About PMI REACH Malaria

PMI REACH Malaria

The US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Reaching Every At-Risk Community and Household with Malaria Services (REACH Malaria) project is a five-year contract led by PATH, which was awarded on September 29, 2023, and will end on September 28, 2028. The purpose of this project is to support PMI and national malaria programs to accelerate the planning, delivering, and monitoring of facility- and community-based malaria services and drug-based prevention activities with the overall goal of reducing malaria morbidity and mortality.

PMI REACH Malaria builds on 15 years of PMI investment in the Improving Malaria Diagnostics (IMaD) project, MalariaCare, and PMI Impact Malaria. Under PMI REACH Malaria, we will transition and leverage existing tools and systems and synthesize key lessons learned from these past projects. At the same time, we will expand upon this groundwork by incorporating innovative implementation approaches, such as virtual communities of practice (vCOPs), and tailoring and targeting interventions and localization with emerging interventions such as the recently approved malaria vaccine and WHO-recommended drug-based prevention interventions. These interventions will support the project in achieving and maintaining scale while also improving efficiency.

The purpose of PMI REACH Malaria is to support PMI and national malaria programs to accelerate the planning, delivery, and monitoring of facility and community-based malaria services and drug-based prevention activities with the overall goal of reducing malaria morbidity and mortality and accelerating progress toward elimination. Continuous monitoring, evaluation, and learning—and adapting our program design and implementation based on this learning—is embedded with PMI REACH Malaria’s approach to achieving the project objectives and impact. 

The project will generate and use evidence to inform adaptive learning and management and achieve project goals guided by three key principles: 

1. Leveraging routine data and existing measurement frameworks and tools to enable more sustainable monitoring and learning practices
2. Generating evidence that is fit-for-purpose and timely 
3. Actively engaging project technical teams and stakeholders in the M&E process and translation of evidence into programmatic decision-making. 

The project will build on lessons learned during PMI Impact Malaria and will utilize and strengthen existing country systems for implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. The PMI REACH Malaria M&E Plan goes beyond monitoring activity implementation, to include tracking the expansion of the reach of malaria service delivery and prevention services, equity in the services delivered, and the transition of service delivery to local organizations.