MDG monitoring

Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG)

The Roll Back Malaria Initiative has formed a Malaria Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group (MERG), which is co-chaired by UNICEF and PATH/MACEPA (the Malaria Control and Evaluation Partnership in Africa of the international non-profit organization PATH). The primary purpose of the Malaria MERG is to coordinate and harmonize monitoring activities among the relevant UN organizations, to address specific technical issues, produce state-of-the-art measurement tools, advocate for monitoring activities and enhance support for capacity-building at country level.

Minutes of the meetings and other details about the Malaria MERG, as well as various MERG outputs, are available on http://www.rbm.who.int/

As part of their reporting function, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have published the World Malaria Report 2005 and the Africa Malaria Report 2003. In addition, UNICEF on behalf of the RBM Partnership published Malaria and Children: Progress in Intervention Coverage (2007), as well as an updated summary of this report (2009). WHO produced the World Malaria Report 2008.