Achievements, Challenges, Priorities:

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Achievements, Challenges, Priorities The
Executive Secretary's Progress Report to the 7th
Board meeting of the Roll Back Malaria
Partnership
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Introduction

• Overview of progress since the September 2004
  Board meeting
• Takes into account the recommendations of the
  last Board.
• Will be completed by points requiring decisions
  Working Groups, Board subcommittees, CPAs, MMSS.

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Areas of work Accomplishments, challenges,
priorities

• Policy Strategy
• Partnership Development Networking
• Country Support Development
• Communication Advocacy
• Malaria Medicines and Supplies Service

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Policy and Strategy

• Policy development
• Production of the RBM Partnership's Global
  Strategic Plan (GSP) 20052015 to "Reduce Poverty
  and Save Lives"
• Strategy development
• Meeting of Working Group chairs
• Working Group achievements

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Strategy Development through Working Groups

• Meeting of chairs and vice chairs of all RBM
  Working Groups in November 2004
• Update on achievements and challenges
• Identification of best practices
• Review of Working Group management
• Revision of original terms of reference
• Technical review of GSP 20052015

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Working Group Achievements

• Case Management Working Group
• Prioritization of ACT orders in response to the
  current supply shortage
• ACT and home management of malaria
• Deployment of diagnostics when introducing ACTs

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Working Group Achievements

• Working Group on Insecticide-Treated Nets
• Updating the strategic framework for scaling up
  of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs), including
• Implementing business plan for long-lasting
  insecticidal nets
• Determining best practices in ITN campaign
  approaches (e.g.measles and malaria campaigns)
• Covering newly identified vulnerable populations
• Developing methodologies for evaluating
  performance of different national distribution
  mechanisms for ITNs in reaching target populations

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Working Group Achievements

• Communication Working Group
• The group is finalizing communication guidelines
  for countries to use when addressing behavioural
  barriers to increased use of malaria control
  interventions and when developing local advocacy
  campaigns.

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Working Group Achievements

• Malaria In Pregnancy Working Group
• Intermittent preventive treatment in situations
  of rising clinical resistance to drugs
• Promoted integration of malaria-in-pregnancy
  technical support and advocacy groups into the
  SRNs (EARN,WARN).

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Working Group Achievements

• Financing Working Group
• Addressing operational issues of putting
  Institute of Medicine report recommendations on
  ACT subsidies into practice
• Tracked malaria-control resources from 30 OECD
  donor agencies
• Developing a methodology and guidelines for
  resource tracking at country level using malaria
  sub-accounts within National Health Accounts

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Working Group Achievements
Global Advocacy Task Force

• September 2004 Partners' meeting on global
  advocacy, organized by the RBM Secretariat and
  followed up with informal working meetings
• January 2005 - RBM Board approved the creation of
  the Global Advocacy Task Force to develop
  cohesion and a unified approach for global
  advocacy by all RBM partners.

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Working Group Achievements

• Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group
• (MERG)
• World Malaria Report

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Policy Strategy Specific challenges

• Lack of a Secretariat focal point
• Clear guidance, financial and human support to
  Working Groups

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Policy Strategy Priorities

• Launch events for the Global Strategic Plan
  20052015 and World Malaria Report dissemination
• Adoption by the board of TORs of Working Groups
• Creation of an ad hoc task force to develop
  consensus on issues related to implementation of
  indoor residual spraying and use of DDT and other
  insecticides

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Partnership Development and Networking

• Board (monthly teleconferences)
• Board subcommittees
• RBM Partners' Forum V
• Resource mobilization
• Partnership identity
• Constituency meetings
• Global Fund (MOU- early warning system)

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Partnership Development and Networking Specific
challenges

• Facilitating and convening constituency
  consultations due to lack of financial and human
  resources
• Recruitment of the Africa focal point and
  GFATM/RBM Secretariat focal point
• Assuring the mobilization of adequate resources
  for RBM Partners' Forum V
• Identity issues of the RBM Partnership
  Secretariat

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Partnership Development and NetworkingPriorities

• Preparation of Forum V by Board subcommittee
• Creation of an ad hoc Task Force endorsed by the
  Board to evaluate the process of the Abuja plan
  of action
• Implementation of the Global Fund MOU
• Support constituencies in organizing the rotation
  process with regard to Board membership and
  consultations

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Country Support DevelopmentAchievements

• Strengthening of country partnerships through
  planning and implementation support
• With the World Bank District micro-planning
  (Senegal and Zambia)
• With the GF Identification of bottlenecks
  causing poor implementation performance in Guinea
• With MACEPA, WB, WHO, UNICEF Development of
  rapid scaling-up plans for a number of countries

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Country Support Development

• Deployment of Country Partnership Advisers
  (CPAs)
• Uganda's CPA recruited (October 2004)
• Board review of CPA concept paper
• Meeting of interested partners (December 2004)
  hosted by Exxon Mobil
• Consultation with countries (Zambia, Benin)
• 1 million pledge to be matched

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Country Support Development

• Sub Regional Networks
• Annual planning and review meetings in East,
  West, and Central Africa (November 2004)
  documentation of progress and best practices,
  identification of country support needs
• Annual joint work plans for sub-regional networks
  of East and West Africa (January and February
  2005)
• Reinforcement of sub-regional networks

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Country SupportPriorities

• Establish a permanent Secretariat focal point and
  WARN secretariat
• Support country-level evaluation of achievements
  towards Abuja targets
• Facilitate country-level revision of strategic
  plans into business plans for 2006 to 2010
• Support World Bank booster project development
  and MACEPA
• SARN and CARN fully operational and 1 more SRN to
  be established

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Communication and AdvocacyAchievements

• Global Advocacy
• Global Advocacy Task Force created endorsed
• Political advocacy via UK All-Party Parliamentary
  Malaria Group (including support for first
  report)
• Youssou NDour engaged as special envoy filmed
  60-second TV spot on malaria and MDGs for
  Millennium Campaign to be shown worldwide (launch
  in April at MIP event in Cannes)

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Communication and AdvocacyAchievements

• Events and Publications
• AFRICA LIVE The Roll Back Malaria Concert
• Launch of LLIN technology transfer, Arusha
  (Nov.2004)
• Togo measles malaria campaign documentation
• Malaria press conference at WEF annual meeting in
  Davos (Jan. 2005)
• Organization of and participation in high-level
  events, congressional briefings, official country
  visits, press briefings, etc.
• Sponsored Malaria Prevention and Control An
  Important Responsibility of a Health-Promoting
  School

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AFRICA LIVE - ROLL BACK MALARIA CONCERT, DAKAR
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LAUNCH OF LLINs, ARUSHA
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Communication and AdvocacyPriorities

• Coordinate partners communication efforts
• Including AFRICA LIVE follow-up, Africa Malaria
  Day, World Malaria Report, World Health Assembly,
  GFATM replenishment conferences, G8 meetings, UN
  General Assembly, RBM Partners' Forum V
• Coordinate Global Advocacy Task Force and
  finalize global advocacy strategy
• Coordinate a global campaign to launch the Global
  Strategic Plan 20052015

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Malaria Medicines Supplies Service (MMSS)
Achievements

• Commodities
• For ACTs
• Published ACT road map (including French version)
  and made it available on the MMSS website
• Transferred management of Coartem from WHO/RBM
  to MMSS, including forecasting and coordinating
  relationships with countries for orders
  (technical aspects remain with WHO)
• For ITNs
• Developed and maintained databases on needs,
  financing, procurement, distribution, and
  production capacity

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Malaria Medicines Supplies Service (MMSS)
Achievements

• Supply chain management
• Sources and Prices published in collaboration
  with MSH, PSI, UNICEF and WHO
• Databases on needs, financing, and production
  capacity for ACTs and nets with the support of
  MSH/USAID.
• Financing
• Draft proposal on pool financing and procurement
  mechanisms with WHO and Global Fund

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Malaria Medicines Supplies Service (MMSS)
Challenges

• The staffing situation has to be consolidated and
  sustained for MMSS to be able to deliver on the
  agreed objectives.
• Consolidation of flow of data exchange between
  partners and MMSS in order to generate a
  comprehensive database to deliver accurate
  forecasts
• Information of countries and manufacturers of the
  services available through MMSS

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RBM Partnership Secretariat Financial Situation
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Cash positionat March 21, 2005
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RBM PartnershipSecretariatChallenges

• Human and financial resources
• RBM partnership identity