Abstract：
As dozens of new National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs) were established worldwide in the past decade, and as existing NITAGs continued to play an important role in vaccine policy, global NITAG partners recognized a need for a standardized assessment tool to evaluate and strengthen their functions. This article describes the development of the NITAG Maturity Assessment Tool (NMAT), a stepwise evaluation tool that assesses NITAGs on seven key indicators of structure and process. A draft tool was developed through an iterative, consensus-based process with an expert working group before it was piloted with an economically and geographically diverse convenience sample of NITAGs. The final NMAT is a flexible tool that can be used by in-country or external evaluators to understand NITAG maturity, identify priorities for optimization, and measure the impact of strengthening efforts.
摘要：
在过去十年中，随着数十个新的国家免疫技术咨询组（NITAG）在全球范围内成立，随着现有的NITAG继续在疫苗政策中发挥重要作用，NITAG全球合作伙伴认识到需要一个标准化的评估工具来评估和加强其职能。本文介绍了NITAG成熟度评估工具(NMAT)的开发，一种逐步评估工具，可根据结构和过程的七个关键指标评估NITAG。通过迭代开发了一个草稿工具，在采用经济和地理上不同的NITAG便利样本进行试点之前，与专家工作组进行了基于共识的流程。最终的NMAT是一个灵活的工具，可用于国内或外部评估人员了解NITAG成熟度，确定优化的优先级，并衡量加强努力的影响。
