UNICEF’s Global Immunization Budget Database is a dynamic, user-friendly platform offering transparent, country-level data on domestic immunization budgets. Sourced directly from official national budget documents, it supports monitoring financing sustainability, strategic planning, and targeted advocacy for immunization programs. Ideal for policymakers, planners, and global health advocates [UNICEF, 2025].
Methodology guidance for helping a country’s government develop a framework for more reliable and timely data on immunization expenditures that is comparable both across countries and over time [WHO, 2021].
An open-access tool to assist advocates and decision-makers in evaluating the pros and cons of potential financing sources. The guide offers 26 briefs, including eight country case studies detailing different financing approaches that nations have adopted [R4D, 2017].
Read the primer on methodologies for generating immunization spending data, the types of policy and program issues the data can help address, and how immunization program managers can support the production and use of immunization expenditure data. There is also a webinar on immunization spending data to inform policy and planning [Abt Associates, 2018].
The Decade of Vaccine Economics (DOVE) project at IVAC-JHSPH published a methodology report, developed collaboratively with DOVE-ROI Core Advisory Group members from 9 institutions to support Gavi’s mid-term review and investment case. [DOVE, 2019].
This paper sets out a problem-driven approach to diagnosing PFM problems in health services delivery to better inform UNICEF country office operation, and potentially for use by country governments in tackling and solving these problems as well [UNICEF, 2023].
Information on financial flows from external, government, and other domestic sources are documented and quantified as input for policy dialogue on sustainability and co-financing of new vaccines. Download the instrument used to map funding for immunization in six countries, conducted as part of the Expanded Program on Immunization Costing and Financing of Routine Immunization (EPIC) studies [EPIC, 2012].
This platform provides immunization financing data to inform decision-making and advocacy. Each country’s data can be compared with data from its income group or WHO region [WHO, 2024].
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