Principles
GAVI Alliance activities and/or financial support should:
- Contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), focusing on performance, outcomes and results
- Promote equity in access to immunisation services within and among countries
- Support nationally-defined priorities, budget processes and decision-making
- Be supportive of country participation through absence of earmarking of funds
- Focus on underused and new vaccines – as opposed to upstream research and development activities
- Contribute to the development of innovative models and approaches that can be introduced and applied more broadly
- Be coherent with GAVI Alliance partners' individual institutional obligations and mandates
- Be catalytic and time-limited (though not necessarily short-term) and not replace existing sources of funding
- Support activities that over time become financially sustainable, or do not need to be sustained in order to have accomplished their catalytic purpose
- through market impact and innovative business models render vaccines and related technologies more affordable for the poorest countries
- be based on accountability, transparency, efficiency and effectiveness
- be consistent with the principles of harmonisation as agreed by OECD/DAC Paris High Level Forum
GAVI has also endorsed the Global Health Partnership’s best practice principles, which are based on the OECD/DAC 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness.
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