| Project Detail |
Project outline and objectives
The project will strengthen the management and technical capacity of the primary
health care unit (PHCU) to maintain high coverage and the use of high impact
malaria control interventions. In addition, it will build the health system’s ability to
detect and respond to outbreaks, monitor malaria and use data for decision making.
Country
Ethiopia
Donor
James Percy Foundation
Length of project
March 2019 – February 2021
Partners
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Ministry
of Health
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’
Regional Health Bureau
Strengthening community-based malaria
prevention and surveillance interventions
Reducing malaria morbidity and severity in Ethiopia
MALARIA CONSORTIUM
PROJECT BRIEF
Malaria Consortium will contribute to the sustained reduction
of malaria morbidity and severity within specific geographical
areas of the Boloso Sore and Damot Sore districts in the
Wolaiyita zone of the SNNPR. Specifically, we aim to:
• strengthen integrated vector management to reduce malaria
transmission and prevent malaria outbreaks, including
through community-based indoor residual spraying (IRS),
continuous LLIN distribution and larvicidal control
• improve malaria care-seeking behaviour and households’
practice of preventive behaviours through targeted and
multi-level social and behaviour change approaches
• support malaria surveillance and response.
Activities
Malaria Consortium will:
• support community-based IRS operations by:
· training health extension workers and district health
managers on IRS planning and monitoring
· training district storekeepers and store managers on
warehouse management of IRS equipment
· repairing damaged spray pumps
· conducting post-spray review meetings
• support the distribution of LLINs by:
· conducting rapid assessments of LLIN coverage gaps
· training health extension workers on continuous LLIN
distribution to ensure universal access
· conducting a district-based micro-planning exercise
on LLINs, gathering all local malaria stakeholders to
improve forecasting and distribution
• support larvicidal control and environmental management
by:
· identifying and mapping malaria carrying Anopheles
arabiensis breeding sites
· training the Health Development Army, a network of
female volunteers delivering health education in their
communities, to identify breeding sites
· organising annual malaria campaigns on environmental
management activities, such as draining and filling
communal mosquito breeding sites
· procuring and delivering spraying equipment to the
PHCU
· treating permanent breeding sites with larvicidal
chemicals
• promote sustained behavioural change with regard to the
importance of IRS, proper and consistent use of LLINs, early
healthcare seeking and adherence to treatment through
social and behaviour change interventions, such as radio
messaging, school clubs and community dialogues
• conduct a feasibility study for piloting a ‘positive deviance’
approach — a social and behaviour change approach that
identifies existing model behaviours within a community
that can be amplified by the rest of the community — in
selected areas
• develop and set up a surveillance dashboard at district
health offices to support outbreak detection and response
at the PHCU and community levels
• support the Federal Ministry of Health’s rollout of electronic
community health information systems for malaria
surveillance and use of data for decision making. |
