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March 2023 | Issue 05

Sierra Leone: the Last Mile of COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery

The photos in this photo story, shot near the end of 2022 among isolated villages and dense forest in the northern district of the Sierra Leone, illustrate essential scenes in what is an extraordinary collective effort to reach high-priority groups with COVID-19 vaccines.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Progress

The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership’s collective efforts to increase vaccination rates in the countries facing the greatest challenges are paying off. Here are some of the key achievements. COVID-19 vaccine delivery wouldn’t be possible without the funding from donors & the commitment of govts & frontline workers - who make it all happen.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Situation Report

This report covers the months of December 2022 and January 2023

In this edition:

Overview: Global Situation | 92 Advance Market Commitment Countries | 34 countries for concerted support | Progress update on work of CoVDP

In-depth: Delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in the Last Mile

Country snapshot: Chad

We Must Find a Way

A Joint Convening on COVID-19 Vaccinations in Humanitarian settings and the contribution to broader pandemic preparedness, was held 14-15 February in Nairobi, Kenya. This event brought together stakeholders to critically review the current global situation of COVID-19 vaccine delivery in humanitarian settings, identify lessons learned, share good practices and develop actionable solutions for immediate implementation as well as to inform future pandemic planning and response. The meeting focused on the following themes:

Leveraging humanitarian actors and the humanitarian architecture for pandemic responses

Upstream supply, regulatory and legal considerations impacting implementation in humanitarian settings

Health Systems Strengthening and Pandemic Preparedness and Response in humanitarian settings
#WeMustFindAWay to ensure delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to areas struck by humanitarian crises. A key document on how to eliminate barriers that leave hard-to-reach populations without vaccination coverage will be released in March.
Resources for social media.

ICYMI

In case you missed it: In February the Vaccination Demand Hub - a global interagency collaboration of immunization partners working in the field of vaccine acceptance and demand, organized a meeting of partners to discuss new priorities, plans and key issues related to vaccine demand. The meeting in Nairobi brought together 80 participants from 11 countries from the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESAR) and Western and Central Africa (WCAR) regions: Angola, Cameroon, Chad, DRC, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Nigeria, Somalia, Tanzania and Kenya (host). Read more.

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Stories

In Niger, COVID-19 vaccination is reaching people where they are. Watch video:

Ethiopia: Keeping distance defied health workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sudan: The COVID-19 mega campaign: Vaccines into vaccinations

Kenya: Bringing COVID-19 vaccination closer to the people

Nigeria: How innovative strategies are influencing young people

CAR: an opportunity to support routine vaccination to save lives

Sierra Leone: Community Led Action helps to improve COVID-19 vaccine coverage

Cameroon: steps up vaccination efforts with support from partners

Botswana: How a self-financing COVAX country, solved its pandemic strategy puzzle

Nigeria: Interpreters combat misinformation among hearing-impaired

Togo: A boost to COVID-19 vaccination drive in Togo

South Sudan: COVID-19 vaccination campaign kicks off to boost coverage

Burundi: COVID-19 vaccination campaign accelerates

Zimbabwe: How an Apostolic women’s group helped counter vaccine hesitancy

Eswatini: LGBTQI organisations campaign for COVID-19 vaccination

Encouraging COVID-19 vaccination and boosting routine immunization in Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives and livelihoods of communities across Nigeria. But communities are now better protected thanks to EU Civil Protection & Humanitarian Aid’s support to the government in rolling out vaccines, with the help of dedicated partners and health workers like Fatima.

Resources, Reports and Technical Guidance

NEW: Considerations for integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes and primary health care for 2022 and beyond

This document lays out key programmatic considerations essential for moving from mass campaigns for COVID-19 vaccination to integrating COVID-19 vaccination into immunization programmes, PHC and other relevant health services.

French | Spanish | Portuguese

Global COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy in a Changing World: July 2022 update

Updated WHO SAGE Roadmap for prioritizing uses of COVID-19 vaccines

COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership Information Hub

COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation Analysis & Insights Report archives

Considerations to inform country COVID-19 vaccine decision-making

Good practice statement on the use of variant-containing vaccines

Management and safe disposal of COVID-19 vaccination waste at health facility level

WHO/UNICEF guidance document on programmatic considerations for C-19 integration into PHC

All COVID-19 vaccine delivery resources

Global Compendium of country knowledge on COVID-19 vaccination

Tools and guidance on vaccine confidence and uptake

All WHO COVID-19 vaccine resources: toolkit

All WHO COVID-19 technical guidance AR EN ES FR RU ZH

Coming up

Global Convening on COVID-19 Vaccination Monitoring and Related System Strengthening

Given the changing monitoring landscape, it is essential that engaged parties a) take stock of recent developments, b) align on the way forward on both COVID-19 vaccination monitoring and related system strengthening, and c) plan phase-over to and enhancement of existing processes. To accomplish this, the World Health Organization (WHO), alongside its partners Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and UNICEF, and the COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), is organizing a global technical convening on COVID-19 vaccination monitoring and related system strengthening. Read more.

Geo-Enabled Microplanning Handbook Webinar Launch

The WHO/UNICEF COVAX GIS working group is pleased to announce the launch of version 1 of the Geo-Enabled Microplanning Handbook. Please join an official webinar launch on Thursday, 9 March from 2-3:30pm CET.

Please save-the-date and join us at this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85040160383

The Geo-enabled Microplanning Handbook is a global effort facilitated by the WHO/UNICEF GIS Working Group which provides a step-by-step process for country implementers to plan, cost, implement, and sustain geo-enabled microplans for health service delivery.

Learn more and access the Handbook here: https://www.covid19giswg.net/geo-enabled-microplanning.

3rd International Community Health Worker Symposium, Monrovia, Liberia (20-24 March 2023)

THEME: “Advancing Community Health Worker Programs to build resilient and equitable health systems that accelerate Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage” Read more

Learning Collective Initiative in Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership

This initiative series aims to collect and share key learnings, best practices and challenges in planning and implementing COVID-19 vaccination uptake. Slides and recordings from past sessions as well as registration links for future sessions are available here. For more information on the topic of integration, see: Country experiences to date on integrating C-19 vaccination

The Vaccination Acceptance Research Network 2023 Conference

The Sabin Vaccine Institute and UNICEF, In Partnership With Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance present the Vaccination Acceptance Research Network (Varn) 2023 Conference

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