Malaria Indicator Survey (MIS) Toolkit
MIS Guidance Materials and MIS Training Workshop
The materials in this toolkit were developed by the Roll Back Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (RBM-MERG), with contributions from the following partners: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Swiss Tropical Institute; Johns Hopkins University; The World Bank; The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Macro International; Malaria Consortium; Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa (MACEPA), a programme at PATH; Malaria in Pregnancy Consortium Secretariat; MEASURE Evaluation, World Health Organization (WHO); WHO Regional Office for Africa; RBM Partnership Secretariat, Tulane University, UNICEF; and United States Agency for International Development/President’s Malaria Initiative. This toolkit also largely benefited from national programmes in countries having conducted Malaria Indicator Surveys.
The documents assembled here provide guidance, templates, and models for the different steps of conducting such surveys: planning, implementation, data analysis and reporting, dissemination, and informed decision-making. The intended audience includes any institution involved in conducting malaria indicator surveys, such as national malaria control programs, central statistics agencies/offices, partners, and donors.
View/Download MIS Guidance Materials
View/download MIS Training Workshop
A Guide to Malaria Indicator Surveys (Draft)
in English, in French
The document entitled "A Guide to Malaria Indicator Surveys" will help guide users through the different materials available. MIS training workshops organized by RBM-MERG provide additional support, and presentations given at previous workshops are available as part of the toolkit.
- Tool Designer Organization:
- RBM Partnership
- Contact:
- Dr Hana Bilak
Summary of main features
- Purpose
- Provide guidance, templates and models to support planning and implementation of malaria indicator surveys, as well as data analysis and reporting and dissemination/use of results
- Scope of interventions
- Malaria indicator surveys
- Limitations
- Output
- Information on key malaria indicators, as recommended by RBM-MERG, to help guide decision-making processes and disseminate results for advocacy and resource mobilization
- Time-frame
- Programs should plan on conducting an MIS every two years
- Potential users
- Program managers, M&E staff, central statistics agencies/offices, partners, and donors
- Skills required
- No particular skills are required, apart from programmatic considerations, experience in M&E, and statistics for some of the documents.
- Type of software
- Word, Excel, Adobe PDF, and PowerPoint
- User manual available?
- Yes (in English and French)
- Type and length of training required
- No particular training is required per se to use the materials. The RBM-MERG organizes 4-day MIS training workshops during which the different documents are referred to
- Available languages
- English and French
- Country applications
- Many of these materials have been used in countries that have already conducted Malaria Indicator Surveys: Zambia, Senegal, Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe
- Last update and version
- October 2008