For the period 2021-2025, the European Commission will allocate €300 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation (GAVI), a public-private partnership organisation, to fund vaccines and immunisation programmes for children in developing countries. This is €100 million more than the Commission had committed for 2016-2020.
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged this, on Thursday 4 June, at the GAVI virtual replenishment conference or ‘Global Vaccine Summit 2020’, hosted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (see EUROPE 12495/8).
GAVI's goal is to vaccinate 300 million children worldwide and to finance vaccine stockpiles to shield against outbreaks of infectious diseases.
At the Coronavirus Global Response pledging event, co-hosted by the European Commission on 4 May to fund the universal deployment of Covid-19 treatment and vaccine, more than €1.5 billion was pledged to GAVI, including €488 million for the vaccine when it becomes available.
The pledge of €300 million for 2021-2025 is based on the assumption that the EU's new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), and in particular the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) from which the funds would come, will be adopted as proposed by the Commission. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)