Gavi is a global health partnership dedicated to increasing access to life-saving vaccines for children in the world's poorest countries. Since its establishment in 2000, Gavihas helped immunise more than 1 billion children and has prevented more than 17 million future deaths.

However, despite significant progress in recent years, millions of children around the world still lack access to basic vaccines that could protect them from deadly diseases. This lack of immunisation not only leads to unnecessary suffering and death but also contributes to the perpetuation of poverty and inequality. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance of global vaccination efforts in safeguarding public health and preventing future outbreaks.

Gavi is at the forefront of the global effort to expand access to vaccines for children in low-income countries. It plays a critical role in bringing us closer to the Sustainable Development Goal of Universal Health Coverage, ensuring that no one is left behind.

Results believe that every child, no matter where they are born, has the right to a healthy life. Vaccines are one of the best ways to ensure this. Routine vaccinations are the most effective way to ensure that children in poorer countries have a future beyond the age of five, enabling them to grow up and live happy, healthy lives.

Results advocacy for Gavi is crucial in ensuring that the Australian Government continues to commit significant funding to this lifesaving initiative. Results advocacy and campaign efforts are essential in:

• Increasing awareness: our advocacy helps to raise awareness about the importance of vaccines and immunisation in preventing diseases and saving lives. By advising and educating our MPs and policymakers, we are ensuring they understand the problem at hand and the solutions that are required.
  

• Building political support: we advocate tirelessly to drive political support for Gavi at the federal level. By engaging with MPs and other key decision-makers, we are building the case for substantial government investment in Gavi’s mission and programs.
  

• Influencing policies: our work plays a crucial role in shaping and influencing our government’s policy agenda. Our deep relationships, strong partnerships, and trusted expertise ensure we are well-placed to influence aid and development policy and ensure Australia is committing its fair share to Gavi.

• Mobilising resources: our advocacy has mobilised tens of millions of dollars for Gavi’s immunisation programs. This funding has ensured Gavi can continue to support the introduction of new vaccines to children in poorer countries, strengthen health systems and improve immunisation coverage worldwide.
  

• Ensuring accountability: we ensure our government is held accountable for its commitments to immunisation and global health and is doing its part in being a good international citizen.

Since 2011, Results has advocated tirelessly for increased Government funding in Gavi. We campaigned extensively with our CSO partners to ensure that the Australian Government made a significant financial contribution at each Gavi replenishment event in 2011, 2015, and 2020. We were successful in securing transformational funding for each replenishment, with the government pledging $250 million, $250 million, and $300 million respectively. These contributions have made Australia Gavi’s second-largest donor and strongest supporter in the Asia-Pacific region, and most importantly, these contributions have saved the lives of millions of children worldwide.

Results advocates for the work of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), an international partnership founded in 1988. It has helped countries to make huge progress in protecting the global population from this debilitating disease, and as a result, the global incidence of polio has decreased by 99.9% since the programme’s inauguration.

When the GPEI was founded, polio paralysed more than 1,000 children every day. Since then, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunised against polio thanks to the cooperation of more than 200 countries and 20 million volunteers. It is estimated that 16 million people today are walking who would otherwise have been paralysed by the disease, and more than 1.5 million people are alive whose lives would have otherwise been lost. Now, the task remains to tackle polio in its last few strongholds and get rid of the final 0.1% of polio cases that remain.

Nutrition provides the foundation for children to grow and economies to develop.

Results has a significant track record of impact on nutrition. Our organisation has its origins in the movement to end hunger in the 1970s. For decades, Results has concentrated on the nutrition of children in the earliest stages of life, with the goal of reducing malnutrition.

Our advocacy on this issue has led to a $10 million commitment from the Australian Government to the International Fund for Agricultural Development, a United Nations agency specialising in reducing rural poverty, and a $40 million commitment for nutrition programs in the Asia-Pacific region at the Nutrition for Growth Summit in 2013.

The world is off track to meet Sustainable Development Goal 2.2 to end all forms of malnutrition by 2030. Results is committed to ensuring the Australian Government stand in global solidarity with the world's poorest nations. We encourage Australia to contribute to an established global partnership devoted to tackling malnutrition that particularly affect women and children (such as the Global Financing Facility for Women, Children and Adolescents).