Do you face a challenge with malaria in your community?

Is this challenge still there, despite everyone’s efforts?

Join this exercise to find the root cause and take action.

Are you ready to take action?

Join if:

1. you work for health and
2. malaria affects the people you serve.

Enroll now. Then invite one person to join you.

Do not enroll in this course alone. Think of one colleague who faces similar challenges. Invite them. The course works best when you take it together.

Invite a colleague on WhatsApp, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, LinkedIn, Telegram, Facebook, or X/Twitter.

What you do, step by step

1. Pick one challenge. Choose a malaria problem you face at work. Just one.
2. Find the root cause. Dig under the problem until you find what is really causing it.
3. Write your plan. Set one goal. List the actions that will get you there.
4. Get it checked. Other malaria workers read your plan. They tell you how to make it better. You fix it before you start.
5. Start the launch pad. This is the main part. You stop planning and start doing.

What is the Impact Accelerator Launch Pad?

This is where this exercise is different from every training you have done before.

• You do the actions in your plan, at your job, in real life.
• You report what happened. What worked. What did not.
• Other workers support you, share what they tried, and you move forward, together.
• You do it again. And again.

Most people do not get stuck because they lack knowledge.

They get stuck because starting alone is hard.

The launch pad gets you started and keeps you going.

What is in it for you

1. You use what you already have. Every action assumes no new money, no new staff, no new supplies. You change how you use your time, your register, your phone, and the people near you.
2. You get answers from people who know your job. Say the forms ran out. Say a clinician gave medicine after a negative test. Someone in the network has faced this. They will tell you what they did.
3. You build proof of your own work. By the end you can show what you did and what changed. Not “I attended a training.” Instead: “I did this, and this improved.”
4. You become known outside your facility. Malaria workers in other districts and other countries read your work. What you learn goes into reports that national malaria programmes and their partners read.

How this fits your country’s malaria goals

Malaria killed about 610 000 people in 2024. About 95% of those deaths were in Africa.

Your country is trying to do three things with every malaria case:

• Test every person suspected of having malaria.
• Treat every confirmed case with good quality medicine.
• Track every case in the data.

The World Health Organization calls this Test, Treat, Track. Your daily work is where it succeeds or fails.

What you earn

You earn a Certificate of Contribution from The Geneva Learning Foundation, documenting your progress.

• Your certificate shows what you did to improve health.
• After the course you stay in the network, with other people who are also taking action.
• You keep learning from and supporting each other.
• Your results are followed over time.

You can see if health in your area improved, and show that your work made a difference.