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GAVI Alliance Audit and Finance Committee Meeting
28 October 2011
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GAVI Alliance Audit and Finance Committee Meeting
28 October 2011
Geneva, Switzerland/Washington, DC USA


FINAL MINUTES


1. Chair?s report

1.1 Finding a quorum of members present, the meeting commenced at 16.02
Geneva time on 28 October 201 1. Wayne Berson , Audit and Finance
Committee Chair , chaired the meeting .

1.2 Standing declarations of interest were tabled to the Committee (Doc 1a in the
Committee pack).

1.3 The Committee reviewed the minutes of it s meeting s on 23 September 2011
(Doc s 1b and 1c ). The Committee requested that the minutes clarify that it
would like to see best and worst case scenarios in financial forecasting.

1.4 The Committee r eviewed its action sheet (Doc 1 d) and its forward workplan
(Doc 1 e).

Decision One

The GAVI Alliance Audit and Finance Committee :

? Approved the minutes of its meeti ngs on 23 September 2011 (Docs 1b and
1c).

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2. Financial forecast and programme funding

2.1 Barry Greene, Managing Director of Finance and Operations and Tony
Dutson, Senior Director, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer informed the
Committee of the updated financial forecast for 2011 -2016, and requested
that the Committee confirm that the Board or Executive Committee could
endorse budgets and approve funding for GAVI programmes ( as outlined in
Doc 2) , in accordance with the Programme Funding Policy . The forecast
incorporated the latest demand estimates, funding decisions ta ken to date,
and the current level of resources. Notably, the latter figure reflected the
results of the 13 June 2011 Pledging Conference, additional contributions
 

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Minutes of the GAVI Alliance Governance Committee Meeting
5 October 2011
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GAVI Alliance Governance Committee Meeting
5 October 2011
Teleconference


FINAL M INUTES


1. Chair?s report

1.1 Finding a quorum of members present, the meeting commenced at 17.02
Geneva time on 5 October 2011. Dagfinn H?ybr?ten , Governance Committee
Chair , chaired the meeting .

1.2 Standing declarations of interest were tabled to the Committee (Doc #1a in
the Committee pack). Olga Popova noted her interest in matters involving
Crucell and the industrialised country vaccine industry, and did not participate
in a side session concerning the participation of the vaccine industry in the
governance structures.

1.3 The Committee reviewed the minutes of it meeting on 6 July 2011 (Doc # 1b)
and its forward workplan (Doc #1 c).

Decision One

The GAVI Alliance Governance Committee :

? Approved the minutes of its meeting on 6 July 2011.

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2. CEO report

2.1 Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, provided the Committee with an
overview of the number of governance -related events conducted during the
course of 2011. In sum, it is forecasted that 72 governance -related meetings
will be held by the time 2011 concl udes , and that 312 papers will have been
tabled to support those meetings. He noted that this work is important but is
extremely heavy for the Secretariat and partner staff to support.

2.2 The CEO also commented that GAVI?s strategic emphasis on active m arket
shaping, and the Secretariat?s associated mandates , would require he and
certain members of his staff to be privy to commercially sensitive information
 

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GAVI Alliance Program me and Policy Committee Meeting
28 -30 September 2011
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GAVI Alliance Programme and Policy Committee Meeting
28 -30 September 2011
Geneva , Switzerland


FINAL MINUTES


1. Chair?s report

1.1 Finding a quorum of members present, the meeting commenced at 9.15
Geneva time on 28 September 2011. Gustavo Gonzalez -Canali, the Chair of
the Programme and Policy Committee, chaired the meeting .

1.2 The Chair welcomed Klaus Stohr as a new member to the Comm ittee. He
also welcomed Seth Berkley, GAVI?s new CEO, to his first meeting. He
thanked Helen Evans, Deputy CEO, for her service over the past year as a
Committee member .

1.3 The Chair also mentioned that this would be the final Committee meeting for
Leone Gianturco, Magi d Al -Gunaid, Rama Lakshminarayanan , Nguyen Tran
Hien and Joan Awunyo -Akaba . He thanked the departing members for their
service and commitment to the GAVI Alliance generally and the Committee in
particular .

1.4 In accordance with the Conflict of Interest Policy , standing declarations of
interest (Doc #01a) were tabled to the Committee so that any potential
interests in the matters to be discussed could be transparent and addressed
in compliance with t he Policy. The Chair announced, upon advic e from the
Managing Director, Law and Governance, that during the discussion on the
vaccine supply and procurement strategy , representatives of the vaccine
industry would attend the Secretariat?s presentation and be allowed to present
their viewpoints befo re being requested to leave the room for the remainder of
the discussion and any decision to be taken .

1.5 The Chair referred to the minutes of the Committee?s meeting on 9 May 2011
(Doc # 01b) . These minutes were approved by no objection on 15 July 2011
under section 2.7.3.3 of the By -Laws .

1.6 Nina Schwalbe, Managing Director, Policy and Performance updated the
Committee on ongoing tasks assigned to it and progress to date, including
progress on the partner support task team; questions around the possibilit y for
countries to self -procure vaccines; and review of the vaccine introduction
grant . She also noted that the Secretariat has reviewed the impact on