"Consensus on Information in the Roll Back Malaria Partnership"

A UNICEF Perspective

Dr. Kopano Mukelabai
Senior Health Adviser, UNICEF New York

Paper at the Third RBM Global Partners' Meeting
2-3 February 2000, Geneva

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UNICEF’S Focus

1999

  • Consolidating RBM Partnerships at Global, Regional, Country levels
  • Global partners’ meetings: Geneva, Harare
  • Regional/National consensus building meetings
  • Support to 33 countries, acceleration in 11 countries
  • Promote public/private partnerships in scaling up use of ITNs : October ‘99, Dar es Salaam Conference
  • Advocacy - Resources mobilisation, reduction of Tariffs/taxes on mosquito nets/insecticides
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UNICEF’S Focus (contd)

2000

  • Consolidation of Partnership at national and community levels
  • Scaling up use of ITNs
  • Link with IMCI to improve early diagnosis and treatment especially at community level
  • Accelerate use of ITNs in 20 countries
  • Disseminate lessons learnt through the RBM Technical Resource Network on ITNs

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Country Partnership Tracking

Identify all Major Partners/Stakeholders

  • Government Ministries: Health, Education, Finance, Water and Sanitation, Environment, etc.
  • Bilateral/Multilateral donors
  • UN Agencies
  • NGOs
  • Private Sector
  • Professional Associations
  • Research Institutes
  • Community leaders

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Improve Partnership Collaboration

  • Widen composition of RBM National Co-ordinating Committee Joint planning
  • Regular information sharing
  • Harmonization of programme cycles, reporting mechanisms
  • Joint country/field visits, and Monitoring and Evaluation

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Building Successful Collaboration

  • Government led process to ensure ownership
  • Multi sectoral representation in National Co-ordinating Committee
  • Full partner collaboration in developing a mid to long term malaria control plan
  • Careful costing of plan, identify funding gaps

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Building Successful Collaboration (Cont)

  • Long term partner commitment to buy into national plan
  • Joint strategy for implementation of plan
  • Regular consultation to review progress
  • Build in a monitoring and evaluation process

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Challenges to Successful Partnership

  • Ensuring stable partnership given frequent staff changes in government and partner organization
  • Developing simple but effective monitoring tools to gauge partnership collaboration
  • Measuring success of partnership collaboration by successful results
  • Convincing the private sector that continued stake in partnership is advantageous
  • Ensuring sustained collaboration by sectors other than health

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Web Information System

UNICEF’s Documents Available on the Internet:

  • Policy documents: UNICEF Mandate, Mission Statement, Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • Annual Reports: State of the World’s Children, Progress of Nations
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Web Information System (contd)

Websites Being Developed:

  • UNICEF Programme Division website has been developed
  • Includes issues on health, nutrition, education, water and sanitation, gender and development
  • Web page on health and nutrition should be accessed by partners by March 2000
  • Cross linkages being developed with WHO and others
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Guidelines on Website Development

  • A website committee co-ordinates website development
  • Only technical information approved by chiefs of sections is posted on Web Pages
  • Information can be quoted freely provided proper acknowledgement is made
  • Plans to develop cross linkages with WHO and other partners
  • Possibility of sharing UNICEF information with other websites or vice versa
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Access to UNICEF’s Website

  • Programme Division web page will be accessed by partners by March 2000
  • Currently accessed by most UNICEF country offices
  • Access modes set up on one or two work stations in country offices
  • Training is being undertaken to improve computer literacy
  • Connectivity with other partners will be through cross linkages being developed
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Challenges

  • Poor access to e-mail/internet especially by government counterparts
  • Need to regularly update information on the website
  • Regular training of staff to access web information
  • Develop effective cross linkages to avoid duplication of information
  • Regular monitoring to check if website is being accessed by partners
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Monitoring and Evaluation

UNICEF

  • Routinely monitors situation of women and children through country based programmes
  • Mandated by UN General Assembly to monitor Goals of the 1990 World Summit for Children (WSC)
  • Final report on WSC to be presented in Sept. 2001 to UN General Assembly
  • Mid-Term Review of 5-Year Country Programme involves Government, UNICEF and other partners
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Evaluation Instruments

  • Use of Micro Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS)
  • IMCI Monitoring Tool, developed jointly with WHO
  • Situation analysis of women and children every 3-5 years.
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    Information Sharing

    • Surveys planned with Government counterparts and partners
    • Special links with national central statistical units
    • Capacity building of Government and NGO counterparts
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    Challenges

    • Agree on national and district malaria goals/targets to be monitored.
    • Develop appropriate process and outcome indicators
    • Use existing national monitoring tools
    • Simplify data collection and analysis to enable collection and use at community levels
    • Ensure results are fed back into re-assessment, analysis and re-programming
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