GAVI, THE VACCINE ALLIANCE
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) FOR SUPPORTING GENDER EQUALITY & IMMUNISATION PROGRAMMING
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE: 024-2021-GAVI-RFI
RFI OPENING DATE: 25 FEBRUARY 2021
RFI CLOSING DATE: 22ND MARCH 2021
(1) GAVI’S MISSION
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is a public-private partnership that helps vaccinate half the world’s children against some of the world’s deadliest diseases. The Vaccine Alliance brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private sector partners. Since its inception in 2000, Gavi has helped immunise a whole generation – over 822 million children – and prevented more than 14 million deaths, helping to halve child mortality in 73 developing countries. Gavi also plays a key role in improving global health security by supporting health systems as well as funding global stockpiles for Ebola, cholera, meningitis and yellow fever vaccines. After two decades of progress, Gavi is now focused on protecting the next generation and reaching the unvaccinated children still being left behind, employing innovative finance and the latest technology – from drones to biometrics – to save millions more lives, prevent outbreaks before they can spread and help countries on the road to self-sufficiency. Learn more at www.gavi.org.
(2) Background of the RFI
In June 2019, the Gavi Board approved a new five-year strategy (‘Gavi 5.0’) with a vision to ‘leave no-one behind with immunisation’ and a mission to save lives and protect people’s health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines. Building on successes of the previous strategic periods Gavi 5.0 has several key shifts to deliver on its mission, including:
- A core focus on reaching missed communities and zero-dose children with equity as the organising principle, including supporting countries to overcome gender-related barriers to accessing immunisation services and promoting equity of access for all genders to immunisation and related health services
- More differentiated, tailored and targeted approaches for Gavi eligible countries
- An increased focus on programmatic sustainability
- A stronger emphasis on supporting countries in prioritising vaccine introductions
- Providing limited and catalytic support for select former and never Gavi-eligible countries
Gavi’s 5.0 Strategy is guided by a “missed communities, first priority” principle in order to prioritise children missing out on vaccinations, including particularly those found in displaced and vulnerable communities. Almost half of these missed children reside in fragile and conflict settings.
(3) Key Results Area The objective of this RFI is to conduct market research to identify firms/organisations capable of carrying out any of the following services. Note that the firm/organisation does not need to be able to conduct all services and can identify the services that are able to provide:
