Last Updated: 12/12/2024
The PMI Measure Malaria project
Objectives
The PMI Measure Malaria project aimed to:
- strengthen country-level capacity to collect, analyze, and use routine malaria health data;
- improve country-level ability to manage health information systems (HIS) to serve malaria needs; and
- adapt and develop tools for these ends and share among malaria stakeholders the approaches needed and gains made.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States
ICF, United States
Success in malaria control must build on progress while considering new challenges. New approaches and more cost-effective interventions are needed — along with tools and guidance to leverage the evidence of what is working. To reduce malaria cases and deaths, reliable surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation (SME) systems depend upon data being of high quality so they can be relied upon. These data need to be available to all levels of health systems to support program implementation.
PMI Measure Malaria provided direct and remote malaria surveillance, monitoring, and evaluation (SME) support through various technical activities. The focus was on health information system strengthening for malaria programs, monitoring and evaluation, and aiding countries in their progress toward malaria elimination.
Support was provided through embedded senior malaria advisors at a country’s national malaria control program (NMCP) for long-term sustained support, or with technical experts from consortium members for short-term support. Some examples of the work included:
Assessing country’s current processes and capacity for data collection and reporting, quality assurance, analysis, and use
- Collaboratively developing a standard package of approaches that map to a country’s malaria transmission and SME needs
- Installing or supporting regular malaria measurement technical working groups (TWGs), assess NMCP/TWG organizational and behavioral capacity
- Providing technical assistance in data collection, quality, analysis, and use at the national and sub-national level
- Participating in the informed development of a country’s new national malaria strategic plan and M&E plan
- Strengthening capacity through direct mentorship and country-specific malaria SME workshops focusing on malaria surveillance and evaluation methods for malaria adapted to country specific needs.
Jun 2019 — Sep 2023
$35.9M
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