The purpose of the ITN Allocation Strategies website is to support the strategy design of ITN mass distribution campaigns. A key decision in mass campaign planning is the choice of ITN allocation strategy.
Many mass campaigns historically have used an allocation of 1 ITN for every 2 people in a household, rounding up. This strategy corresponds to a quantification factor of 1.8. While “1 ITN for every 2 people, rounding up” has been a common allocation strategy, NMPs may wish to examine alternative strategies in response to available resources and revised ITN channel mixes.
The website presents outputs that national malaria programmes and their partners can use to assess the trade-offs between the number of ITNs needed and expected levels of population ITN access for different allocation strategies. Users can enter their own population estimates and generate custom ITN quantifications based on applying different allocation strategies in different areas. Results are available for national and sub-national levels for malaria-endemic countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Quantification factors for each ITN allocation are also presented, so calculations can easily be repeated offline.
This work is supported by the Alliance for Malaria Prevention with funding from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.