Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance
Overview
Based in Geneva, Gavi is the Vaccine Alliance, an international organisation that was created in 2000 to improve access to new and underused vaccines for children living in low-income countries. It brings together the public and private sectors with the shared goal of creating equal access to new and existing vaccines for children. Gavi was a founding signatory to IATI in 2008 and first published IATI data in March 2012.
Analysis
Gavi moved into the ‘Good’ category for the first time in eight years after its score fell by nearly five points from 2024. It continues to publish to IATI on a monthly basis.
The assessment took place during a major transition in Gavi’s operating model. In 2025 and 2026, Gavi introduced new funding allocations, a five-year holistic application process and a replacement grant-management system. This helps explain the reduced availability and currency of some documents, although the Index assesses the information available at the time of data collection.
Gavi’s score increased by just over one point for organisational planning and commitments. It disclosed data for nearly all indicators to IATI but lost points on its access-to-information policy and country-level strategy information. Its public-interest override does not apply an objective harm test to exceptions from disclosure. Gavi does not produce national country strategies; relevant strategy information is normally embedded in country applications, but current country-level documentation was not consistently available through IATI or elsewhere.
While Gavi’s score for the finance and budgets component dropped by over one point, it still published data to IATI for all the indicators. It dropped points for its disaggregated budget and project budget documents. Gavi’s project budget documents failed manual sampling as these were often out-of-date. We only sometimes found budget documents in other formats.
Although Gavi again dropped points for the project attributes component, it still scored very well for these indicators. Gavi was the fifth best donor in this year’s Index for this component. It published all indicators to IATI but dropped points on conditions due to not having the necessary project-level conditions documents.
Gavi performed particularly well for joining-up development data, improving its score by nearly two points and ranking fourth best donor in this year’s Index for this component. It published data for all the indicators to IATI, except tenders where it dropped points. Tenders failed data quality checks as Gavi’s portal was not searchable for specific tender documents, but these were found in other formats.
Gavi’s biggest drop was for the performance component, losing nearly five points compared to 2024. It published data for all indicators to IATI. However, its data for objectives, pre-project impact appraisals, and reviews and evaluations failed our quality checks. Reviews and evaluations were found elsewhere during the manual survey, but objectives were only found inconsistently and were usually out of date. Gavi scored zero points for pre-project impact appraisals. These did not meet the indicator definition as they did not contain a full evaluation of the primary and secondary, positive and negative impacts of the intended activity. It lost points for results due to the majority of results documents being out of date.
Recommendations
- Gavi should strengthen its access-to-information policy by applying an objective harm test to the exceptions from disclosure.
- Gavi should publish current country-level application and strategy information through IATI and ensure that relevant documents remain accessible during the transition to its new grant-management system.
- Gavi should improve the timeliness and completeness of its financial information, particularly disaggregated budgets and project budget documents, ensuring that budget documents published to IATI are up to date.
- Gavi should publish the necessary project-level conditions documentation to IATI to improve the completeness of its project information.
- Gavi should substantially improve the quality of its performance information. In particular, it should ensure that objectives and reviews and evaluations published to IATI are complete and up-to-date, and that results documents reflect current project performance.
- Gavi should publish comprehensive pre-project impact appraisals that meet the indicator definition, covering the primary and secondary, positive and negative impacts of intended activities.
Deep Dive
Component and overall scores are calculated using unrounded indicator scores. Individual indicator scores are rounded to one decimal place and may therefore not sum exactly to the displayed totals.