Commemoration of SADC Malaria Day is held annually on 6th November to create awareness about malaria and mobilise communities to participate in the malaria control programmes. The communities are mobilised through health education to create awareness and are taught to recognise signs and symptoms of malaria to seek immediate treatment when feeling sick, empower communities on home-based treatment and to capacitate communities on the use of personal protective measures to mitigate against the spread of malaria.

Malaria Day in the Americas, observed every November 6,  offers an opportunity for the countries of the Region to encourage participation and galvanize the commitment of various actors and stakeholders in the fight against malaria. Caused by the parasite Plasmodium, malaria is a life-threatening disease that is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito. Every year, around 250 million people are inflicted with malaria, which results in approximately 1 million deaths worldwide.

Malaria Day in the Americas seeks to attain the following objectives:

This year's G20 presidency is Brazil, which will be hosting Health Working Group meetings throughout the year, culminating in a Health Ministers' Meeting on October 31, 2024, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The 2024 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will take place from 25-27 October in Washington, D.C., US.

The World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings are held for two consecutive years at the World Bank Group and IMF headquarters in Washington, D.C., US, and every third year in another member country. Morocco hosted the 2023 Annual Meetings.

As the Group of 7 (G7) Presidency in 2024, Italy will host the G7 Ministerial Meeting on Development in October 2024.

The seven G7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and the US. Represented jointly by the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission, the EU participates in all discussions as a guest.

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will take place in Cali in Columbia, from 21 October to 1 November 2024.

COP 16 will be the first Biodiversity COP since the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at COP 15 in December 2022 in Montreal, Canada.

Leaders of Commonwealth countries meet every two years for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), hosted by different member countries on a rotating basis.

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2024 (CHOGM) will take place in Apia, Samoa from 21-26 October 2024. 

It will be the first CHOGM to be held in a Pacific Small Island Developing State.