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Zambia has successfully developed a national strategic institutional
framework for rolling back malaria through a highly consultative
inception process involving private and public sectors, NGOs, and
inter-country and regional consultation processes. Zambia is already
implementing some of the planned RBM and strategic activities. And
various NGOs are involved in area of RBM including community
mobilization, home-based care for the sick, and provision and
distribution of bed nets and insecticide for treatment of bed nets.
Zambia Malaria Foundation (ZMF) is an umbrella organization; through
this mechanism, it is envisaged that we will expand the reach and
sustainability of NGO partnerships and link them to ongoing
community-based activities in HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood, and
Integrated Maternal and Child Illness (IMCI).
Goal
The goal of Zambia Malaria Foundation is to support and complement
the efforts of the National Malaria Control Programme by improving
communication and coordination between the National Malaria Control
Center, community–based organizations, faith-based organisations,
volunteer groups, community health and development organisations, and
the private sector.
The Zambia Malaria
Foundation also coordinates the
Equity Programme for ITN distribution.
Objectives
1. Improve coordination and communication between the National
Malaria Control Center (NMCC) and NGOs, church-affiliated
organizations, volunteer groups, and community health and development
organizations in Zambia. The content of this coordination and
communication includes the following three technical interventions:
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Improved disease recognition by the caretaker and
prompt, appropriate treatment seeking; improved access to
appropriate anti-malarial drugs and effective case management;
support system for drug logistics, diagnostics, and the overall
drug information system.
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Scaling up of vector control for effective malaria
prevention including targeted rural ITN distribution and the
development of a large-scale commercial ITN market; improve systems
and campaigns for re-treatment of existing nets; provide technical
guidance to ensure sound, safe, effective, and appropriate use of
vector control strategies, including indoor residual spraying, as
it may be carried out by district municipal counsel and private
company spray teams.
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Support and advocate for the country-wide introduction
of a packet of interventions to reduce the burden of malaria during
pregnancy, including Intermittent Presumptive Treatment (IPT) with
sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (Fansidar®) monthly during the second and
third trimester, improved access to ITNs, and measures to improve
nutrition and reduce anaemia. Focus will be on both antenatal
clinics and Safe Motherhood Programmes, and on school-age
reproductive health activities.
2. In the above three technical interventions, provide a
mechanism for support to the national monitoring and evaluation
efforts.
3. In the above three technical areas, provide a forum for
communicating operations research activities and “best practices”
experiences of the community-based organizations, which can in turn
help inform national policy.
Beneficiaries
The Foundation’s work benefits a broad range of NGOs, CBOs, and FBOs
with whom it makes contact, by linking them effectively to the
efforts of the NMCC. Likewise the NMCC benefits through the efforts
of these community-based groups and through learning from the NGOs
“best practices” for implementing such programmes.
The ZMF Logo
The three squares represent the three major entities involved in
malaria prevention in Zambia; the Government, the Civil Society Partners, and
Private Sector. The mosquito represents our common enemy, and
the color blue represents water, the mosquito's breeding ground.
Major Functions and Responsibilities of
the Zambia Malaria Foundation
The Foundation, under the strategic guidance of the Board, will
Develop mechanisms and opportunities that facilitate better
coordination and collaboration between NGOs, DHMTs, and the NMCP.
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Identify and facilitate opportunities to access
technical and financial resources for NGOs involved with malaria.
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Create systems to facilitate timely flow of
information to relevant stakeholders.
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Develop links with the Zambia RBM Partnership.
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Become a voice for NGO involvement in the RBM
Partnership.
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Identify opportunities to link malaria-related
activities with ongoing NGO work on development and health,
especially HIV/AIDS, safe motherhood, education and IMCI.
Mechanisms include:
1.Network building
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Recruitment of partners for network expansion at the
national and district levels
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Mapping of organizations and activities
2.Information sharing and capacity building
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Distribution network circulating relevant materials
from NMCP, through email, and paper communication channels
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Work with NMCP to develop brochures, job aids
communication, and training materials
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Distribute technical and programmatic materials that
may become available through national, regional, and global RBM
partners
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Facilitate capacity-building efforts among NGOs and
CBOs by identifying and linking them to technical and management
training opportunities that may exist through the NMCP and other
RBM partners
3.Operations research, monitoring/evaluation, and sharing of “best
practices”
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Identification of resources for financial and
technical support for operations research, and monitoring and
evaluation activities
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Link NGOs in order to support national information
systems including facility and population-based monitoring and
special adverse drug reaction monitoring
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Provide a forum for sharing information, “best
practices”, and results of operations research activities, and
monitoring and evaluation activities across organizations and with
the NMCP
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Support implementation of various malaria studies and
share research findings
4.Advocacy and participation in the national and global dialogue on
malaria, health and development.
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Represent NGOs and CBOs in strategic national forums
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Participate, as an equal, with other national RBM
partners in strategic dialogue and planning
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Act as a clearing-house for NGO malaria activities in
Zambia
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Be the primary link and two-way conduit of information
between NGOs and the NMCP
Host NGO for the Foundation
At the 2002 Ndola Fresh Air Workshop, it was proposed that World
Vision Zambia act as the host NGO for this Secretariat for three
reasons. First and foremost, World Vision has the financial and
administrative mechanisms to link with the CORE Group and USAID to
ensure smooth financial transfer and accounting procedures. Second,
World Vision International is integrally involved with RBM and the
CORE Group both on a global level and on a national level in a number
of other countries. Third, World Vision Zambia was the host agency
for the Fresh Air Workshop and has shown the commitment and
dedication of resources necessary to push coordination efforts
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