Step 7: Track Your Progress

Section Progress:

Tracking the progress of your malaria activities is important for meeting goals and understanding lessons learned. It also allows you to change and adapt malaria activities to fit community needs better and shifting environments. Tracking the progress of your malaria activities can:

  • Help community partners communicate more effectively.
  • Provide support to community advocates and local staff.
  • Identify problems and how to solve them.
  • Help organizations understand and talk about the impact of their work.

Ongoing assessment of your activities and feedback from partners and community members will help make sure that your activities are effective, meet the community’s needs, and continuously be developed and improved.

Health, Population, and Nutrition Office Director, Daniele Nyirandutiye, provides a new insecticide-treated net to a young mother. Photo Credit: USAID/Madagascar

Start by listing each of your malaria activities. Think about how often each of these activities will be taking place. Then, write down the goals for each of these activities. Thinking about your short- and long-term goals may help. Next, determine indicators for each goal to track your accomplishments.

Activities, Goals, and Indicators Worksheet Example:

Example Malaria Activity

Frequency of Activities

Example Goals

Example Indicators

Home visits to constituents’ homes

Visit each household once a month

Short-Term Goals:

  • Carry out 10 home visits per week

  • Develop home visit materials

  • Share home visit materials with community health workers

Long-Term Goals:

  • 90% of households report every member slept under an ITN the previous night

Number of home visits carried out per month 

Number of malaria home visit materials developed

 

Number of malaria materials shared with community health workers

 

Proportion of households visited that report every household member slept under an ITN the previous night

Community dialogues about signs and symptoms of malaria with women’s group

One-time event

Short-Term Goals:

  • Coordinate malaria meeting with women’s group

  • Share malaria materials with women's group

Long-Term Goal:

  • 80% of community members can name three symptoms of malaria

Number of meetings with women’s group 

Number of malaria materials developed

 

Number of malaria materials shared with women’s group

 

Proportion of community members who can list at least three malaria symptoms

Encouraging and emphasizing net use for every member of the household during after school children’s group

One meeting at the start of each malaria transmission season

Short-Term Goal:

  • Coordinate meeting with local school’s after school children’s group

  • Develop materials for malaria after school session for children

  • Share materials with after school caregivers and teachers

Long-Term Goal:

  • 90% of households report every member slept under an ITN the previous night

Number of meetings with after school children’s group 

Number of malaria materials for children developed

Number of malaria materials shared with caretakers and teachers

Number of meetings with caregivers and teachers about malaria session

Proportion of households visited that report every household member slept under an ITN the previous night

Blank Activities Goals Indicators Worksheet: Word – (EN | FR | PT )

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