Vision: The Malaria Working Group supports existing national collaborative partnerships and promotes new partnerships in which NGOs can actively be engaged in national level policy formation and innovative programming to scale up malaria prevention and control.

• A Call to Action - The CORE Group Malaria Brochure

2007 Working Group Highlights

The Malaria WG continues to support the PVO Representative in the Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership Board, and share experiences from the VOICES advocacy project from Mali and Kenya to their Advocacy Reference Group. Additional highlights from this year include:

• Implementation of VOICES activities in Kenya and Mali, including the training of journalists and NGOs in Malaria advocacy.

• Successful completion of PMI Tanzania activities. Through subgrants to PSI, Worldvision and Ifakara Health Research Centre, CORE Group procured 300,000 insecticide treatment kits to make ITNs longer lasting, trained over 6,000 reproductive health clinic staff in the Tanzania National Voucher Scheme (TNVS), and conducted evaluation activities for the TNVS.

• The Malaria working group supported MACIS, the Malaria and Childhood Illness NGO Secretariat, which has used information gathered through surveys and direct contact with partners to establish an NGO Malaria Information System for Tanzania. This dynamic information-sharing platform allows partners to click on a map and access information on NGO malaria activity by district. The system will enhance dissemination of information among NGO partners and the Ministry of Health, an important step towards better-informed, more effective coordination.

• Past highlights

Working Group Tools/Resources

• 2008 KPC Malaria Module
• 2006 Malaria Technical Reference Materials [English]
• 2004 Malaria Technical Reference Materials [French]
• KeNAAM Newsletter - May 2007
• Christian Children's Fund Senegal Malaria Brief - January 2007
• Public Health, Bayer Environmental Science Journal, November 2006. Special issue on insecticide resistance and malaria.
• Advocating, Brokering and Coordinating Field Visits and Health Mobile Clinics for Hard-to-Reach Communities in Kanungu District - A MACIS Best Practice 2006
• CORE Paper: Joint NGO Implementation of Community-Based Treatment of Malaria in Rwanda
• National Malaria Workshop Facilitator's Guide
• CORE Case Study: Partnerships in Action An Integrated Approach to Combining a Measles Campaign with a Bed Net, Vitamin A and Mebendazole Campaign in Zambia
• CORE Case Study: Improving Malaria Case Management in Ugandan Communities: Lessons From the Field
• CORE Case Study: Community-Based Solutions for Effective Malaria Control: Lessons from Mozambique
• CORE Field Story: Bringing Down Mosquito Fever: How NGOs Promote Home-Based Treatment of Malarial Fever in Uganda
• CORE Field Story: Casting A Wide Net: How NGOs Promote Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets
• Surviving Malaria Decision Guide: A Programming Tool for Promoting Appropriate Case Management of Malaria in Infants and Young Children
• Baseline Survey of the Rwanda Community: Distribution of Anti-Malarials Pilot Program

For additional resources, see Child Health + Development database.

Working Group Meetings and Reports

• Malaria Advocacy Training Workshop Nairobi, Kenya - January 2007

• Indoor Residual Spraying State of the Art Technical Update - January 2007

• RBM Partnership Forum Five Call to Action

• Ethiopia National Malaria Workshop Report

• CORE Annual Malaria Secretariats Meeting Report

• Malaria in Pregnancy Strategic Framework

• Scaling Up Insecticide Treated Netting Programmes in Africa

Working Group Toolbox

• Working Group Member List

Useful Links

• CDC Malaria Page
• European Alliance Against Malaria
• The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
• The Roll Back Malaria Partnership
• U.S. Presidential Malaria Initiative
• VOICES for a Malaria Free Future - JHU CCP
• WHO Global Malaria Program (GMP)
• WHO Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria: January 2006
• World Malaria Report 2005
• Zambia Malaria Foundation

Photo: Nigel Marsh/World Vision