WHO - World Health Organization

Published purpose

This project supports implementing the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI)’s Strategic Plan 2022 to 2029, which leads efforts on polio eradication worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO), along with other donor funding, implements this project. It aims to provide institutional support to the polio program at WHO and support project-based activities that strengthen the global, national and subnational polio eradication efforts through immunization campaigns, outbreak response and strengthening health systems. Project activities include: (1) working with targeted governments to strengthen oral polio vaccine campaign safety and quality and introducing inactivated polio vaccine into routine immunization systems; (2) providing technical assistance to front-line workers to increase immunization coverage; and (3) working with governments to transition polio assets and infrastructure to broader health goals and national health systems. The GPEI is a partnership between UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary International, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.