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In May 2018, the WHO Global Malaria Programme (GMP) launched an extensive review of the Organization’s processes for developing and disseminating policy guidance on malaria. Our overall objective is to deliver timely, high quality guidance to malaria-endemic countries through processes that are more transparent, consistent, efficient and predictable.
This initiative gathered input from a broad range of stakeholders, seeking to better understand the needs and perceived bottlenecks. A number of areas requiring improvement were identified, such as a perceived lack of transparency, inconsistencies in review standards, and lengthy timelines. With support and input from the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC), GMP’s highest level advisory body, several recommendations were developed to address the issues identified.
At the beginning of 2019, the Global Malaria Programme launched internal workstreams to lead the implementation of the recommendations, and we are now ready to start sharing some of the changes that are being made to improve our systems. This effort is a work in progress.
As a first step, the Global Malaria Programme is increasing the level of transparency around our policy-setting process with the launch of this new, dedicated section of our website. We are also developing a new, user friendly section on the website to display our policy guidance.