WHO-UNICEF Guidelines for Developing a Comprehensive Multi-year Plan (cMYP)

WHO-UNICEF comprehensive multi-year plan (cMYP) for immunization guidelines offers planning and costing tools for managers to follow when developing a  cMYP or ensuring the quality of an existing one. This document is not intended to encompass all strategies for developing these plans but instead an up-to-date, comprehensive single method.

This guide presents a series of steps to develop a comprehensive multi-year plan for immunization (cMYP), and includes both a planning tool and a costing tool. As managers review and assess the results of each step in the process, they should ensure that the plan meets global targets, national policy priorities and available resources.

Repeated periodically, the cMYP becomes a living document that adjusts to changing conditions, generates empirically-based budget requests and provides up-to-date information for advocacy and reporting. This guide represents just one way of developing a multi-year plan. Many countries have existing planning methods that already address many of these elements and, in this case, the cMYP guidelines and tools can help ensure quality and act as a reference for national programme planners.