This WHO publication presents the comprehensive five-year strategy for global poliovirus eradication from 2022 to 2026. Produced by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), "Delivering on a Promise" unifies all five partners — WHO, UNICEF, CDC, Rotary International, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — around shared goals and a coordinated operational framework.

The strategy is organized around two overarching goals. Goal One targets the permanent interruption of all wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) transmission through high-quality supplementary immunization activities (SIAs), expanded environmental surveillance, and strengthened AFP detection. Key priorities include reaching zero-dose children via house-to-house vaccination, integrating inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) into routine immunization, and deploying the novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) in outbreak response. Goal Two addresses sustainability: transitioning GPEI-supported surveillance, laboratory, and immunization functions into national health systems, achieving poliovirus containment under GAP-IV, and developing a post-certification immunization strategy.

The strategy covers endemic WPV1 transmission in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the expanding cVDPV2 outbreak landscape across Africa and Asia, and the performance benchmarks governing program accountability. Every SIA schedule, surveillance target, and vaccine procurement decision made between 2022 and 2026 derives from this document. It anchors accountability dialogue between GPEI partners and donor governments and drives the monitoring system used by the Independent Monitoring Board. Available in English, French, Arabic, Spanish, and Chinese.

Who should read this: Ministers of health, national immunization program directors, GPEI country representatives, surveillance coordinators, outbreak response managers, health system strengthening advisors, laboratory directors, epidemiologists, donor government representatives.

Document value: Primary reference defining all GPEI programmatic and strategic priorities for 2022–2026. Anchors every operational decision from SIA scheduling to transition planning.

Available in: English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese