Strategic vaccine procurement assessment toolbox

What is the purpose of the assessment toolbox?

Assessing national vaccine procurement systems can identify bottlenecks and help mitigate risks and challenges. Several assessment tools have been developed by international institutions and partners with different purposes, scopes and assessment frameworks. Each one therefore takes a different approach to how they cover vaccine procurement, whether from a regulatory or managerial angle, or even including procurement as a component of a larger assessment.  component of a larger assessment. 
 

What is the assessment toolbox?

The Vaccine Procurement Assessment Toolbox is an online, interactive and user-friendly tool that will help the user to identify which of the existing stand-alone assessment tools fits best with the government’s needs. This site therefore offers a compilation of resources for countries wishing to assess their vaccine procurement processes, providing an overview of each stand-alone assessment tool identified within this site. 

This toolbox will further support governments to define a framework for a procurement system assessment, which involves the identification of the purpose, the scope and methodology to be used for such an assessment. It will help the user to:  

i) identify gaps and priorities across the vaccine procurement processes; 

ii) track achieved progress from the deployed interventions;

iii) generate evidence to support strategic and tactical decisions. 
 

What does the assessment toolbox include? 

The Vaccine Procurement Assessment Toolbox is not another stand-alone assessment tool, but rather provides a methodology for procurement practitioners to identify the key aspects of the procurement system for immunization supplies that need to be covered in an assessment, as well as selected parameters that can be considered for further adaptation in such an assessment.   

The assessment toolbox provides countries (national governments and  partners) with a rapid assessment tool to measure supply chain strengthening progress and to track partner contribution in national supply chain strengthening efforts. Based on the results from this rapid assessment tool, the country can then initiate its own roadmap to further define the bottlenecks identified and mitigating solutions to develop an effective procurement model. 

The assessment toolbox is offered free of charge and can be broadly leveraged to support advocacy efforts for funding, as well as for reporting and monitoring progress to guide investment decisions and resource allocation. It can also support a government’s prioritization of efforts to identify areas to strengthen its procurement processes.  

The landscape analysis provides a more detailed explanation.