COVID-19 Vaccine Introduction and deployment Costing tool (CVIC tool)
Version 2.3
Overview
The CVIC tool supports credible COVID-19 vaccination costing to facilitate a dialogue with stakeholders, while maintaining sensitivity to protect essential health services.
The CVIC tool provides a structured and comprehensive estimation of incremental operational and selected capital costs of introducing and deploying COVID-19 vaccines, in alignment with the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan (NDVP). This is essential for resource mobilization, budgeting, and delivery strategy refinement and optimization. The tool has been pre-populated with data from global databases and provides a total cost estimate over an immunization programme over the period of 2021-2023, after which COVID-19 vaccination is expected to be integrated into national immunization plans. Countries can customize the priority target populations based on WHO SAGE guidance and select multiple delivery strategies and vaccine products. The tool is available in all six UN working languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish) and Portuguese. Guidance on the use of the CVIC tool can be referred to its user manual and its e-learning course at OpenWHO.
In this updated version 2.3 of the tool, some minor bugs have been fixed and new features have been added to the following areas:
- pregnant women as a target population; and
- a calculator for combinations of vaccine products for each deliver modality.
Countries can submit request of their resource needs to the WHO COVID-19 Partners Platform through uploading a completed CVIC tool. The cost categories for technical assistance and funding resource requests through the platform are in line with the CVIC tool.
Special versions
To minimize barriers of entry, a sub-version of CVIC - CVIC EZ tool for AMC92 countries - with a larger set of pre-filled defaults can be used. Formulae and estimation models remain the same to ensure compatibility. This can be used as a starting point for an engagement on costing NOT as the finalized costing estimate. Please refer to a short explainer on this CVIC EZ tool.
For countries intended to cost out the plan sub-nationally or for any other territories not in the CVIC tool, a special version – CVIC tool for custom territories – is available. This special version allows users to specify their own territory but less pre-populated data would be available.
Support and query
Technical support on the use of the CVIC tool is available. The WHO Costing Team can be reached through CVICosting@who.int.
Given the rapidly evolving situation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CVIC tool may have to be updated at some points. In order to make sure all users of the tool will be informed of any update, we highly encourage all users to download and use the latest version and fill in this quick 'download tracker'. Once we have any update of the tool, we will update you through email.
