National Malaria Program Scale-up for Advocacy Based on Impact

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National Malaria Program Scale-up for Advocacy
Based on Impact
23 January 2006
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MACEPA Goal and Scope

• Goal
• To develop the evidence base for the health and
  economic benefit of national malaria prevention
  and control scale up efforts as a tool for
  advocating for national scale up for impact as
  the standard of practice for malaria control in
  sub-Saharan Africa.
• Scope
• Support national policies, plans and programs
• Target resources for rapid program scale up and
  evaluate resulting impact
• Foster regional replication

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Scale-up for Impact

• Program planning for health and economic impact
• Aligning partner inputs within national plan and
  with common performance measures
• Partnering with RBM Secretariat, WB, GFATM, PMI
  at the global level to develop common program
  support approach
• Accelerating scale up process with flexible
  financing and technical support

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Performance Monitoring and Impact Evaluation

• MACEPA team has developed with MERG national
  performance monitoring and impact evaluation
  framework for national plan
• Emphasis on assessment of health and economic
  impact of rapid scale up
• Includes data for decision making and performance
  improvement feedback loops

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Telling the Story
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MACEPAs Advocacy Agenda

• Malarias continuing international profile
  requires success stories at national level
• Sustained and increased investment contingent on
  demonstrated impact on national scale
• Multi-country Scale Up For Impact success is key
• Results of scale up efforts must be well
  documented in both human and scientific terms
• African leaders must be prominent in telling the
  success story
• RBM must build a partnership around success
  stories

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MACEPAAdvocacy Plan Objectives

1. Political leaders, donors, and partner
   organizations in Zambia commit to the national
   malaria strategic plans goalrapid scale up for
   impact.
2. African governments adopt scaling up for impact
   as the standard of practice for malaria control
   in their countries.
3. Donors and key policymakers in developed
   countries adopt scaling up for impact as the
   standard for malaria control in Africa.

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Opportunities for Partnership

• Participate in the development of a consensus
  global advocacy framework
• Align MACEPA inputs within near-term partnership
  implementation plan with targets, timelines and
  performance measures
• Identify strategic points of intersection to jump
  start implementation of joint work plan