GOVERNANCE IN PHASE 2 Lisa Jacobs

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GOVERNANCE IN PHASE 2Lisa Jacobs
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Background

• Time to re-examine governance
• Well-functioning but room for improvement
• Governance should support mission
• Convergence offers opportunities
• Increased resources greater accountability
• Need to streamline

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GAVI Alliance and Fund

• Complementary roles
• Increase understanding and collaboration
• Two boards make us stronger

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The two boards

• GAVI Alliance
• Sets overall policies and monitors programmes
• Policy development
• Programming
• Strategic planning

• GAVI Fund
• Sets overall policies and monitors finances
• Fundraising
• Fiduciary control
• Resource mgmnt

• Bridging
• Single Secretariat
• Joint Board sessions
• Joint EC

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Consolidating financial management

• Expenditures
• Direct country financing
• Vaccine purchase
• Other (ADIPs, Hib, YF stockpile)
• Operational costs
• Added value activities

• Income
• 501(c)(3)
• GAVI trust account(s)
• IFFIm proceeds

• Single reporting
• Improve information
• Enhance accountability
• Best practice

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GAVI Governance structures
Alliance Board
Fund Board
IFFImCo Board
GAVI Fund Affiliate Board
Audit Finance
Develop- ment
Invest- ment
Swiss Assoc.
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GAVI Alliance Board
Governments-developing countries Bangladesh Ghana,
Benin, Cambodia
Governments- industrialized countries Norway Fran
ce Sweden

• Vaccine industry-
• developing
• country
• Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Brazil

IFFIm donor Vacant
Vaccine industry- industrialized country Merck
Vaccines
World Health Organization (WHO)
Current members
United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
Technical health institute Health Canada
The World Bank
Research institutes Gothenburg University, Sweden
Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
NGOs International Pediatric Association (IPA)
The GAVI Fund
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GAVI Alliance Executive Committee
Governments-developing countries VACANT

• Vaccine industry-
• developing
• country
• Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Brazil

Governments- industrialized countries Norway
High level Little authority
Vaccine industry- industrialized country Merck
Vaccines
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)
The World Bank
Bill Melinda Gates Foundation
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GAVI Fund Board

• Queen Rania
• Mary Robinson
• Mstislav Rostropovich
• Amartya Sen, PhD
• Rita Süssmuth
• George W. Wellde
• Wayne Berson

• Graça Machel, Chair
• Chip Lyons, EC Chair
• Dwight L. Bush
• Michel Camdessus
• Jocelyn S. Davis
• Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
• Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt

Board member nominee Allan Golston
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GAVI Fund Executive Committee

• George W. Wellde

• Chip Lyons, EC Chair
• Dwight L. Bush
• Jocelyn S. Davis
• Dr. Julian Lob-Levyt

Full authority Too many duties
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Finance Audit Committee

• Ex officio GAVI Alliance Board members
• Improve transparency
• Build upon programmatic due diligence of GAVI
  structures

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Other governance structures

• IFFImCo
• GAVI Fund Affiliate
• Swiss Association/Foundation

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DECISIONS

• Both Boards
• 1 Endorse complementary roles of the Alliance
  and Fund Boards
• Endorse directions of Framework Principles
  Memorandum agree to review and approve in
  January 2006
• 2 Confirm GAVI Fund financial agent and
  fiduciary
• GAVI Alliance Board
• 3 Delegate limited responsibility to Alliance EC
• GAVI Fund Board
• 4 Provide guidance on draft outline of
  responsibilities for Board
• 5 Request inactive members to move from
  Corporation Board
• 6 Approve creation of Fund Finance Audit
  committee