Civil society organisations
This day-long meeting will build upon the previous CSO meetings held in Geneva, and in Hanoi, and most recently in London just before the Pledging Conference (on Sunday, June 12 at Save the Children). More info... (PDF - 112K)
Represented on the GAVI Alliance Board by
BRAC Health Programme, Bangladesh
Board Member: Dr Faruque Ahmed, Director
Term of Office: July 2008 to July 2011
Alternate: Alan R Hinman, Senior Public Health Scientist,
Task Force for Child Survival and Development
Term of Office: July 2008 to July 2011
The CSO representative to the GAVI Board acts as a liaison between GAVI and CSOs, representing the views and concerns of each side, while working to improve immunisation and CSO participation in strengthening immunisation.
Strengthening Engagement with CSOs
CSOs play a critical role in advocacy, public policy, and the provision of immunisation services. Strengthening engagement with CSOs has been a key objective of the GAVI Alliance and its CSO partners.
Read the Civil Society Call to Action to Support the GAVI Alliance (PDF - 83K) | Français | Español | Arabic. Released 10 June 2011, ahead of the pledging conference for immunisation, The Call to Action calls on donors to commit to fully funding the Alliance and reiterates that vaccination is the right of every child.
At the CSO Day around the GAVI Alliance’s Fourth Partners’ Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2009, CSOs issued a Call to Action which urged the GAVI Alliance to:
- Facilitate civil society engagement as a constituency in the governance of the GAVI Alliance, including allocation of two seats for CSO representation on the GAVI Board – one each for northern and southern CSOs.
- Require a meaningful role for civil society in all GAVI funding to countries, including health system strengthening, with a specific focus on linking communities to the formal health system.
- Create an application process to provide direct funding to CSOs at national and sub-national levels.
- Fully involve civil society in the development of all aspects of the 2011-2015 GAVI Strategic Plan and the GAVI-Global Fund-World Bank Health Systems Funding Platform.
Click here (PDF - 36K) to download the Call to Action. A Report of the CSO Day (PDF - 371K) is also available.
Since the Partners’ Forum, the GAVI Alliance and civil society representatives have been working closely to strengthen CSO engagement, including advancing the CSO Call to Action. In March 2010, GAVI Alliance Secretariat staff and CSO representatives, balanced equally from northern and southern countries, reconvened at the Ecogia Centre in Versoix, Switzerland.
A key outcome from this meeting was an agreement on the GAVI Civil Society Constituency structure, including establishing a CSO Steering Committee, a CSO network (“CSO Forum”), and hiring of an independent CSO communications focal point to support the constituency.
A full report of the Ecogia meeting is available here in English (PDF - 383K) and Français (PDF - 412K).
For more information on the GAVI CSO Constituency and how you can get involved, please see: 'GAVI Alliance CSO Constituency - a partner in reaching every child with immunisation' (PDF - 23K). To join the GAVI Civil Society Constituency, please download and complete the 'GAVI Alliance Civil Society Constituency membership request form' (DOC - 45K)
In order to support the momentum of GAVI’s strengthened engagement with CSOs, the GAVI Alliance recently published Case Studies (PDF - 1.3MB) documenting experiences and lessons learned under the GAVI CSO Type B support.
CSOs have actively helped shape GAVI Alliance policies through their participation on the GAVI Board, Board Committees, and Task Teams, as well as through working groups established at Ecogia.
Should you have further questions or queries on GAVI’s engagement with CSOs, please Contact us.
Former Board Members
International Pediatric Association (IPA)
Board member: Dr Jane Schaller, Executive Director
Term of office: Dec '07 to Jun '08
Board member: Adenike Grange, President
Term of office: Dec '05 to Nov '07
Sierra Leone Red Cross
Board member: Dr Muctaru A S Jalloh, President
Term of office: July '02 to Jul '05
Children’s Vaccine Program at PATH
Dr Mark Kane, Director
Term of office July 2000 to June 2002
Related downloads
- Civil Society Call to Action to support the GAVI Alliance June 2011 (PDF - 83K) | Français | Español | Arabic
- GAVI CSO Constituency Charter (PDF - 65K)
- Charte du groupe d’intérêt de la société civile de GAVI Alliance (PDF - 210K)
- 'GAVI Alliance CSO Constituency - a partner in reaching every child with immunisation' (PDF - 23K)
- Civil Society Call to Action for greater involvement in the GAVI Alliance, 20 November 2009 (PDF - 36K)
- Report on the CSO Day at GAVI's 4th Partners' Forum (PDF - 380K)
- Report of CSO Forum 29-30 March 2010 (PDF - 376K)
- Rapport du GAVI Forum de la socieìteì civile 29-30 mars 2010 (PDF - 412K)
- Read the GAVI commissioned case studies of four countries receiving CSO funding support (PDF - 3MB)
- GAVI support for CSOs in DR Congo (PDF - 185K)
- GAVI support for CSOs in Ethiopia (PDF - 201K)
- GAVI support for CSOs in Pakistan (PDF - 227K)
- GAVI collaboration with Civil Society Organisation (CSO)
- Collaboration entre GAVI et la société civile (PDF - 130K)
- CSO Meeting 8-9 Oct 2008, Geneva (PDF - 173K)
- GAVI Alliance Civil Society Constituency membership request form (DOC - 45K)
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