Last Updated: 06/02/2026
Optimising malaria surveillance
Objectives
- Evaluate the malaria routine surveillance systems in the target locations. This includes their associated quality and use statistics, approaches, tools, challenges and interventions, as well as their associated impact or success metrics.
- Support national malaria staff to design and select intervention options that address identified gaps and challenges appropriate to the specific context.
The Optimising Malaria Surveillance project aims to enhance the availability, quality and use of routine surveillance data to improve decision-making and efficiency in malaria programmes. Mozambique, South Sudan and Uganda have been selected for their different contexts and surveillance system models. Malaria Consortium is bringing the country teams together to share their knowledge through the presentation of results, identification of similarities and differences, and discussion of the different intervention options. Lessons from all three countries are feeding into the co-design of context-appropriate prototype interventions that address challenges in the quality and use of routine malaria data.
Activities:
The project team is carrying out a desk review to collate, review and analyse relevant data. Key stakeholders from the national government and implementing partners are being engaged in qualitative interviews to identify contextual challenges and enablers. Critical analysis of the results will help to determine the effectiveness of routine surveillance improvement initiatives, and any research requirements to address key programmatic
gaps.
A cross-country learning workshop to disseminate the evaluation findings and share insights and recommendations from all three countries is taking place ahead of country-specific co-design sessions. During the final prototype design sessions, the countries’ malaria programme staff are developing several intervention prototypes that can address key gaps identified through the review stage. This ensures alignment with national strategic plans and promotes ownership for learning uptake and sustainability. The interventions are being ranked according to feasibility, achievability, effects and available resources. Malaria Consortium is engaging key stakeholders and advocating for governments, donors and partners to evaluate the effectiveness of newly designed interventions.
Jan 2025 — Dec 2026
$283,636
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