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VectorWorks

VectorWorks is a five-year (2014-19) global project to increase access to and use of long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) and other proven vector control interventions for malaria prevention. The project is funded by the Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI) under a USAID cooperative agreement. It envisions a world where every family has the ability to protect itself from malaria through vector control technologies that are easy to use, easy to access and easy to afford. VectorWorks has a comprehensive and dynamic approach to empower governments, civil society and the private sector to create sustainable systems to improve access to and appropriate use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) and other vector control technologies. VectorWorks will innovatively expand on the strong and successful work of the NetWorks project to support and strengthen distribution networks, create demand for and promote consistent use of ITNs, and strategically apply and use research findings. These are the necessary next steps down the path to elimination of malaria.

Support the implementation of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), related malaria control programs, and malaria research activities to reduce malaria-related mortality. Develop effective malaria vaccines, new malaria treatment drugs, and targeted operations research. This program area covers components of program design and performance management and learning. This area supports assessment, special studies and analysis, strategic planning, program and project design, program monitoring (to include baseline studies and other data collection needs) and activities that support learning, knowledge transfer and adaptation of projects. Assessment includes the examination of the state of a country or sector context to inform project design but does not include evaluation of USG-funded activities (please see Program Area PO.3 for a definition of evaluation). Special studies or analysis could support strategic or project planning or include research for general learning that is not necessarily related to the performance of USG-funded activities. This program area may also include the preparation of strategic plans and other short-term programming tasks, assessment of the potential of information and communication technologies to enhance performance throughout the program cycle or dissemination of best practices and lessons learned. Evaluation is the systematic collection and analysis of information about the characteristics and outcomes of programs and projects as a basis for judgments, to improve effectiveness and inform decisions about current and future programming. Evaluations are distinct from (a) needs assessments, which are designed to examine country or sector context to inform project design, (b) internal informal reviews of projects and (c) audits (conducted either internally or by an external audience). Such efforts should not be included in PO.3. However, evaluability assessments -- those assessments completed with the purpose of determining whether or not an evaluation of an activity can be conducted -- should be included in PO.3. This program area should include all evaluations designed and funded with foreign assistance funding, including the components of contracts with task orders for evaluations (regardless of the mechanism). It should also include all independent contractors hired solely to produce an evaluation(s); all other contractors (e.g., those whose job responsibilities may include support or management of evaluation but not the production of an evaluation as a deliverable) should be placed in PO.2.

Project ID

US-GOV-1-LR-AID-OAA-A-14-00057

Activity status

3 - Completion

Aid type

C01 - Project-type interventions

% to Liberia

100.00

Organisations

Accountable

U.S. Agency for International Development

Extending

U.S. Agency for International Development

Funding

U.S. Agency for International Development

Implementing

Johns Hopkins University

CRS code	%
Malaria control (12262)	75.01
Multisector aid (43010)	24.99