VectorLink Zambia Goes the Last Mile for ITN Distribution

This week’s Fist Bump goes out to The PMI VectorLink Zambia team for their ongoing support in the 2020/2021 national ITN mass campaign. During this most recent campaign, VectorLink Zambia provided the NMEP with multi-level technical support, from central level planning to last-mile distribution.

VectorLink Zambia provided the NMEP with support at all levels of the ITN campaign from planning and implementation, to monitoring and evaluation in Luapula, Northern, Muchinga, and Eastern Provinces. Early in the campaign planning stages, the VectorLink team assisted the NMEP with establishing and operationalizing national planning structures and helped the NMEP develop and implement their 2020 Net Mass Campaign Plan of Action. The team helped the NMEP mainstream their COVID-19 guidance for the campaign and procured PPE for 20,000 community-based volunteers. The team also helped design, facilitate, and Tipezenji Ngoma upon receiving 4 LLINs from a CBV in Eastern Provincesupport cascade training for the mass campaign at the national, provincial, and district levels. Coupled with training, the team helped monitor and supervise household registration, door-to-door net distribution, and data entry in DHIS2. Finally, as part of VectorLink Zambia’s support with the last mile net delivery efforts, the team mobilized surge staff and transportation from the IRS campaign to help respond to net distribution challenges in the 4 provinces.

A huge shout out to Peter Kalenga, VectorLink’s ITN Campaign Coordinator, Humphrey Tembo, our Senior M&E Officer, and Oliver Lulembo, our Senior ITN Technical Advisor for the fantastic work they have done over the last 12 months to help this campaign run as smoothly as possible! They’ve gone above and beyond every single day and as a result of their efforts, VectorLink Zambia was able to successfully support the distribution of over 6.8 million ITNs including those procured by PMI and Global Fund.

Congratulations, VL Zambia and all those supporting the efforts on the PMI VectorLink Project!