The Kano State Ministry of Health has commenced the development of the 2027 Local Government Area (LGA) Malaria Work Plan as part of efforts to strengthen evidence-based planning and improve malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment across the state.
The three-day strategic workshop, held in Kaduna State, brought together 44 Primary Health Care Coordinators, 44 Monitoring and Evaluation focal persons, 44 Roll Back Malaria focal persons and six Zonal Directors.
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The exercise was organised with support from the AMCEEN Consortium.
Declaring the workshop open on behalf of the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Abubakar Labaran Yusuf, the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Pharmacist Aminu Bashir, stressed the need for evidence-based planning and effective utilisation of resources to strengthen malaria control.
He said robust LGA-level work plans would help identify priority needs, channel resources to areas with the greatest impact and ensure interventions addressed the specific realities of communities.
“Robust LGA-level work plans will enable us to identify priority needs, direct resources to areas of greatest impact and ensure that malaria interventions are responsive to community realities,” he said.
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Also speaking, the Director-General of the Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board, Professor Salisu Ahmad Ibrahim, commended the ministry, participants and the AMCEEN Consortium for their commitment to improving malaria programming.
He urged participants to develop realistic, data-driven and properly costed interventions that could produce measurable improvements in malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment at the grassroots.
Professor Ibrahim said, “Participants must leverage available evidence and mapped resources to develop actionable plans capable of delivering measurable improvements in malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment.”
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The workshop focused on finalising malaria intervention targets for the LGAs, conducting situation analyses of identified challenges, preparing and presenting draft 2027 LGA malaria work plans, as well as reviewing available resources and costing proposed activities.
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The ministry said the exercise would result in prioritised, evidence-based and costed work plans to guide malaria interventions across the 44 LGAs in 2027.
It added that the initiative was expected to contribute to reducing the burden of malaria and improving health outcomes across Kano State.
