Malaria Control, Community Systems Strengthening And Community-Owned Response
Participants at the Malaria Control (MC) and Community Systems Strengthening (CSS) Consultation held in Geneva, 23-25 March 2009, identified the need for additional guidance on CSS and malaria control best practice for all involved in the development, evaluation and eventual implementation of Global Fund malaria proposals and ‘first learning wave’ National Strategy Applications (NSA). In particular, participants felt the need for a greater focus on communities and people themselves as a key component of CSS and as the foundation for effective, sustainable malaria control.
The consensus on best practice that follows was developed during the MC/CSS consultation, with the purpose of complementing the current Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GF) CSS fact sheet and the recently published UNAIDS guide 'Supporting Community Based Responses to AIDS: A Guidance Tool for Including Community Systems Strengthening in Global Fund Proposals' which offers in-depth, practical guidance on developing and writing GF CSS proposals.
As the priority was to provide a tool for Round 9 proposal development, time was short, and the document is not exhaustive. The aim has been to define concepts, cover key proposal development issues, and provide links to further information sources.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- World Vision International, The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, The Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat
- Download:
- Tool
in English, - Contact:
- Ms Caroline Aminata Ndiaye
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- To provide consensus approaches to Community Systems Strengthening and related Guidance for Global Fund proposal development.
- Scope of interventions
- The document covers approaches to strengthening community systems for enhancing malaria control.
- Limitations
- The approaches discussed are largely applied commnity by community and may be challenging difficult to implment in a broad-based approach.
- Output
- Methodologies and approaches that have proven to be effective and represent a consensus among experts.
- Time frame
- Implmentation roughly aligns with global fund grant implementation cycles.
- Potential users
- CCMs, NGOs, FBOs and CBOs.
- Skills required
- Familiarity with community based engagement in traditional African settings.
- Type of software
- User manual available?
- Not applicable
- Type and length of training required
- Not applicable
- Available languages
- English
- Country applications
- Not country sprcific
- Last update and version
- Spring 2009