes released after meeting with input from all. Agenda is compiled with input from all. For selected AMT meetings, other GAVI partners may be invited e.g. BMGF, vaccine industry.

Created
2007 by the GAVI Alliance and Fund Board

Members

Principals

Jon Pearman
GAVI Policy and Performance

Mercy Ahun
Managing Director, GAVI Programme Delivery

Ann Ottosen
UNICEF Supply Division

Osmann Mansoor
UNICEF Programme Division

John Wecker
AVI TAC

Orin Levine
AVI TAC

Stefano Malvolti
AVI TAC

Rudi Eggers
WHO

Carsten Mantel
WHO

Delegates

Gill Mayers
WHO

Thomas Cherian
WHO

Dragoslav Popovic
UNICEF Programme Division

Rana Hajjeh
AVI TAC

Raj Kumar
GAVI Programme Delivery

Nina Schwalbe
Managing Director GAVI Policy and Performance

GAVI CSO Group

Background
The idea behind the CSO Group is to mark a renewed commitment to strengthening the role of civil society in the GAVI Alliance. CSOs must continue to drive efforts to strengthening overall CSO engagement, with the GAVI Secretariat providing a facilitating role.

Created
2009 by the GAVI Secretariat in consultation with civil society at Partners Forum in Hanoi

Purpose
The GAVI CSO Group is an interim group between the previous GAVI CSO Task Team and what will become the GAVI CSO constituency.

Members

Andres Guerrero
Partnerships manager, UNICEF

Dr. Majeed Siddiqi
Head of Mission, HealthNet-TPO (Afghanistan/Pakistan)

Faruque Ahmed
Director, BRAC Health Program

Fayaz Ahmad
Merlin

Alan Hinman
Taskforce for Child Survival and Development

Jane Green Schaller
Executive Director, International Paediatrics Association

Joan Awunyo-Akaba
Ghana Coalition of NGOs in Health

Patrick Kadama
Health System Governance, Policy and Aid Effectiveness, WHO

Kate Elder
IFRC

Khaya Matsha
The Global Fund

Monclair Marianne
Norwegian Red Cross

Mette Kjaer
AMREF-Kenya

Robert Steinglass
JSI, Immunisation basics

Sharmin Akhter Zahan
BRAC Health Program

Tobias Lupe
Oxfam DE

Simon Wright
Save the Children UK

Paul Nampala
Executive Secretary, Uganda National Academy of Sciences

Maziko Matemba

Ann Starrs
President, Family Care International

Ketevan (Katy) Chkhatarashvili
President, Curatio International Foundation

Filimona Bisrat
CRDA/CORE Group

Dr. Asad Siddiq
Director-General, Afghanistan Centre for Training and Development

Geoff Adlide
GAVI-Advocacy and Public Policy

Bjorg Sandkjaer
GAVI-Advocacy and Public Policy

Farouk Shamas Jiwa
GAVI-Advocacy and Public Policy

Nilgun Aydogan
GAVI-Programme Delivery

Independent Review Committee (IRC)

The IRC provides objective, expert advice to the GAVI Alliance Board on country proposals and progress. There are three different IRC teams. They convene separately in Geneva and at different times of the year:

Independent Review Committee (IRC) - Monitoring

Background
Countries provided with support from the GAVI Alliance are required to submit an Annual Progress Report (APR) in May of each year. This exercise is central to the GAVI Alliance performance measurement process and assesses the degree to which support provided by GAVI in the previous year, has contributed to the organisation’s goals and objectives. The review is undertaken by the monitoring IRC with the support of the GAVI Secretariat.

The monitoring Independent Review Committee (IRC) communicates its recommendations directly to the GAVI Alliance Board or Executive Committee.

Created
2009 by the GAVI Alliance Executive Committee

Purpose
Each year, all GAVI alliance eligible countries are required to send an Annual Progress Report (APR) to the GAVI secretariat by May 15th. This report is reviewed by the monitoring Independent Review Committee (IRC) which meets in June and September.

Although the submission deadline is May 15th, there are two reviews undertaken by the monitoring IRC. An additional review in September facilitates late or delayed submission of APRs and also facilitates ISS assessment with the availability of WHO/UNICEF coverage estimates.

The IRC will make one of three possible recommendations to the board resulting from the review of each APR:

  • Approval - The Annual Progress Report has met all the performance measurement criteria and is approved for further GAVI support.
  • Approval with clarification - The Annual Progress Report lacked some specific pieces of data, which must be provided (generally) within a month. The requested data must be received before the Annual Progress Report is considered officially approved for further GAVI support, but the APR does not need to be reviewed again by the monitoring IRC.
  • Insufficient information - The Annual Progress Report does not fulfil specific or significant requirements and the information provided is deemed insufficient to assess performance or approve further support.
Members

Clifford Kamara
Independent Consultant
Sierra Leone

Assia Brandup-Lukanow
Independent Consultant
Germany/Denmark

Rudolph Cummings
Program Manager CARICOM
Guyana

Amanda L. Glassman
Deputy Director, Health Financing Task Force, UN Foundation
US

John Grundy
Nossal Institute for Global Health University of Melbourne
Cambodia / Australia

Rehan Hafiz
Director MCH
Pakistan

Terry Hart
IT Power India Pvt. Ltd
India / UK

Alison Heywood
Consultant and GFATM TRP member
Australian

Paul Isenman
Consultant
UK

Penelope Kalesha
Ministry of Health, Government of Zambia
Zambia

Sultana Khanum
Retired WHO HSS development Asia
Bangladesh

Nicolaus Lorenz
Head of the Swiss Centre for International Health
Switzerland

Marty Makinen
Independent Consultant
USA

Dileep Mavalankar
Indian Institute of Management
India

Victor Mukonka
Director Public Health & Research
Zambia

Marcelline Ntakibirora
Independent consultant
Burundi / Zimbabwe

Tsukamoto
Independent Consultant
Japan / Thailand

Frans Gerard Van Andel
Director, HEAP Research BV
Holland

Beena Varghese
Public Health Foundation
India

Terms of reference (PDF)

Independent Review Committee (IRC) – New Proposal Applications

Background
Country programmes are the GAVI Alliance’s core business. At its inception, the Alliance designed a flexible, yet rigorous system that allows GAVI to respond effectively to country needs, while only investing in programmes of the highest quality. The GAVI Alliance’s new proposal Independent Review Committee (IRC) of experts is the foundation upon which this system rests. The IRC reports directly to the GAVI Alliance Executive Committee, which is accountable to the GAVI Board.

In 2008, the GAVI Secretariat employed the services of a consultancy company to analyse ways of streamlining the GAVI business cycle and Governance decision making bodies with country application processes. Recommendations from this report were endorsed by the GAVI Secretariat’s senior management team. In 2009, the Secretariat recommended merging the Health Systems Strengthening / Civil Society Organisation IRC with the New Vaccines / Immunisation Services Support IRC into one single “New Proposals IRC”.

Created
2009 by the GAVI Alliance Executive Committee

Purpose
The integrated proposals IRC will review each new submitted in accordance with policies laid down by the GAVI Alliance Board and following the criteria for eligibility and assessment laid out in the application guidelines and make recommendations to the GAVI Alliance Board (or Executive Committee.)

Specifically, the integrated new proposals IRC will:

  1. Review country proposals and all other relevant documentation attached to the proposal, such as Health Sector Plans, costed immunisation comprehensive Multi Year Plans (cMYPs), Mid Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs), WHO/UNICEF Joint reporting Forms (JRFs); Financial Management Assessments.
  2. Provide the GAVI Secretariat with final evaluation reports and recommendations of support for each country reviewed;
  3. Provide the GAVI Secretariat with a consolidated report of the review which should include recommendations for improving funding, application, review and monitoring processes.
  4. The IRC chair, in addition, is expected to :
    • Facilitate consensus amongst different reviewers on the recommendations for each country application
    • Provide a consolidated report of the review to the GAVI Alliance Executive Committee

The IRC will make one of four possible recommendations to the board resulting from the review of each APR:

  • Approval - The application meets all the criteria and is approved for GAVI support
  • Approval with clarification - The application lacks specific pieces of data, which must be provided (generally) within a month. The requested data must be received before the application is considered officially approved for GAVI support, but the proposal does not need to be reviewed again by the IRC.
  • Conditional approval - The application does not fulfil specific or significant application requirements. Missing requirements must be provided in a subsequent proposal review round to complement the original application. Conditional approvals will be valid for 12 months. If the conditions are not met within one year of the first submission, re-submission of a new application is required.
  • Resubmission - The application is incomplete and a full application should be submitted in a subsequent proposal review round.
Members

CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR

Francis Omaswa
Independent Consultant
Uganda

Peter Ndumbe
Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
University of Buea
Cameroun

POOL OF IRC MEMBERS (Alphabetical order)

Abdul Wali
Chief of policy and planning in MoH
Afghanistan

Alejo Bejemino
Independent Consultant
Philippines

Alfred da Silva [1]*
Director, AMP, Institute Pasteur
France

Alison Heywood
Director of a consultancy company
Australia

Amarjeet Sinha
Joint Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India

Beatriz Ayala-Ostrom *
Int’l Procurement & Supply Chain Consultant
Mexico

Beena Varghese *
Public Health Foundation of India
India

Bjorn Melgaard *
Independent Consultant
Denmark

Bolanle Oyeledun *
Country Director Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
Nigeria

David Gzirishvili *
Director, Curatio International Consulting
Georgia

Edmund Browne
Head, Department of Community Health
Ghana

El Tayeb Ahmed el Sayed *
Director of MCH, National EPI Manager
Sudan

Elsie le Franc *
Independent consultant
Jamaica

George Pariyo *
Head Department of Health PP&M, School of Public Health
Uganda

Ibukun Ogunbekun*
Vice President, Health Systems Technology
Nigeria / USA

Lionel Pierre *
Independent Consultant
Haiti

M. Teresa Valenzuela
Director Public Health and Epidemiology Dept, University de los Andes
Chile

Mogens Munck *
Consultant
Denmark

N.K. Sethi
Senior Health Adviser in Planning Commission
India

Pierre Claquin
Independent consultant
France/ Bangladesh

Rehan Hafiz*
Director MCH
Pakistan

Rene Owona Essomba *
SWAp Technical Secretariat, MOH
Cameroun

Rudolph Cummings
Program Manager, Health Sector Development, CARICOM Secretariat
Guyana

Sarah Herbert Jones
Academic with multiple field experiences
UK

Soon man Kwon
Academic with expertise in health financing
South Korea

Soren Spanner
Independent Consultant
Denmark

Victor Mukonka
Director Public Health & Research
Zambia

Yasuhiko Kamiya
Academic, formerly with JICA
Japan

* indicates current IRC member

Terms of reference (PDF)

Regional Working Groups

The Alliance relies upon regional working groups as focal points for programme coordination, consensus building, and advocacy at the regional and sub-regional level, and as a bridge for information flow between country and global levels.  Regional working groups do not serve implementing functions; rather they help to coordinate implementation activities of partners. In specific, regional working groups:

  • Coordinate partner agency inputs and their activities at country level
  • Oversee the provision of technical support to national immunization programs
  • Provide support for interagency coordinating committees, technical subcommittees and partner representatives at country level (technical updates, information clearinghouse)
  • Monitor the performance of national immunization programs
  • Relay country views and propose policy recommendations to Alliance Partners.

Each regional working group is comprised of a core group of partners, usually led by WHO and UNICEF regional staff.

Regional Working Groups contacts

Regional Office for South East Asia

http://www.searo.who.int/

Dr Pem Namgyal
World Health Organization - South-East Asia Regional Office
I.P. Estate, Ring Road
New Delhi, 110002, India
Tel: office +91.11.23309529
Fax: +91.11.23370106
namgyalp@searo.who.int

Pan American Health Organization/Regional Office for the Americas

http://www.paho.org/

Dr Claudia P. Castillo
Family and Community Health / Immunizations
Pan American Health Organization / World Health Organization
525 Twenty-third St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
Tel: (202) 974-3504
Fax: (202) 974-3635
castilcl@paho.org

Regional Office for Europe

http://www.euro.who.int/

Dr Niyazi Cakmak
Technical Officer
Vaccine Preventable Diseases and Immunization
Communicable Diseases Unit
8, Scherfigsvej
Copenhagen 2100
Denmark
Tel: 45 39 17 14 74
Fax: 45 39 17 18 63
nca@euro.who.int

Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean

http://www.emro.who.int/

Dr Ezzedine Mohsni
Vaccines Officer
Regional Office for Eastern Mediterranean WHO
Medical Office Vaccine Preventable Diseases & Immunization
Abdul Razzak Al-Sanhouri St.
PO. Box 7608 Nasr City
Caïro 11371 Egypt
Tel: (202)276 5267
Fax: (202)276 5414
mohsnie@emro.who.int

Regional Office for Africa

http://www.afro.who.int/

Central Africa
Dr Zakaria Maiga
TL, ICP/PEV, Bloc Central
S/C OMS Cameroun
B.P. 155 Yaoundé
Tel: +237 770 5933
Fax: +237 221 10 77
maigaz@cm.afro.who.int

East and South Africa
Anmadu Yakubu
UNICEF/ESARO, Regional Office
P.O.Box 44145
Nairobi
Kenya
Tel: 254 20 622 940
Fax: 254 20 622 678
rdavis@unicef.org

West Africa
Dr Kane Ibrahima
ICP/PEV/Polio Focal Point
Ouagadougou 03 BP 7019
Burkina Faso
kanei@bf.afro.who.int

Regional Office for the Western Pacific

http://www.wpro.who.int/

Dr Manju Rani, MD, Ph.D
Expanded Program on Immunization,
Western Pacific Regional Office
World Health Organization
Tel: (063)2 528 9745
Fax: (063)2 521 1036
ranim@wpro.who.int

Task teams
Health Systems Strengthening Task Team

Created: March 2006

Purpose: Supports the formulation and implementation of the HSS components in the GAVI 2007 workplan.  It acts as an advisory and consultative body to shape and refine the GAVI HSS policies and procedures.  More specifically it provides technical inputs on a variety of GAVI HSS processes and mechanisms.

Composition: GAVI secretariat, World Bank, WHO (immunization and health systems strengthening), UNICEF, DFID, NORAD, USAID, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a civil society representative and a representative from developing countries. This is the core group who will actually be doing most of the work, but the membership will remain fuid to allow other bilateral agencies (such as CIDa, SIDA, Belgians), GTZ, other civil society members or institutions representing technically relevant areas to join as necessary.

Terms of reference (Word)

Members

Logan Brenzel
World Bank

Andrew Cassells
WHO

Gaby Malapaty
UNICEF

Abdelmajid Tibouti
UNICEF

Catriona Waddington
DFID

Julia Watson
DFID

Lene Lothe Palma Gomez
Norad

Maria Franscisco
USAID

Karen Cavanaugh
USAID

AK Nandakumar
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Francis Gondwe
CSO representative

Francis Runumi
Developing country representative

Joe Naimoli
US CDC

Craig Burgess
GAVI Secretariat

Abdallah Bchir
GAVI Secretariat

Others as necessary

Immunization Financing & Sustainability (IF&S) Task Team

Background
The support of the GAVI Alliance to the poorest countries of the world to strengthen and expand their immunization programs is expected to contribute substantially towards attainment of MDG4 (child health). In GAVI Phase 1, support to countries for new and underused vaccines was provided free to countries for an initial period. In order to assist countries to move toward greater financial sustainability of their national programs, a new policy of country co-financing has been developed for Phase 2. Transition to this new policy requires more evidenced-based decision-making and better planning and budgeting at country level to ensure timely and adequate financing. This transition requires additional GAVI Alliance partner effort at both country and global levels. For this reason, the Immunization Financing & Sustainability Task Team was formed.

Created
2007 by the GAVI Secretariat

Mandate
The Task Team is mandated by the GAVI Secretariat as an advisory body to ensure that the GAVI Alliance is on the best path regarding vaccine co-financing and immunization program financial sustainability, and to oversee the implementation of Strategic Goal (Outcome) 3.1 ‘Increase the predictability and sustainability of long-term financing for national immunisation programmes’ in the GAVI Work Plan. The duration of the group will be initially for up to the duration of the Work Plan (31/12/2010). The Group mandate will be revised during the development of the next Strategic Phase (2011-2015).

Terms of reference (PDF 24K)

Members

Lidija Kamara (co-chair)
WHO

Logan Brenzel (co-chair)
World Bank

Claudio Politi
WHO

Katinka Rosenbom
UNICEF (SD)

Dragoslav Popovic
UNICEF

Violaine Mitchell
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

K Ali
WHO

Claudia Castillo
PAHO

Mercy Ahun
GAVI Alliance

Santiago Cornejo
GAVI-Programme Delivery

Gian Gandhi
GAVI-Policy and Performance