Care and Repair of Mosquito Nets Toolkit

This online toolkit is a collection of digital resources for promoting mosquito net repair and care behaviours for malaria and dengue prevention and for evaluating programmes for social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) effectiveness. It includes: formative research tools, protocols, and reports; materials developed for behaviour change communication (BCC) campaigns around care and repair; and tools and questionnaires for evaluating net care and repair behaviours, as well as a call for further resources.

As stated here: "Currently it is unknown if care and repair behaviors at the household level increase the useful life of a net. Research is currently underway to evaluate whether such an intervention is effective. Lengthening the useful life of nets would have significant implications for procurement and net replacement strategies. Nets that currently are supposed to last for 3-5 years are observed to be very torn after much shorter periods of time, limiting their protective capacity. Significant cost-savings would be possible if significant proportions of nets in a given area were to last longer, and allow further spacing between mass distributions or replacement strategies using continuous distribution. Results from the initial research studies are expected to be available in the second half of 2014."

The site is organised in the following categories:

• Formative Research
• SBCC Interventions
• Evaluation Resources and Reports
• Peer-Reviewed Literature

Examples include: leaflets and posters, case studies, a durability questionnaire, job aids, "Nasarawa State NetCare Community Health Volunteer Event Reporting Form", "Net Care and Repair Baseline Survey in Uganda", "Net Care and Repair Focus Group Discussion Guide", and "Net Care and Repair Home Visit Guide: Uganda", among many others.

The toolkit is available online and through filling out the Offline Toolkit Order Form.