School vaccination readiness assessment tool

The three primary purposes of the School Vaccination Readiness Assessment Tool are:

1. To help Ministries of Health and Education determine, monitor, and improve their country’s overall readiness to conduct school vaccination activities.

2. To provide a simple-to-use assessment of a country’s overall capacity and specific strengths and weakness to implement school vaccination activities.

3. To guide a process to improve overall readiness and initiation of a new school vaccination programme or to improve an existing one.

While this Readiness Assessment Tool is specifically designed to assess country-wide readiness to implement school vaccination, it might also provide information useful for assessing and subsequently improving broader school health services. It may be appropriate in many countries to combine school vaccination activities with other school health services.