Earlier this week, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, managed to secure $7.54 billion in aid commitments for its work in the next five years. But many longstanding donors were curiously absent from Tuesday’s pledging table in Berlin, Germany.
As Devex reported ahead of the conference, Denmark didn’t pledge new funding for the public private partnership since its work no longer jives with the bilateral donor’s global health priorities.
But there were others: Brazil, which pledged $12 million previously, for instance, and Japan, which was present but didn’t make any immediate commitment; and a host of other investors.
Read more articles on the pledging conference:
● Yes we can: $7.5B Gavi goal reached in Berlin
● China makes first aid commitment to Gavi
● US to commit $1B to Gavi until 2018
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
