Webinars

Why take this training? Maintaining high coverage of ITNs for populations in need is important to provide community-level protection from malaria vectors. Mass ITN distribution is a key strategy to achieve this. A comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of key campaign household registration and ITN distribution activities is critical to ensuring the success of mass campaigns. Thus:

• Cluster lot quality assurance sampling (cLQAS) offers an effective method to evaluate ITN coverage and the success of mass distribution campaigns.
• This training will equip participants with the necessary knowledge and tools to conduct high-quality assessments for household registration and ITN distribution using cLQAS.

In this training we:

• Review basic concepts of ITN campaign assessment.
• Define when campaign assessment (in- or end-process) may be needed, including the objectives of data collection and plans for use of data.
• Describe key indicators for household registration assessment and post campaign assessment.
• Describe the approach to design for in- or end-process monitoring surveys, including protocol and questionnaire development, sampling and data analysis.
• Describe the process involved in cLQAS and how to implement.

Support participants to provide assistance to countries to begin planning and budgeting for in- and end-process surveys for ITN mass campaigns.

This webinar was led by the Humanitarian and At-Risk Populations Working Group (HARP)

In this webinar we:

• Brought together experts and practitioners to discuss experiences, successes and lessons learned in adapting and implementing ITN distribution in insecure and crisis-affected contexts.
• Invited the national malaria programmes of Yemen and Haiti to present their experiences and lessons learned on this topic.

In this webinar:

• Partners were gathered from national malaria programmes as well as technical and funding organizations to present recent achievements and ongoing work completed by the CDWG since the beginning of 2024.
• The ongoing work on the revision of the continuous distribution toolkit and planned integration of revised resources in a new version of the ITN Continuous Distribution Toolkit was introduced.
• The Zambia ITN issuance rate report and the ITN quantification website were presented.

In this webinar, the national malaria programme of Mozambique shared the following:

• A demonstration of the functionality of the SALAMA tool which was recently used during the LLIN and SMC campaign in two of Mozambique’s provinces. The demonstration covered the entire process, from data collection in the field to monitoring and evaluation using dashboards.
• Mozambique’s experience with the tool and key considerations for countries looking to implement digitalization in their health campaigns.

In this webinar the national malaria programme of Mozambique shared the following:

• The pilot, implementation, scale up and future thinking for digitalization of ITN and SMC campaigns in Mozambique
• A platform for country exchange and discussion in support of decision-making for ITN campaign digitalization in other countries
• Some of the key facilitators and barriers on the road to full malaria campaign digitalization

In this webinar:

• The national malaria programmes of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo shared their experience of inclusion of IDPs and refugees in malaria interventions.
• The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and UNF shared insights regarding malaria transmission among forcibly displaced populations and inclusion of refugees and IDPs in Global Fund narrative applications and budgets for malaria funding.

In this webinar:

• Findings from the paper How many mosquito nets are needed to maintain universal coverage: an update published in June 2023 were introduced.
• An update on the number of ITNs needed to maintain universal coverage under various scenarios was provided.
• The importance of continuous distribution channels to meet and sustain national ITN targets was highlighted.

In this webinar:

• The geo enabled microplanning process for ITN campaigns was introduced in preparation for the upcoming GF grant making cycle
• Lessons learned from national malaria programmes with experience in geo enabled microplanning were presented.
• The challenges and opportunities around the use of geo spatial data and tools for ITN campaign microplanning were identified.

Topics covered in the webinar:

• Overview and outcomes of Roundtable 1
• Demonstration on new UNF Malaria Displacement Maps
• Launch of case studies + country highlights
• Q&A
• Next steps and future roundtables
• Open discussion on process and pathways forward