Key result
Resource mobilization advocacy proves as vital as technical factors for sustained polio eradication.
Why the study?
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative underestimated the difficulty and costs of eradication and faced funding shortfalls that impacted campaign success.
Advocacy for resource mobilization is critical for the success of global health initiatives like polio eradication.
Supports equal operational priority for advocacy in eradication programs; hypothesis-generating for implementation research.
This study draws lessons from the resource mobilization experiences of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). As the GPEI launched its eradication effort in 1988, it underestimated both the difficulty and the costs of the campaign. Advocacy for resource mobilization came as an afterthought in the late 1990s, when achieving eradication by the target date of 2000 began to look doubtful. The reality of funding shortfalls undercutting eradication leads to the conclusion that advocacy for resource mobilization is as central to operations as are scientific and technical factors.
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Pirio et al. (2010) conducted a review in Polio. Resource mobilization advocacy was evaluated. Advocacy for resource mobilization is as central to polio eradication operations as scientific and technical factors.
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