Overview

The Support to National Malaria Programme (SuNMaP) is the largest malaria control project ever funded by DFID. Led by the Malaria Consortium, the five-year project aims to increase access to, and coverage of, preventive and curative malaria control interventions in at least 6 Nigerian states, starting in Anambra, Kano, Lagos, Katsina, Niger and Ogun. SuNMaP harmonizes donor efforts and funding agencies around agreed-upon national policies and plans for malaria control, and will strengthen the National Malaria Control Program to provide crucial coordination. The program’s approach is focused on reaching the poor and vulnerable with interventions such as long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs, capacity development of the public sector, and strengthening public-private partnerships. CCP’s role is to increase community awareness and demand for effective malaria treatment and prevention.

Accomplishments

• Distributed more than two million LLINs (of six million total) in Kano and Anambra States during the first stages of Nigeria’s rolling universal coverage campaign, and played a key role in the planning and execution along with USAID and World Bank projects.

• Supporting the ACSM subcommittee of the ATM Taskforce, developed media (radio spots and campaign song) and print materials for LLIN campaigns, to boost participation, hanging and use of nets, prompt treatment seeking, and IPT uptake.

• Conducted literature review and mapping of existing strategies and development of state-specific communication strategies.

• Conducted qualitative research in six states with multiple target groups to identify barriers and normative beliefs around use of LLINs, treatment seeking behavior, and uptake of intermittent presumptive treatment of pregnant women (IPTp).

• Developed communication training modules for health agents, clinicians, patent medicine vendors, and role model mothers.