Scaling Up!

This week’s Fist Bump Friday goes to VL Rwanda for their success in implementing insecticide serialization at scale across all operations sites in a brand new district in their recent IRS campaign. During the campaign, VL Rwanda also field-tested digital scanning of serialized insecticide to assist storekeepers with necessary tracking of daily insecticide movement at four of the fourteen sites in Ngoma District. While digital scanning was initially piloted in Malawi in 2019, this is the first country to expand the practice beyond one site. As the project rolls out insecticide serialization across all countries to strengthen our insecticide supply chains at their ‘last links’ with storekeepers, team leaders and spray operators, these successes serve as an example of sound implementation of new initiatives. While not every country program will be testing digital scanning in 2020, these pilots feed into our learning curve and further build our project’s reputation for innovation, insecticide accountability, and continuous improvement.

Although Eugene Kiti arrived as VL Rwanda COP just weeks before the campaign kick-off, the team successfully sprayed 99% of structures in the districts, covering more than 92,700 structures, which was beyond their target. The campaign protected approximately 373,500 people or 97% of the district’s population. This was the first year VL sprayed Ngoma District, and VL Rwanda’s second round of campaigns, having sprayed two districts in Sept-Oct 2019.

A huge congratulations to the whole VL Rwanda team and a special kudos to Eugene as this was his 26^th IRS campaign.

Great job!