Roll Back Malaria Partnership
The past
fifteen years have seen tremendous gains ...
Roll Back Malaria Partnership
The past
fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of disease and
progressing towards malaria elimination. Between 2000 and 2015, global malaria
incidence fell by 37 percent and mortality rates by 60 percent. Over 6.2 million deaths were averted,
primarily among children less than five years of age. Expansions in financing,
strong political commitments, novel diagnostic and preventative measures, and
multi-sectoral co-ordination have facilitated this progress. Since 1998, the
Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM) has been central to the global fight
against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing these unprecedented
resources and scaled up innovative interventions and to put the world on to a
path of eliminating malaria.
Despite these
gains, malaria still poses a significant threat to public health and
sustainable development. In 2015, there were an estimated 214 million cases.
Malaria continues to affect the poorest and most marginalized disproportionately,
and restricts human development and poverty alleviation. As much as 80 percent
of malaria deaths occur in just fifteen countries, primarily in Africa.
RBM's Vision is of a world free from the burden of malaria.
The
Country Regional Support Partners Committee of Roll Back Malaria is seeking
consultants with broad experience in planning of mass LLIN distribution
campaigns to provide technical assistance to countries engaged in the mass
distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide Nets (LLINs). Technical assistance providers should be in a
position to respond to country requests for support in the areas of
implementation, logistics, behavior change communications, and monitoring and
evaluation.
The scope of work for
a specific consultancy assignment will vary according to the stage of a
campaign’s planning and implementation.
The following list represents the types of tasks that may be needed to
be undertaken, dependent upon the circumstance of each campaign