Data Review and Data Estimation Protocols for JRF immunization expenditure data
Overview
As countries act to make progress towards the Immunization Agenda 2030 (IA2030), global level and country
level policymakers are expressing the need for “improved” immunization expenditure data to help them foster
sustainable immunization programmes.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has initiated a collaborative project aiming at enhancing Joint
Reporting Form (JRF) immunization expenditure data collection, quality, granularity and use. The project is
organized around four leverage points:
(1) enhancing country level data production;
(2) strengthening quality
control of data reported globally,
(3) releasing global estimates for immunization expenditure data and
(4)
intensifying analytical use of data.
This note discusses leverage points 2 and 3. The review (leverage point 2)
will lead to an improved data set which will then be used as input to produce global estimates for
immunization expenditure data (leverage point 3).
The protocol was developed under the oversight of a group of experts1
in health and immunization
expenditure data.