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Fighting Malaria, Improving Health Across Africa

Africa’s first COVID cases were diagnosed in mid-February 2020. One year on, the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, Comic Relief and GSK will host an online event series exploring how partners across the Africa region have continued to safeguard progress in the fight against malaria despite the global pandemic.

The event will bring together leaders from government, civil society, regional organisations and the private sector to explore what is working in the fight against malaria across Africa.

Request for Proposals (RFP), Consultancy Services to Develop a Malaria Guidebook for Parliamentarians for the RBM Partnership to End Malaria

Under the RBM Partnership’s strategic objective 1, “Keeping malaria high on the political agenda”, the Advocacy and Resource Mobilisation Partner Committee (ARMPC) works towards engaging existing parliamentary groups on malaria, as well as supporting the creation and establishment of new parliamentary interest groups in donor and endemic countries that may be specific to malaria or include other health areas, such as NTDs or vector-borne diseases.

Request for Proposals (RFP), Advancing Solutions to Innovation Challenges in Malaria – Consultancy Services for the RBM Partnership to End Malaria

The RBM Partnership’s Advocacy and Resource Mobilisation Partner Committee (ARMPC) includes a dedicated workstream on Innovation and Access (I&A) which aims to sustain and increase cross-sectoral support for investing in malaria innovations, creating demand for the most effective innovations, and supporting scale-up of innovations for the populations most in need of accessing them.

Call for Proposals (CFP) to translate RBM’s 2021-2025 Strategy Framework into an actionable five-year Strategy Implementation Plan

The RBM Partnership to End Malaria is the global platform for coordinated action against malaria. It mobilizes for action and resources and forges consensus among partners. The Partnership is comprised of more than 500 partners, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions. For more info check the RBM website: www.endmalaria.org.

Best practices in mitigating the effect of COVID-19 on malaria

While the COVID-19 pandemic persists and continues to take a toll on health systems worldwide, it is important to recognize the remarkable efforts made at country, regional, and international levels to mitigate its impact on malaria. The RBM Partnership recently published a new brief with the best practices observed and applied in the past year to mitigate the effect of COVID-19 on malaria, highlighting practices such as extensive advocacy, extraordinary collaboration, as well as timely guidance and technical assistance by malaria partners.