Industralised country governments
Please visit the GAVI Alliance Board members page to see current representation from industrialised country governments on the GAVI Alliance Board.
Responsibilities of board members
The primary responsibility of these board members from industrialised country governments is to ensure that health receives an adequate proportion of Official Development Assistance (ODA), and that this is channelled through the sector coordination mechanisms. Their governments have committed to:
- Ensuring that their international and development policies relevant to health – and especially immunisation – emphasise the needs of the world’s poorest people;
- Ensuring that health is given adequate priority, not only as an international public good, but in the context of poverty-reduction policies;
- Ensuring that global health challenges and the need for wider access to immunisation are broadly communicated to the industrialised country governments, including to national health and health research institutions;
- Facilitating the participation of those national institutions in international efforts;
- Supporting the strengthening of immunisation services through broad sectoral approaches.
Industrialised country governments also contribute technical and policy expertise to the GAVI Alliance, enabling it to be a unique and robust alliance of all stakeholders.
Selection of new board members
The GAVI Board comprises five seats assigned to donor governments constituencies. Seats are filled on the basis of a self-selected constituency model, as follows:- Each constituency develops its own process to designate its candidates to the board.
- The constituency is preferably based on like-mindedness and adherence to the constituency principles and values.
- Additional donors join the constituency of their choosing, in consultation with members.
- The constituencies should maintain a balanced size (i.e. one should not be disproportionately large).
- Board members serve as representatives of their constituencies.
- The duration for donor government board members is two years or as determined by agreement among constituency members.
- The constituency will seek to establish a consensus position on all issues before attending board and committee meetings.
- Since demands vary from constituency to constituency, the outgoing board member takes responsibility for a seamless handover to his or her successor.
- Final candidates are proposed to the board for final confirmation.
Constituencies follow the same process and rules to select alternates. The alternate is preferably from another government than the board member.
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