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South Africa's National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP): case study
Home Grown School Feeding, 2013The National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa is a large government sponsored programme reaching over 8 million learners in primary and secondary schools. The emphasis of the programme is on the provision of the daily balanced and diverse cooked meal, with nutrition education and sustainable food production being the other two pillars of the programme.DocumentPerceptions of health stakeholders on task shifting and motivation of community health workers in different socio demographic contexts in Kenya (nomadic, peri-urban and rural agrarian)
2014The shortage of health professionals in low income countries is recognized as a crisis. Community health workers are part of a “task-shift” strategy to address this crisis. Task shifting in this paper refers to the delegation of tasks from health professionals to lay, trained volunteers.DocumentImplementing integrated community case management: stakeholder experiences and lessons learned in three African countries
Malaria Consortium, 2014Integrated community case management (iCCM) of malaria, pneumoniaand diarrhoea at the community level has been a growing focus of community healthcare delivery across sub-Saharan Africa over the last few years, as well as in Malaria Consortium’s Africa regional programme.DocumentDeveloping and implementing training materials for integrated community case management in South Sudan
Malaria Consortium, 2012In South Sudan, ICCM – or integrated community case management – is carried out by trained community volunteers called community drug distributors (CDDs) or community based distributors.DocumentBuilding capacity for universal coverage: malaria control in Nigeria
Malaria Consortium, 2012SunMaP works with the Nigerian National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) to harmonise donor efforts around agreed national strategies and plans for malaria control.The role of SunMaP is to provide the necessary technical expertise and experience for a comprehensive fight against malaria.DocumentCommunity dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk
Malaria Consortium, 2012Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is increasingly being used across sub-Saharan Africa to supplement the gaps in basic healthcare provision.DocumentDeveloping intervention strategies: innovations to improve community health worker motivation and performance
Malaria Consortium, 2012During the last decade child mortality has reduced significantly in a number of African countries, largely due to the scale up of appropriate management of diarrhoea, pneumonia and malaria, three leading causes of death among young children.DocumentInsecticide treated nets: the role of the commercial sector - case study of three countries in sub-Sahara Africa
Malaria Consortium, 2012Studies in the 1980s and after showed the value of Insecticide Treated Nets (ITNs) in the prevention of malaria. This learning paper takes a detailed look at the approaches of direct support to the commercial (ITN) market that were implemented by Malaria Consortium and its partners as part of mixed models of malaria prevention in three sub-Sahara African countries.DocumentIntegrating severe acute malnutrition into the management of childhood diseases at community level in South Sudan
Malaria Consortium, 2013In an extremely resource-limited setting such as South Sudan, there is a double challenge: a high burden of childhood disease and death, coupled with limited healthcare services to treat these diseases. There is a clear association between under-nutrition and the leading diseases (malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia) causing deaths in children under five.DocumentMoving towards malaria elimination: developing innovative tools for malaria surveillance in Cambodia
Malaria Consortium, 2013In collaboration with the national malaria control programme in Cambodia (CNM), Malaria Consortium developed a diverse set of tools to improve malaria surveillance and to provide the information needed by national and district staff to manage the national malaria programme, respond to malaria outbreaks and individual cases and monitor in real-time the levels of critical malaria supplies at healPages