At the conclusion of the first phase of technical assistance, it was recommended that these 3 critical issues be clarified by the programme management, and that a national policy statement be issued, giving clear guidance on the required vaccine storage temperatures at each level, the temperatures for vaccine transport between levels, and the required quantities for vaccine reserve stocks to be maintained in each case. To facilitate this process, a draft ‘National Vaccine Distribution & Storage Schedule’, showing the recommended values for each of these variables was proposed