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The Malaria Communities Program (MCP)

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Children in Tanzania are benefiting from PMI's partnerships with nongovernmental organizations through MCP. Here, in Gumbiro village, children participate with their families in a village-wide malaria education and mobilization activity. Source: J.Wallace/PMI

The Malaria Communities Program (MCP) is a $30 million initiative that was created in December 2006 under PMI to support the efforts of communities and indigenous organizations to combat malaria in Africa. MCP will identify and enable groups to become new partners in the effort to extend the coverage of malaria prevention and control activities to reach a larger proportion of those most affected by malaria, particularly children under age 5 and pregnant women. The objectives of MCP are to:

  • Identify and support potential new partners and networks of community-based organizations uniquely positioned to work at the community level in PMI focus countries
  • Increase local and indigenous capacity to undertake community-based malaria prevention and treatment activities
  • Build local ownership of malaria control for the long-term, in partnership with communities and national malaria control programs (NMCPs)
  • Extend coverage of PMI and NMCP efforts to reach a larger beneficiary population with malaria prevention and control interventions (primary beneficiary groups for PMI are children under age 5 and pregnant women)