AMF helps protect people from malaria. We fund anti-malaria nets, specifically long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs), and work with distribution partners to ensure they are used. We track and report on net use and impact. Currently 625,000 people die from malaria each year and 240 million fall ill. 70% of the deaths are children under 5. The number of children that die from malaria every day would fill three 747s. Yet no-one need die. Malaria is transmitted via the bites of malaria-carrying mosquitoes that typically bite between 10 o/clock at night and two in the morning. That timing is what we have on our side and this is why the most effective form of malaria control is to have people in affected areas sleep under a long-lasting insecticidal net. Each net costs $2 and protects two people. This is the focus of AMF's work. AMF distributes nets in the millions and tens of millions in national campaigns in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, to help bring malaria under control.

We wish to see malaria eradicated. There are two stages to this. Driving the change from malaria being 'present and out of control' to it being 'present but under control'; and then to eventual 'elimination'. This is eminently achievable.

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Goal One: Continue to drive up our organisation's revenues as the more funds we receive, the more people we can protect when they sleep at night from the bites of malaria-carrying mosquitoes.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Continue to focus on high levels of accountability for our work, and those of our partners, which is delivered through a focus on data and transparent reporting.

Goal Type: This goal reflects our commitment to further our advocacy work for our organization and or cause area.

Goal Three: Continue to support the deployment of innovative types of anti-malaria mosquito nets as we deal with occurrences of insecticide resistance.

Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.

Describe an investment in leadership

Two of our team have received extensive and sustained mentoring over the past year from our CEO and Executive Chairman to develop leadership and management abilities. Management development has included, by way of example, the following areas: 1) goal setting (which includes elements of strategy and operation and is crucial to determining the organisation's direction); 2) prioritising (a key area when there are multiple opportunities available to the organisation); 3) targeting and delivering operations efficiency (particularly using technology, which helps to orient staff time to high value activities that allows greater focus on individual staff members' personal and career development goals).

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

• Policy Advocacy

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

At the heart of what AMF does are partnerships with many organisations that are key to us delivering malaria control. Two examples: 1. Co-funding and operational partnerships We have strategic co-funding partnerships, e.g. with The Global Fund and with the US Government's President's Malaria Initiative that allow funding to go further; and operational partnerships, e.g. with Ministries of Health and with in-country independent monitoring organisations, that improve and optimize malaria control activities. 2. Leading research We fund and participate in research that generates data and enhances product knowledge that improves the targeting and delivery of malaria control, e.g. AMF recently committed US$8.5m to a three year gold-standard research project (a randomised controlled trial, RCT) of a new type of anti-malaria net, with the results of the research proving pivotal in establishing a new category of net as a major tool in the fight against malaria.

Over the last year we have adjusted and adapted our operations in two key ways. 1. Use of technology We have extended our use of technology to move from paper-based collection of data at millions of individual households to data collection using electronic devices. This has provided both accountability and operational benefits. Re accountability, the collection of data in a format that can be analysed and verified in real time or near real time, and with additional data that would otherwise be difficult to collect, such as GPS location data, allows a clearer understanding of program effectiveness and allows improvement adjustments to be made mid-program and, overall, enhances accountability and delivers better malaria control. Re operations, costs are reduced and operations can be better managed as a result of data being available earlier and often real time. 2. Combatting insecticide resistance As Chares Darwin predicted through his discussion of 'survival of the fittest', today as for many years, we see some species of mosquito that can adapt to the insecticide used on long-lasting insecticidal nets and as a result not be killed by the insecticide. This has required organisations working on malaria control to collaborate and develop new products e.g. nets with different combinations of insecticide and other chemicals, that are safe for humans but, in combination, deal with the mosquitoes showing some resistance to insecticide-alone formulations. AMF's role in this activity has been to both support the distribution of new net products, once they have received the appropriate approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO), and to lead research and monitoring on their in-field performance, gathering data that can reliably inform net purchase decisions.