Core Activities

At the national level, the core activities of the Quick Impact Initiative aim at strengthening the capacity of national disease control programs for rapid scaling-up and include:

• Assist countries in developing comprehensive plans for malaria and neglected tropical diseases and grant proposals, linked with national MDG-based development strategies.
• Assist countries in developing business plans for activities supported by funding agents, including the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM).
• Work with national and international partners to break national bottlenecks to the disbursement of funds and scaling-up of activities already supported by funding agents. These bottlenecks, in the case of malaria, may include GFTAM funds that require clarification, approved funds pending the signing of contract between principal recipient and the GFATM and procurement of key anti-malarial commodities to initiate funded activities.
• Define process and impact indicators for assessing implementation of national programs and impact of interventions.

At the international level, the core activities of the Quick Impact Initiative aim to address system-wide bottlenecks and country-level work and partnerships on malaria and neglected tropical diseases:

• Establish and/or strengthen the network of national program managers to facilitate exchange in resolving various bottlenecks to scaling-up of diseases control activities.
• Work with countries, funding agents, and policymakers to establish better approaches to securing adequate and timely supply of high-quality commodities at lowest costs. One prominent approach, which has received strong support from endemic countries and key stakeholders at the Stockholm meeting, is the establishment of a more effective pooled procurement mechanism.  

• Work with in-country public health experts and national program managers to resolve bottleneck situations in various countries, as needed.