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

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 sessions that align with countries’ immediate and medium-term needs.

Sessions Series: July – December 2021

Objectives

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.

Resources

• CVIC Tool Download
• CVIC EZ Tool
• Open WHO Course- Learning how to use the COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing (CVIC) tool
• Partners Platform
• Telegram groups supporting the webinar participants:
  • Telegram group (EN): WHO Costing, Budgeting, Financing and Delivery of COVID-19 Vaccines
  • Groupe Telegram (FR): OMS - calcul des coûts, budgétisation, financement et livraison des vaccins COVID-19
  • OMS - Coste, presupuesto, financiación y suministro de las vacunas COVID-19
• OpenWHO courses
  • Orientation to National Deployment and Vaccination Planning for COVID-19 Vaccines
  • COVID-19 Vaccination Training for Health Workers
• Online immunization communities
  • TechNet-21 – The Technical Network for Strengthening Immunization Services
  • BOOST – A global community where immunization professionals connect, learn and lead
• Country Readiness and Delivery (CRD) webpage
  • Visit for more information on preparing for COVID-19 vaccination
  • Vaccine-specific and thematic short instructional videos and job aids are currently under development and will be posted on the CRD webpage when available.

• COVID-19 vaccine introduction toolbox
  • Provides guidance, tools and training to equip countries to prepare for and implement COVID-19 vaccination
  • Intended to support Ministries of Health, health workers, partner organizations, and other stakeholders
  • Organized in line with the Guidance on Developing a National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for COVID-19 vaccines and will be updated as new resources become available
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  • For questions, comments or feedback about the resources please e-mail: COVID19vaccineresources@who.int