Empowering Action: The Geneva Learning Foundation and RBM Partnership to End Malaria Surface Local Knowledge to Inform Malaria Interventions
The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF)
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Geneva, Switzerland – 12 November 2024 – The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with RBM Partnership to End Malaria (RBM), focusing on integrating insights from community-based health workers into the global effort to eliminate malaria.? ?
Malaria continues to be a significant global health issue, particularly affecting communities in Africa and Asia. While progress has been made, the journey towards elimination is still fraught with challenges, as health systems remain under strain. This partnership will prioritize on gathering and amplifying the voices of local health workers who are actively engaged in assessing the various factors influencing malaria transmission and response within their communities.?
Through TGLF’s flagship initiative, Teach to Reach, the partnership will engage with community-based health workers, offering a platform to share real-world insights and best practices for combating malaria. As part of this peer-learning network of over 60,000 health professionals across more than 80 countries—80% of whom work at the district and facility level—RBM aims to ensure that malaria control efforts are shaped by those who understand the challenges firsthand.
Teach to Reach 11, set for December 5-6, 2024, will shine a spotlight on local health workers operating in regions where malaria transmission is most intense. The insights gathered in the lead-up to the event will inform the agenda as well as the focus of a Malaria Special Event set for December 10, 2024 - helping to ensure that global malaria elimination strategies are responsive to the realities on the ground and reflect the experiences of those on the frontlines.
Michael Adelunle Charles, CEO of RBM Partnership to End Malaria emphasized:
"To end malaria, we must empower the people closest to the problem—health workers in affected communities. This partnership with TGLF allows us to listen to and learn from those on the frontlines of malaria control, ensuring that their voices drive our global strategies and actions toward elimination."
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Reda Sadki, Executive Director of The Geneva Learning Foundation added:
“We need new ways to learn and lead.? Health worker leadership is critical to an integrated view of malaria response by and for local communities. By working directly with national malaria programs and country teams that are part of the RBM Partnership to End Malaria, we can help ensure that health workers' knowledge and leadership shape effective, equitable, and locally-led action to eliminate this disease.”
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For more information or to participate in Teach to Reach 11, please visit: https://www.learning.foundation/teachtoreach
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For more information and to participate in the Malaria Special Event on December 10, 2024, please visit: https://www.learning.foundation/malaria.
Contact:
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About The Geneva Learning Foundation The Geneva Learning Foundation (TGLF) is a Swiss non-governmental organization that specializes in using learning science to build large-scale peer networks, focusing on critical issues such as health, development, and humanitarian crises. Through innovative digital learning experiences, the foundation empowers individuals and organizations to develop solutions to complex challenges, from climate change to conflict-related health risks. TGLF’s programs are grounded in research and focus on catalyzing collective capacity for transformation through global-local collaboration.
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About RBM Partnership to End Malaria The RBM Partnership to End Malaria is the largest global platform for coordinated action against malaria. Originally established as Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership in 1998, it mobilizes for action and resources and forges consensus among partners. The Partnership comprises more than 500 partners, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions.?The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Geneva, Switzerland, hosts the RBM Partnership Secretariat.?
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