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Reem bint Ibrahim Al Hashimy, Minister of State for International Cooperation, announced that the UAE will host the Gavi 2018 mid-term review. The high-level conference will be held in Abu Dhabi on December 10-11, and will lay out a vision for the future of the Gavi model, providing an opportunity to take stock of Gavi’s performance halfway through the current strategic period 2016-2020.
The conference will outline new ways of working with partners, allowing Gavi to forge new alliances with private sector and adopt transformative solutions to advance the global immunisation agenda. At its 2015 replenishment conference in Berlin, Gavi committed to immunise 300mn additional kids in 2016-2020 strategic period, saving five to six million lives, and securing economic benefits of $80-100 billion globally.
The mid-term review will assess Gavi’s progress towards this ambitious goal. It will also be an opportunity to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Gavi’s trailblasing innovative finance instruments, such as vaccine bonds through International Financing Facility for Immunisation and Advance Market Commitment for pneumococcal vaccine. UAE was the first Gavi donor from MENA region, making its first commitment of $33 million to Gavi in 2011.