Community Led-Monitoring: A guide for key malaria programs for civil society organisations

Community Led-Monitoring: A guide for key malaria programs for civil society organisations

Community led-monitoring is based on the principle that “Nothing that is done for us should be done without us”. The combination of this principle with evidence shows that community-led monitoring is an important driver of improved service delivery and health outcomes that needs to be re-emphasized. Thus, the community must participate at all stages of the fight against malaria. This guide will be useful to CSOs working in the field of malaria in the conduct of community-led monitoring of activities efficiently and allow these CSOs to know their role and responsibilities in this exercise at each key stage. This guide will also provide CSOs and communities affected by malaria with templates of monitoring tools adapted to key malaria programs.

This document aims to encourage the inclusion of community-led monitoring approach particularly to malaria funded programs in Global Fund grants to complement national Malaria monitoring systems, identify barriers to improved service delivery, and respond to community preferences regarding access, affordability, quality, and acceptability of services.

This guide is driven by the following specific objectives:

• To provide an understanding of the definition, characteristics, and importance of Community-Led Monitoring;
• To enable mastery of the processes of data collection and data analysis;
• To enhance mastery of data quality assurance and the processes of using up-to-date information to improve decision-making;
• To improve understanding of the steps to implement Community-Led Monitoring in communities, with the community as the leader.