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The Chief of the village of Makontakay, Almamy, receives his second dose of COVID-19 vaccine from a mobile vaccination team in Makontakay, Sierra Leone, on 8 December 2022.
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Joint Convening on COVID-19 Vaccinations in Humanitarian settings and contribution to broader pandemic preparedness

14 February 2023 08:30 – 17:30 EAT

Despite progress on COVID-19 vaccination coverage in 2022, inequities in coverage persist, particularly in countries that are managing complex humanitarian situations. In 2023, it will be important to continue catching up on COVID-19 vaccine delivery, with a particular focus on high-priority groups, while supporting other priorities those countries have.   

A steering committee of convening partners* has organized a Joint Convening on COVID-19 Vaccinations in Humanitarian settings and the contribution to broader pandemic preparedness, to be held on February 14th and 15th in Nairobi, Kenya. This event will bring together stakeholders to critically review the current global situation of COVID-19 vaccine delivery in humanitarian settings, identify lessons learned, share good practices and develop actionable solutions for immediate implementation as well as to inform future pandemic planning and response. The meeting will focus on the following themes:  

  1. Leveraging humanitarian actors and the humanitarian architecture for pandemic responses 

  1. Upstream supply, regulatory and legal considerations impacting implementation in humanitarian settings  

  1. Health Systems Strengthening and Pandemic Preparedness and Response in humanitarian settings 

A public report and an action plan will provide a concrete roadmap for next steps. 

*Members of Steering Committee 

Africa CDC, COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership (CoVDP), Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), GAVI The Vaccine Alliance, German Federal Foreign Office (FFO), German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Global Affairs Canada, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), INTERSOS, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF),The Global Fund, The World Bank (WB), UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), World Health Organization (WHO).