Table 1 Gavi FCE partnership framework dimensions’ description

1. Contextual factors and prerequisites: Identification of the governmental and non-governmental institutions and organizations as well as individuals involved in implementation of the Mozambique HPV vaccine demonstration project. The origins of the partnership and how the broader political environment and the global Gavi Alliance partnership has influenced this. Other Mozambique contextual factors that have facilitated or blocked the successful formation and performance of this partnership.

2. Partnership structure: Understanding the composition of the partnership’s players and their relationships with each other, as well as the connections between the implementers of the HPV vaccine demonstration project in the country.

3. Partner performance: Exploration of how effectively partners meet their deliverables and the mechanisms for accountability.

4. Partnership practices: Investigation of the functionality of the whole partnership in terms of professional trust. Additionally, any formal and informal rules and processes that govern the partnership; partners’ competencies, capacities, roles and responsibilities, the partnership coordination mechanisms and management of the partnership.

5. Partnership’s added value: Determination of partners’ perceptions of outcomes of working together, namely efficiency, effectiveness and country ownership;