Last Updated: 13/02/2025
Isdell: Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative (IFCBMI)
Objectives
The J.C. Flowers Foundation’s Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative (IFCBMI) is committed to malaria elimination through community mobilization along the shared borders of Angola, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. IFCBMI aims to:
- Strengthen networks of community malaria volunteers and community health workers.
- Equip faith leaders to be champions for malaria elimination.
- Engage village headmen and other traditional leaders, schoolchildren and teachers, and existing community groups to address barriers to malaria elimination.
- Implement community action planning that is data-driven.
Anglican Diocese of Angola
Council of Christian Churches in Angola (CICA)
Anglican Diocese of Namibia
Namibia Anglican Community Development Organization (NACDO)
Anglican Diocese of Lusaka, Zambia
Anglican Diocese of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
Methodist Church in Zimbabwe Harare East District
Since 2004, Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria Initiative partners have worked with networks of local faith organizations and community volunteers, in collaboration with Ministries of Health, using strategies that are:
- Community-based, because people living in endemic communities are experts in local realities, and ultimately determine the success of malaria elimination efforts;
- Cross border, because parasites and mosquitoes do not respect national boundaries, and many families live on both sides and cross frequently;
- In partnership, because all are stronger when bringing out the best in each other and walking together as a community of scientists, local leaders, national governments, religious bodies, and multilateral and non-profit organizations; and
- Focused in “last mile” communities, which are often remote and economically poor, but where malaria elimination is essential.
Isdell:Flowers Cross Border Malaria InitiativeIFCBMI 2020 Annual Report
Capacity Strengthening
Health Systems
Indigenous Cases & Importation
Social Science
Vector Control
Vulnerable Populations
Sep 2010
