Guidance on operational microplanning for COVID-19 vaccination

Overview

This document outlines the eight step process for COVID -19 vaccination microplanning supporting planners and immunization programme managers at the national and sub-national levels for  implementation. This supersedes the previous version (published in 16 Nov 2021) and the revisions emphasizes the  benefits of integrating COVID-19 vaccination with routine immunization and primary health care services. It includes new information on WHO’s global COVID-19 vaccination strategy and related monitoring metrics, WHO SAGE roadmap on optimal use of uses of COVID-19 vaccines in the context of omicron and substantial population immunity, good practice statement on the use of variant-containing COVID-19 vaccines, geo-enabled microplanning and more.  

This publication was developed through a consultative process that included WHO Regional Offices, as well as partner agencies supporting the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination.

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Complementing the guidance additional resources for country users and learning participants

• Training curriculum on Operational Microplanning for COVID-19 Vaccination
  A training package for trainers who conduct face-to-face or hybrid microplanning training (i.e., training that is partially offline and partially in-person) for COVID-19 vaccination at the national, provincial, and/or district levels. (See expandable section below).
• Online training (Open WHO) curriculum on Operational Microplanning for COVID-19 Vaccination
  An interactive, web-based, knowledge-transfer platform offering online courses to improve the operational micro planning for COVID-19 Vaccination.

Training curriculum

To view previous (now outdated) versions of this guideline, please see the links below: First version, published 16 November 2021 , was originally published under the title https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-2019-nCoV-vaccination-microplanning-2021.1