Project Information
| Project Name: | Malaria Intervention Project (MALIP) |
| Project Description: | |
| In March 1998, CARE Tanzania completed its Urban Livelihood Security Assessment (ULSA) for Dar Es Salaam (DSM), covering low-income households in 12 sites in six wards of DSM. In the domain of health, the ULSA found that febrile illnesses (most probably malaria) were extremely common among children in all the study sites. Forty-nine per cent of the 559 index children had experienced a fever episode during the two weeks before the interviews. Furthermore, the majority of the local people identified 'health' (i.e., high prevalence of disease) and 'health services' (i.e., inadequate access of affordable health services) as 'major problems' which affected their everyday lives. The ULSA recommended a strategy that would include a range of interventions aimed at improving access and quality of both preventive and curative medical care for the urban poor, and also bringing about a reduction in the prevalence of diseases of public health significance, specifically malaria.
Based on the results of the ULSA, CARE Tanzania, in its Long Range Strategic Plan developed in March, 1998, decided to emphasize on Health in its programming efforts for DSM. Within the health sector, Malaria emerged as the priority concern because of its enormous impact on the lives of the people of DSM, especially the disadvantaged. As a first step in its programming efforts, CARE Tanzania developed this three-year Malaria Intervention Project (MALIP) in consultation with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) of the Ministry of Health. The ideas and strategy used in designing the project have been conceived from a detailed literature review, discussions with key persons in DSM, field visits, focus group discussions, and informal discussions with community people. The project strategy is grounded in the framework outlined by WHO in its global strategy for malaria control (WHO 1993), and the Tanzanian government's National Malaria Control Program (NMCP 1994), and inputs received from members of different communities residing in DSM. The total budget for this three-year project is US $ 505,527.00. A total of US $ 248,527.00provided by the Africa Fund to help position CARE International in Tanzania as a leader in malaria and urban health programming and assist the organization in securing further funding from other donors in long run. The remaining sum of $257,000 is provided by CIDA through CARE IMARA, a CIDA funded project. | |
| Country: | Tanzania, United Republic (View Country Profile) |
| Sector: | Integrated and Other Health |
| Type: | Development |
| Project Number: | TZA027 |
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