Subject: INVITATION: COVAX Facility Principles of Participation Consultation
From: COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
To: COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Cc: Talha Jalal <[email-masked]>, "Austin Liu (Consultant)" <[email-masked]>, Tania Paratian <[email-masked]>, Chioma Nwachukwu <[email-masked]>, "Isabella Paez (Consultant)" <[email-masked]>, "Ronish Darnal (Consultant)" <[email-masked]>, Santiago Cornejo <[email-masked]>, Thiago Luchesi <[email-masked]>, COVAX Facility <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2020 18:31:48 +0000

Your
Excellency,

Dear
Delegates,

We
would like to first thank you for the positive feedback
provided by you and others on
the COVAX Facility. We believe this Facility is the best approach for providing global access to safe, effective, COVID-19 vaccines quickly and responsibly.

As
the next step in our consultative process to co-create the COVAX
Facility, we invite your
government to
the  COVAX
Facility ‘Principles
of Participation’ Consultation hosted
by Gavi, CEPI and WHO with
all self-financing governments/participants that
have expressed their interest in joining the Facility.

The
consultation will take place on 11th of August
from 13:00 to 16:00
CET in
English. Please
note this
will be a working
meeting covering
a significant amount of content and will
not require formal interventions. The deep-dive topics for
the session will include allocation,
financial terms and payment, and
governance. Ahead of the
meeting we
will be sharing a
detailed agenda and two
documents:
(1) the ‘Principles
of Participation’,
and (2) a
commitment agreement term
sheet. For
your reference,
we
will first share both documents in
English – which is
the legal version – and will
follow-up with translations in
Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as
soon as they are available to us.

As
in our previous consultation we will
be able to accommodate a Head of Delegation and up to 3 representatives from
each participating
economy.
In order to maintain a direct line of communication following the session we encourage participants to
include delegates that will serve
as decision-makers
in formalizing your participation in the Facility and
that can also act as our focal point of communication. We
also kindly ask
that participating
governments submit
any questions in advance so
that we can better tailor the
content of our discussion. We
will provide
you with a link to
submit your questions by Friday
7 August.

Kindly
provide the registration details for your delegation and all e-mail
addresses, to
which all
future documents (e.g.
the ‘Principles of
Participation’ and commitment
agreement) throughout
the next month should
be sent to, by
completing the following link until Thursday 6 August, 5 PM CET. Please
indicate who the Head of Delegation is and to allow
the maximum time for questions for each economy,
we respectfully ask you to channel all questions through your Head of Delegation.

We
look forward to your
participation on 11th of August and to
our joint effort to create a global mechanism
to provide accessible,
safe, and effective COVID-19
vaccines as soon as
possible.

Please
accept, Your Excellency, the assurances of our highest consideration,

The COVAX Facility

COVAX Facility Team

Email: [email-masked]

Global Health Campus

Chemin du Pommier 40

1218 Le Grand-Saconnex

Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: + 41 22 909 65 00

Web: http://www.gavi.org

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