Innovative Malaria M&E Research and Surveillance towards Elimination (IMMERSE)

Objectives

IMMERSE is a five- year initiative that aims to provide technical support and guidance to national programmes, to develop methodologies and tools for M&E and surveillance. The project also aims to test and evaluate innovative methods to guide transition from malaria control to pre-elimination and elimination in resistance containment in low transmission settings

This project plans to support malaria surveillance in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) as well as:

• Develop and refine M&E and surveillance tools in order to assess the impact of existing interventions, monitor the short-term malaria burden and transmission trends and inform programmes on when to move from control to elimination strategies
• Monitor artemisinin and artemisinin combination therapy resistance using innovative approaches
• Conduct operational research to assess country-specific feasibility of malaria active case detection interventions, evaluation of innovative delivery mechanisms to target hard to reach populations and point of care diagnostics
• Promote use of strategic available information by local and national policy makers and programme planners to ensure information of strategic importance is disseminated and shared among practitioners in GMS and sub-Saharan Africa, and that best practices are harmonised in the region