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Scaling up for impact

Scaling Up for Impact Through Comprehensive Program Improvement
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A brochure describing how MACEPA contributes to national malaria programs’ success through a cycle that includes planning, monitoring and evaluation, and advocacy.

Zambia: Making Progress in the Fight Against Malaria
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A fact sheet summarizing the progress that the Government of Zambia, MACEPA, and Roll Back Malaria partners have made in Zambia toward achieving malaria control and prevention goals.

Learning Together: A Collaborative Approach to Rapid Scale-up
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A fact sheet describing MACEPA’s approach to partnership and collaborative learning.

Scaling Up for Impact: A Model for Malaria Cotrol
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A brochure providing a brief overview of the MACEPA project.

Planning

Support for Planning and Coordination
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A description of the malaria control planning process in Zambia.

Zambia National Malaria Strategic Plan 2006–2011
Zambia Ministry of Health
A six-year plan to accelerate and intensify malaria control efforts, developed by the Ministry of Health with the national Roll Back Malaria partnership.

Zambia 2007 Action Plan
Zambia Ministry of Health
An action plan for 2007 for rapidly scaling up population coverage of the essential malaria interventions, developed in a systematic process of reviewing experience in 2006, identifying discrepancies between what was planned and what was achieved, and identifying critical and feasible activities for 2007.

Resourcing and implementing

Malaria Costing Tool
Roll Back Malaria
A tool for estimating the resource requirements of proven malaria interventions over a period of time, based on a review of costing studies and an extensive consultation with malaria experts. It is intended for use by malaria control program staff as well as other individuals working in the field of malaria.

Strengthening Systems for Distributing Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets in Zambia
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A fact sheet describing the advantages of the change from centralized distribution of massive quantities of insecticide-treated bed nets to district-level distribution in Zambia.

Economic Costs of Malaria
Roll Back Malaria
An info sheet describing the direct and indirect costs of malaria, which has been shown to constrain economic development in endemic countries.

Monitoring and evaluation

The Roll Back Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group
A web page containing many useful monitoring and evaluation resources.

Monitoring and Evaluation: Roll Back Malaria
An info sheet summarizing current knowledge about monitoring and evaluation for malaria.

Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Toolkit: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
A toolkit, developed with the support of international technical agencies and M&E experts, which gathers a selection of standard indicators and provides users with references to key materials and resources.

Zambia National Malaria Indicator Survey
Zambia Ministry of Health; Zambia Central Statistical Office; CDC; WHO; PATH/MACEPA
A report on the first-ever nationally representative household survey in a malarious country that combined standard measurement protocols from Roll Back Malaria (RBM) for anemia and malaria parasite prevalence testing with data collection via hand-held computers. This effort, led by the ministry of health through the National Malaria Control Centre and in collaboration with many Zambia RBM partners, was designed to provide baseline data against which to measure progress toward achieving the ambitious goals and targets set forth in the National Malaria Strategic Plan 2006–2011.

Zambia 2006 National Malaria Indicator Survey: A Summary Review of Progress
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
A summary of the results from the Malaria Indicator Survey 2006, conducted in Zambia, which assessed progress toward achieving the goals and targets set by the National Malaria Strategic Plan 2006–2011.

Advocating

A Global Advocacy Framework to Roll Back Malaria, 2006–2015
Roll Back Malaria
A strategic framework for global malaria advocacy designed to elicit transparency of both resources and results from all Roll Back Malaria Partners and other malaria stakeholders so advocates have the information they need to persuade policymakers and donors of the moral imperative to roll back malaria.

Proposed Workplan 2007
Roll Back Malaria Malaria Advocacy Working Group
A workplan for providing advice to the Partnership Secretariat and the Roll Back Malaria Board on advocacy strategy and facilitating effective advocacy activities at global and national levels.

Advocacy in Zambia
Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA)
An overview of MACEPA’s approach to ensuring that malaria prevention and treatment is a priority in government offices, district health agencies, and the homes of those who are vulnerable to the disease.

General malaria information

Malaria fact sheets

World Malaria Report 2005
Roll Back Malaria
The first comprehensive effort by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership to take stock of where the world stands in relation to one of its most devastating diseases.

Roll Back Malaria Global Strategic Plan 2006–2015
Roll Back Malaria
A framework to guide effective and harmonized involvement of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership in implementation as a vital step in covering identified gaps.

Malaria & Children: Progress in Intervention Coverage
UNICEF
A report that chronicles African countries’ progress in scaling up malaria prevention and control interventions by presenting data obtained from the most recently conducted national surveys.

The World Bank Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa: Scaling-Up for Impact (SUFI), a Two-Year Progress Report
The World Bank
A report reviewing the first two years of this program and making recommendations for ongoing work.

Defining and Defeating the Intolerable Burden of Malaria III: Progress and Perspectives
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
A special supplement created to raise awareness for the continued need for funding and research to combat malaria.

Malaria in pregnancy

Malaria in Pregnancy
Roll Back Malaria
An info sheet summarizing current knowledge about malaria in pregnancy.

Malaria in Pregnancy Library
Update Software
A bibliographic database containing published and unpublished literature relating to malaria in pregnancy, including a trial registry of planned and ongoing trials, for use by scientists, policy makers, funding agencies, industry and other interested parties.

Treatment

Guidelines for the Treatment of Malaria (2006)
WHO Global Malaria Programme
A document which provides comprehensible, global, evidence-based guidelines to help formulate policies and protocols for the treatment of malaria. Information is presented on the treatment of uncomplicated malaria, including disease in special groups and in epidemics and complex emergency situations; and severe malaria.

Facts on ACTs (Artemisinin-Based Combination Therapies)
Roll Back Malaria
An info sheet summarizing current knowledge about the use of artemisinin-based combination therapies in the treatment of malaria.

Changing Malaria Treatment Policy to Artemisinin-Based Combinations: An Implementation Guide
Rational Pharmaceutical Management Plus Program
A document which provides guidance to countries on what actions need to be taken when considering a change in their national policy for the first-line treatment for malaria to an ACT consistent with WHO recommendations. It addresses operational and technical considerations for both the public and private sectors, and it may be used as a planning tool to identify technical assistance and resource needs.

Insecticide-treated bednets

Insecticide-Treated Mosquito Nets
Roll Back Malaria
An info sheet summarizing current knowledge about the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets for malaria control.

Indoor residual insecticide spraying

Using Geographic Information System Technology for Indoor Residual Spray Area Mapping: A Training Manual
Zambia Ministry of Health; National Malaria Control Centre
A training manual providing background information on geographic information systems technology and step-by-step instructions on how to geocode households and collect data for IRS mapping.

Using Geographic Information System Technology for Indoor Residual Spray Area Mapping: Training Report
Zambia Ministry of Health; National Malaria Control Centre
A report developed to help malaria prevention and control program planners understand how to plan and implement a training in the use of GIS for IRS mapping.

Geocoding Structures for Indoor Residual Spray Mapping in Zambia: Efforts in Chingola, Kabwe, and Solwezi Districts
Zambia Ministry of Health; National Malaria Control Centre
A document, developed for individuals involved or interested in utilizing geocoding for IRS mapping, describeing early efforts in Zambia in conducting geocoding in three districts.