WHO-UNICEF Guidelines for comprehensive multi-year planning for immunization

Overview

This updated document provides guidance to countries to make national comprehensive multi-year strategic plans (cMYP) for immunization, using the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) 2011-2020 as a guiding framework. It provides a new approach to planning that can be summarized as follows:

• Ensuring that the strategies in the plan are sufficiently comprehensive using the GVAP as a guide.
• Better alignment of immunization and health sector strategies to strengthen ownership, solve shared problems and ensure maximum utilization of resources.
• Planning by immunization system components rather than by disease or initiative.
• Including costing and financing strategies for the immunization programme.
• Ensuring active participation of relevant actors at all levels.
• Equity in access to immunization services, and monitoring and accountability for the results have been entrenched into the document.