The IVCC is a Product Development Partnership developing vector control products and information systems. Bringing together expertise and technical resources with an initial award of $50.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the IVCC is able to overcome the barriers that have blocked innovation in the development of vector control products.
The IVCC is a not for profit company registered as a charity in the UK. The strategy and scope of the IVCC is directed by its Executive Committee under governance of the Board of Trustees who represent a wide range of expertise as well as other stakeholders in the field.
The portfolio of public health pesticides is managed by the PHP management team, using processes of portfolio management in the chemical industry with the key success criteria of potential impact on public health. To ensure access to the wide range of necessary expertise we take advice from our Expert Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC).
Projects in the field of information systems and tools are not industrially based and are much more dependent on inter-project communication. This group of projects is therefore managed by the Interventions Consortium in a collaborative mode with the emphasis on adding value through communication and work sharing rather than portfolio management. In this case the projects are approved by the initial grant giving body and managed by the IVCC rather than the stage gate approach of the PHP portfolio. The management style is focused on dissemination and technology transfer and the ESAC operates to ensure the implementation of best practice and optimal communication with external stakeholders. New projects in this field are established by applications to external funding bodies to expand support.