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.

The Global Fund is a worldwide partnership to defeat HIV, TB and malaria and ensure a healthier, safer, more equitable future for all. The Global Fund raises and invests more than US$5 billion a year to fight the deadliest infectious diseases, challenge the injustice that fuels them, and strengthen health systems and pandemic preparedness in more than 100 of the hardest hit countries.

In 2022, the Global Fund disbursed a record US$5.2 billion to fight HIV, TB and malaria, support COVID-19 Response Mechanism (C19RM) activities and strengthen the systems for health that underpin any pandemic response. They unite world leaders, communities, civil society, health workers and the private sector to find solutions that have the most impact, and they take them to scale worldwide.

To achieve the greatest impact against the deadliest infectious diseases, the Global Fund challenges power dynamics to ensure affected communities have an equal voice in the fight against TB, HIV and malaria, and an equal chance at a healthy future. By working together, the Global Fund and its partners are getting close to achieving the goals the world once deemed impossible – ending HIV, TB and malaria as public health threats.

Results' health equity and TB campaigns have often focussed on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, as this respected public-private partnership provides 76% of all international TB financing. Our first major success with the Global Fund was in 2008-09, when our support and government outreach was acknowledged by the Global Fund as key factors leading to Australia's participation in the Debt2Health initiative, which results in millions of dollars being directed to domestic TB programs in Indonesia.

Results has since been a leading player in the Global Fund's triennial replenishment events. Supported by our national network of volunteer advocates, and aligned civil society partners domestically and globally, we work to raise the awareness of the burden of TB in the Indo-Pacific region and encourage Australia to contribute its fair share to the Global Fund.

Since our involvement began, the Australian Government's pledges have increased from $135 million for the Second Replenishment in 2007 to $266 million for the Seventh Replenishment in 2022.

Established in 2002, the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is the only global fund dedicated solely to strengthening education systems in the world’s poorest countries. GPE brings together national governments, donor countries, multilateral agencies, international organizations, foundations, the private sector, and civil society to allocate technical and financial resources where they are needed most.

Over the past 13 years, GPE has provided US$4.7 billion towards the development and implementation of national education plans in the world’s poorest countries, including US$2 billion to conflict-affected countries.

​In 2021 Results joined a global campaign to help transform the global education system. Despite significant progress on education over the last two decades, 53% of children in low and middle-income countries still cannot read by the time they finish primary school, and nearly a quarter of a billion children are completely excluded from education. Global progress has been further eroded by the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19.

Faced with this challenge, our solution was to help improve financing for global education efforts, specifically through the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). For every $1 invested through the GPE Multiplier facility, they have helped to mobilise $3.90 in external funding.

The GPE held its Global Education Summit in July, raising over $4 billion in pledges, plus a commitment of $196 billion in domestic education financing over the next five years.

Results brought together former Chair of the GPE Board and former Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard AC with dozens of other key stakeholders including a youth activist from Vietnam in our own national event, highlighting the widespread support for Australian investment in global education. This was a key step leading up to the Australian Government’s pledge of $180 million to the GPE.

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.

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) was established in 2017 as a response to the Ebola epidemic, in order to develop vaccines for future disease threats to ensure pandemics are no longer a threat. A nearly 100% effective vaccine that had been under development for over a decade was not used for over a year into the Ebola outbreak, suggesting quicker development of vaccines against known threats was needed.

CEPI strives to “accelerate the development of vaccines against emerging infectious diseases and enable equitable access to these vaccines for people during outbreaks” by working as a coalition of governments, philanthropy, global health organisations, vaccine developers and manufacturers, and civil society.

If not for the work of CEPI, the development of COVID-19 vaccines could have been a much slower, costlier, and poorly organised affair.

As a partner in the EndCovidForAll coalition, Results was successful in campaigning for a $100 million commitment from the Australian Government for CEPI at the Global Pandemic Preparedness Summit in 2022. This contribution, alongside funding from other donors partners, will enable CEPI to implement a six-point plan that will see enormous benefits to the global health system:

• Strengthening defences against COVID-19;

• Developing vaccines for known threats;

• Working to compress vaccine development timelines to 100 days;

• Producing a library of prototype vaccines;

• Establishing global networks for lab capacity; and

• Boosting global manufacturing capacity by supporting low-income and middle-income countries.

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).