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k-9859 / USAID Digital Development
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | In an effort to align with the USAID Digital Strategy and recognize USAID Missions, Bureaus and partners that are empowering countries in a digital age, USAID launched the 2022 Digital Development Awards (the Digis), the fourth round of these awards. The Digis recognize and celebrate USAID-funded projects and activities that use digital technology to sustain open, secure, and inclusive digital ecosystems in order to improve measurable development and humanitarian-assistance outcomes. After receiving nearly 200 applications from USAID Missions around the world, five winners were selected for the 2022 Digital Development Awards, including the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) VectorLink, funded by USAID/Zambia and implemented by Abt Associates.Certain malaria control interventions are proven to reduce transmission, particularly the distribution of insecticide treated bed nets (ITN) and indoor residual spraying (IRS), where insecticide that is safe for humans is sprayed on the walls and ceilings of homes to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Successful planning of these interventions is tied closely to accurately estimating the population and number of homes in a particular area, which preferably are then used to create a map that helps inform resource allocation and monitor the intervention’s coverage post-intervention.The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) VectorLink Project supports national governments in 25 countries to plan and implement proven, life-saving vector control programs with the overall goal of reducing malaria burden. In 2021-2022, PMI VectorLink Zambia worked with subcontractor Akros and the Georeferenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) project to first update maps used by local government officials and then plan IRS and ITN campaigns to the most granular level yet: the health facility catchment level. To start, the team engaged health facility staff across all 116 districts in Zambia to verify the boundaries of the area they serve. Satellite images of each health facility catchment area (HFCA) were then used to estimate the population. Akros provided both digital and printed maps, and an IRS planning template, to each district and then trained the district teams on how to use them.Jerry Maambo, a Malaria Elimination Officer, has helped spearhead the Indoor Residual Campaign being enforced by PMI VectorLink Zambia in the Katete District. Using the digitized, detailed maps from Akros, Jerry and his team are better able to plot Malaria outbreaks and plan protective efforts for sprayers to disinfect houses in the district. Additionally, the sprayers are key partners in responding to community questions and concerns about the spraying campaigns. Jerry shares that, “We engage the local traditional leadership and have community dialogue meetings, and eventually the community was willing to have their houses sprayed.”The maps updated by VectorLink, coupled with support during the planning processes, strengthened the National Malaria Elimination Program’s (NMEP) capacity to use the latest data to operationalize their strategy and ultimate goal of covering 100 percent of the population with at least one malaria prevention program. The result has led to increased coverage of malaria control campaigns in hard-to-reach areas across Zambia. With the new microplanning maps, the Zambia NMEP now has a deeper level of insight into the geographic distribution of remote communities and better population estimates down to the village level.Photo Credit: Chipema Chinyama for USAID |
| 撮影日 | 2008-12-11 02:41:31 |
| 撮影者 | USAID Digital Development |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 5D Mark II , Canon |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/3.5 |
| 焦点距離 | 70 mm |