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PRESIDENT’S MALARIA INITIATIVE

Teresa Bernhard, Global Health BEO

Environmental Management and Capacity Building Project

WHY EMCAB?

• Field of environmental health

and safety in the context of vector control is relatively new.

• Regulation 216 requires that

USAID ensure that environmental factors and values are integrated into the USAID decision-making process.

• Massive scale-up of both IRS
• perations and LLIN distribution

requires detailed attention to environmental compliance.

• Centrally funded project during the first year (three year contract)
• Field visits to PMI priority countries
• Best practices review
• EMCAB will fully utilize lessons learned from Past and

Ongoing PMI IRS programming

• EMCAB will focus on adding value to existing IRS

programs supported by USAID

• EMCAB will identify practical opportunities and

approaches for mitigating potential risks

• Dissemination of these best practices
• Capacity building/training opportunities

Photo by Autman Tembo, RTI

Photo by Autman Tembo, RTI

Photo by Marshall Fischer, IRG Photo by Marshall Fischer, IRG

IRS Programs have been Implemented by PMI Partners in some Target Countries for over Two Years

EMCAB 101

Illustrative Areas for Possible Best Practices

Planning

• Quantification of pesticides to support IRS campaigns
• Inter-jurisdictional (ministerial) coordination agreements

Procurement

• MSDS Guidance – (Model after ANSI MSDS Guidance) –

Assure full disclosure of critical information on storage, clean-up, disposal, etc. from manufacture.

• Product packaging requirements to improve inventory

management/ accounting and to minimize waste generation

• Product testing protocols to verify chemical quality – prevent

substandard product shipped and becoming waste Supply Chain Logistics

• Chemical inventory practices
• Use manifest for chemical transfers – prevent leakage to non

target sector (e.g., leakage to agriculture sector)

• Guidance on any intermediary formulation of IRS chemicals

Storage and Security

• Warehousing and fire safety (e.g., NFPA Standard 434)
• Signage
• Use of proper PPE and emergency response procedures

Training

• Development of video training aids

Implementation

• Enhancements to applicator training
• Drift recognition and management issues
• Use of countercurrent rinse systems to minimize waste

water generation

• Improved management of PPE and uniform cleaning
• Design considerations for effective evaporation basin
• perations
• Collection, storage and disposal of highly contaminated

waste

• Collection, storage and disposal of low level contaminated

wastes Monitoring and Evaluation Characterization of waste types generated by the IRS process Corrective measures Removal and disposal of contaminated soils Oversight Management General Role of Environmental Jurisdictions in IRS processes

Depending on country needs EMCAB could:

Activity 1. Provide technical support to USAID operating units in environmental compliance assurance of indoor residential spraying (IRS) activities Activity 2. Provide technical support to USAID operating units in environmental compliance assurance of ITNs Activity 3. Monitor additional environmental mitigation measures when DDT is procured and/or used for IRS Activity 4. Examine evidence of non-compliance Activity 5. Under the direction of PMI team members, facilitate collaboration with communities and relevant Ministries (Environment, Health, Agriculture, and others as appropriate in the host country), and ensure compliance with host-country environmental regulations Activity 6. Perform periodic review of implementation of IRS operations

With significant and rapid expansion of the PMI program from coverage of 2 million people in 2006 to 17 million in 2007, there will be a need to apply lessons learned and best practices from the existing program to the expanded program. This is a field in which IRG excels and on which we have worked very closely with USAID in the environment and economic growth fields. IRG Team

• Marshall Fisher, Chief of Party
• Alan Schroeder, Pesticide

Management Specialist

• Jim Tarrant, HO Project Manager

USAID Team

• Andrea Sternberg, Project Manager
• Elissa Beerbohm, Project Manager
• Teresa Bernhand, Technical Resource

Key Elements of Our Approach

• Collaborative work plan development with USAID/GH

and missions

• Flexible and specifically-designed teams to meet the

needs of individual missions and host countries

• Robust KM system to archive databases and

documents and permit ready access to them by stakeholders

• Multi-sectoral approach to policy and institutional

reform based on proven approaches IRG brings an integrated and highly participatory approach to environmental monitoring and capacity building for malaria vector control interventions. Having worked on the Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) Integrated Vector Management programs, we are very familiar with the technical requirements for field monitoring and documentation on compliance with the actions plans of the PERSUAPS of each country’s program as well as the need for capacity building at both the USAID Mission and host country institution level to achieve long-term sustainability.