Improving Coordination to Strengthen Operationalization of Malaria Surveillance and Routine Data Quality: Landscape Analysis of Current Surveillance-Related Initiatives

Selgün Kayaalpli Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom;

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Hannah Margaret Edwards Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom;

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Ann-Sophie Stratil Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom;

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Julianna Smith Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom;

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Médoune Ndiop Programme National de Lutte Contre le Paludisme, Dakar, Senegal;

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Balthazar Candrinho Programa Nacional de Controlo da Malaria, Maputo, Mozambique;

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Arantxa Roca-Feltrer PATH, Maputo, Mozambique

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Improving the visibility and global coordination of malaria surveillance and data quality improvement initiatives is required to optimize sharing of best practices, tools, and approaches and to promote efficient, effective, and equitable distribution of resources. With these aims in mind, Rollback Malaria’s Surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group established the Surveillance Practice and Data Quality Committee in May 2021. As a priority initiative, the committee conducted a landscape analysis of implementing partners’ (IPs’) malaria surveillance–related projects. A questionnaire that included questions on current project objectives, activities, geographic scope, and lessons learned was distributed among committee members and other IPs. Three years since its inception, information has been submitted regarding 49 projects by 25 IPs and funded by 17 donors. To present and share the landscaping results, an interactive dashboard was published to the Rollback Malaria’s Global Malaria Dashboard website (endmalaria.org) in March 2021. It is the first time that multiple stakeholders have shared such information regarding surveillance projects.

Author Notes

Financial support: Supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, INV-017900; Grantee: Malaria Consortium.

Current contact information: Selgün Kayaalpli, Hannah Margaret Edwards, Ann-Sophie Stratil, and Julianna Smith, Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom, E-mails: selgunka@gmail.com, h.edwards.32@malariaconsortium.org, annsophiestratil@googlemail.com, and julianna.smith1@lshtm.ac.uk. Médoune Ndiop, Programme National de Lutte contre le Paludisme, Dukar, Senegal, E-mail: mnzop5@gmail.com. Balthazar Candrinho, Programa Nacional de Controlo da Malaria, Maputo, Mozambique, E-mail: candrinhobaltazar@gmail.com. Arantxa Roca-Feltrer, PATH, Maputo, Mozambique, E-mail: afeltrer@path.org.

Address correspondence to Hannah Margaret Edwards, Malaria Consortium, The Green House, 244–254 Cambridge Heath Rd., London E2 9DA, United Kingdom. E-mail: h.edwards.32@malariaconsortium.org
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