Guidance and tools
cMYP Guidelines
This 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. The cMYP approach 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.
cMYP Costing and Financing Tool
To help undertake the costing and financing aspects of cMYP development, an excel-based tool has been developed - the cMYP Costing and Financing Tool – which allows the user to easily estimate the costs and financing of immunization for previous years, and in addition aids the processes of formulating projections of future resource requirements, aggregating expected future financing, and analysing the corresponding financing gaps.
cMYP Costing Tool
The first version of the cMYP Costing and Financing Tool was launched in December of 2005. Since then several updated versions have been developed. The current version is multi-lingual (English, French and Spanish) and includes features suggested over the years by users.
cMYP Costing and Financing Tool User Guide
The cMYP Costing and Financing Tool (the cMYP Tool) is accompanied by a comprehensive User Guide, which provides an overview of important concepts, methodologies and definitions. It also provides step-by-step instruction on how to use the cMYP Tool, how to produce output information for analysis, as well as providing guidance on sources of information, and interpretation of findings.
While the cMYP Tool and User Guide are principally targeted at national immunization programme managers developing comprehensive multi-year plans, the documents can also be used by researchers, consultants, international donors and other health planners in developing countries.
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