The World Bank’s Role in Global Vaccine Financing The World Bank Group plays a critical role in strengthening global immunization efforts through its longstanding commitment to development and poverty reduction
World Bank Support for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines The World Bank Group is working with partners on the largest vaccination effort in history to stop the COVID-19 pandemic See the latest project financing, project documents and procurement information
World Bank Group and Global Fund: A strengthened partnership for global . . . The World Bank Group (WBG) and the Global Fund have a long history of this alignment, and since 2016, have collaborated on 13 joint investments across 10 countries, mobilizing approximately 185 million in grant financing and leveraging more than $3 billion in total joint investments to advance health outcomes and strengthen health systems
How the World Bank Group is helping developing countries to vaccinate . . . In response, the World Bank Group has embarked on the fastest and largest crisis response in our history Since March 2020, we have deployed more than $150 billion to help countries fight the health, economic, and social impacts of the pandemic
Gavi and the World Bank partner to vaccinate more children For over a decade, the World Bank Group and Gavi have partnered across Africa and Asia to expand access to immunization Over the past five years alone, our collaboration has delivered $1 8 billion in joint investments to strengthen the health systems that make vaccinations possible
ACCELERATING ACC E L E R AT I N G COV I D - 1 9 VACC I N E D E With support from a range of development partners and the World Bank’s vaccine financing operations, the Government adopted a multi-pronged approach to addressing hesitancy, with visible results
How the World Bank built trust in vaccine bonds IFFIm is important to the World Bank because the Bank’s mission is to reduce poverty and help improve the lives of people in poor countries A key foundation of attaining this development goal is the protection of children’s health, and vaccination is at the heart of this goal
Solving the vaccination gaps - World Bank Blogs Through vaccine financing operations, the World Bank is already assisting 54 countries not only with procurement but also, with closing country-level deployment gaps – including expanding storage and cold chain capacity, training health workers, building trust in immunizations through citizen and community engagement, and strengthening data and
Accelerating COVID19 Vaccine Deployment. pdf - World Bank The communique requested the WHO and World Bank, and implementing partners work further with countries to report on obstacles to, and accelerate, vaccine deployment strategies to get more COVID-19 shots into arms
Low-Income Countries Spend Just $17 Per Capita Annually on Health New World Bank Group Report Highlights Health Financing Challenges for the Future Workforce Washington, D C , November 19, 2025 —Despite efforts by many developing countries to sustain health spending under fiscal pressure, investments remain insufficient to fund essential health services—critical for saving lives, creating jobs, and driving growth—according to a new World Bank Group