LNCT Webinar: Assessing Bottlenecks to Adequate and Predictable Vaccine Financing

Please join us on Tuesday, June 23, 2020 for LNCT webinar, Assessing Bottlenecks to Adequate and Predictable Vaccine Financing. Diagnosing the root cause of constraints affecting the adequacy and predictability of vaccine financing is an important part of the Gavi transition. The World Bank created a tool that aims to help country counterparts pinpoint the root cause of their vaccine financing constraints. Participants will learn how the tool helps identify “risks” in the budgeting and planning process that would either prevent a country from allocating adequate, timely and predictable financing for vaccines, either in its co-financing payments to Gavi or through its payments for other non-Gavi subsidized vaccines. Participants will discuss the results in the context of Nigeria’s transition planning process and discuss how recognition of weaknesses in vaccine planning, forecasting and budgeting led to policy actions that would pave the way for a successful transition. The discussion will also highlight challenges facing the country in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and how work on transition planning might help to mitigate this impact.

Date: June 23, 2020
Time: 11:00-12:00 PM Abuja / 2:00-3:00 PM Tbilisi / 5:00-6:00 PM Bangkok
Details: This session will be hosted in English, but simultaneous interpretation will be offered in French, Portuguese, and Russian, as needed. If you need interpretation for this event, please register by June 18th so that we can schedule an interpreter.
Registration: Click Here to Register for the Webinar

Panelists:

• Sarah Alkenbrack, Senior Health Economist, World Bank
• Chijioke Samuel Okoro, Consultant, World Bank
• Ganiyu Salau, Financial Management Officer (GCCO), National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Nigeria