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RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE INDEPENDENT MONITORING BOARD

Tuesday, 28th of October 2014

For full text of the IMB report, go to www.polioeradication.org and click on the link for the Independent Monitoring Board, with access to the current and all previous reports.

The IMB recommends:

• That the Prime Minister and Cabinet of Pakistan order the National Disaster Management Authority to take on the task of stopping polio in Pakistan, with immediate effect.

• That the plan for Pakistan’s Emergency Operations Center be strengthened, to provide intelligence and coordination functions in support of the National Disaster Management Authority’s work. If there is delay in adopting the National Disaster Management Authority recommendation, the EOC should be strengthened to have the capacity and power that they need to run a programme truly set on eradication.

• A special meeting of the Independent Monitoring Board in early 2015 with those who will lead the eradication of polio from Pakistan, at federal level, in each province and in FATA. It is to be hopedthat the government of the United Arab Emirates might play an important part in such a meeting.

• That the World Health Organization headquarters take over the management of the Central Africa outbreak from the World Health Organization African Regional Office, freeing the latter to focus on the Ebola crisis and simultaneously enabling a decisive Central Africa polio outbreak response.

• That the International Health Regulations Expert Committee make a recommendation that all countries receiving travellers from polio-infected countries should ensure that they have a valid vaccination certificate, as a condition of entry. That this should be implemented urgently.

• That the programme better integrate its work to strengthen routine immunisation with work to stop polio transmission. That Gavi is invited to become the sixth core partner, and its Chief Executive to join the Polio Oversight Board.