This document explains why gender considerations matter for immunization programming with examples of common gender-related barriers, along with concrete gender-responsive approaches and actions that...

This guide breaks down the development of situation analysis into four well detailed sections. 1. Collection and gathering of data 2. Complete immunization coverage and equity...

This guide is designed to help anyone in the health and immunization system identify and address barriers or leverage drivers to immunization by locally codesigning and evaluating human-centred,...

This position paper discusses the development of the BeSD for vaccine tool. It covers the 4 phases and key activities for the development of the tool. They include: • Initial development of the...

The guide includes tools and guidance for understanding behavioural and social drivers of vaccination, as well as guidance on how to gather, analyse and use the resuting data. Furthermore, this...

This guide aims to reinforce the central importance of quality vaccination services and to offer renewed direction to the design, delivery and evaluation of quality immunization services to increase...

This guideline describes how to plan for equity in supply chain design.

A tool to guide the process of planning the cold chain capacity. It aims to estimate the required cold chain capacity at each level and facility, while planning for or expecting significant changes...

The site contains a range of tools and guidelines that include the following: Setting a standard for the vaccine supply chain, EVM background and training resources, EVM Standard Operating...

Identifies key policy content areas and principles for the for development of National Immunisation Policy.

(a) Defines Policy Coherence for Health Equity. (b) Explains how health actors can promote policy coherence. (c) Measuring policy coherence. (d) Indicators for policy coherence. (e)Annexes...

This document provides guidance, tools and templates to implement the five stages: (1) developing concept; (2) planning and preparing; (3) conducting the review; (4) synthesizing findings; (5)...

A Reference manual which includes an overview of the survey process, tools, and indicators. An Implementation guide which provides a step-by-step instruction for a SARA survey. SARA is a health...

This toolkit brings together a set of existing tools that are in use for various aspects of country level HRH development, including situation analysis, planning, implementation, monitoring and...

Online courses with a range of Middle Level Management Training Modules including 14 management topics including the role of the National EPI manager, solving immunisation problems, planning, new...

(a) Guidance on CHW selection, education, continuing training, linkage with other health workers, management, supervision, performance enhancement, incentives, remuneration, governance, health system...

To be useful, competencies are not developed in a vacuum. The competencies framework links the competencies of the workforce to the objectives of an organization, both for planning and for...

The HERAMS App generates data and reports on health facilities (number, type, geographical location, functionality, accessibility) resources for service delivery (human resources, electricity, water...

Provides examples of gender related barriers and possible interventions to tackle them.

An overview of demand generation and its key elements and guidance on the country dialogue and process for developing the demand generation component of Gavi HSIS proposals. It outlines five main...

Brief description, uses, tools (survey protocols, preparing for survey, conducting the survey, data analysis, conclusions), and operations of a KAP survey.

Includes guidance on sampling and selection of focus group participants and explains special considerations when working with children.

A KAP document for health workers describing the decision points and the pros and cons of various choices at different stages of planning, implementing, and using study findings. Includes question...

This guidebook supports the use of the tools on understanding and addressing behavioural and social drivers (BeSD) of vaccine uptake. It guides programmes, partners and researchers to understand the...

This practical guide, developed by WHO in consultation with partners, is intended to provide direction to immunization programme managers and other national health programmes on how to improve the...

Health outcomes in urban areas are generally better than those in rural areas, but when outcomes in urban areas are disaggregated, large disparities exist between the richest and poorest. Current...

Presented as a set of published discussion papers. Main theme areas examine immunization equity from the perspectives of: Universal Health Coverage, gender, conflict, urban, rural and remote...

Guidance on planning (including planning templates), implementing vaccination services in a humanitarian emergency (including service delivery strategies, securing access, community-based...

The strategy provides content on the three steps of humanitarian intervention; 1) assessing the local epidemiological risk of VPDs among the affected population, 2) assessing vaccine selection and...

Content includes overview of approach, the detailed steps of process for the three main areas of TIP (identifying susceptible groups, determining barriers and drivers, designing interventions based...

Provides a snapshot of the range of PIRI activities and experiences across countries, describes common features and issues, and provides some practical suggestions for country planners to consider.

Information and planning tools for subnational and health facility level on vaccines and diseases, the vaccine cold chain, ensuring safe injections, microplanning for reaching every community,...

Content areas include- mapping, identifying priority communities/centres, identifying barriers, identifying solutions and workplans, session planning, defaulter tracing and working with the...

5 operational components (outreach, supervision, linking services to communities, monitoring and use of data for action and planning and management for resources).

Introducing VPD surveillance, conducting VPD Surveillance, VPD data, quality, the role of VPD surveillance in outbreaks, introduction to disease specific standards, followed by an overview of how to...

Guidelines and tools that lay the basis for a common understanding of data quality. The toolkit includes an implementation guide, associated tools and training materials organized into 3 distinct...

A flexible toolbox of methods used to evaluate different aspects of the immunization monitoring system at district and health unit (HU) levels. The assessment includes a review of data accuracy at...

A case study that demonstrates the importance of health inequality monitoring for equity-oriented policies, programmes and practices.

An overview of health inequality monitoring, data sources, measures of health inequality, and examples of inequality monitoring in practice (a set of ppt lectures and e-learning module accompanies...

The manual consists of an overview of the PIE, a description of what needs to be evaluated and what the evaluator should be looking for, and an explanation of how to synthesize the data...

Includes information on migration data by region, sub-region and country (including time series). It provides topic overviews, resources, migration data in relation to SDG targets, and country...

This handbook has section headings on Key Concepts, Definitions, and Sources, Sources of Migration Statistics (population, administrative records, including border collection, and sample surveys) and...

Allows exploration of poverty and inequality indicators for countries and regions, as well as country exploration by various income levels- low, lower middle, and upper middle income, and access...

Allows exploration of poverty and inequality indicators for countries and regions, as well as country exploration by various income levels – low, lower middle, and upper middle income, and access...

Outlines a 5-step process for establishing health inequality monitoring systems in countries where it is not currently conducted. A flow chart shows the steps and sub-steps of the health inequality...

A source of information on global, regional and country level data on universal health coverage across the domains of Service Coverage, Financial Protection, Health Systems Strengthening, and Health...