From 9th to 10th December 2025, DAPP hosted the National Community-Led Monitoring (CLM) Malaria Stakeholders Meeting, a key platform that brings community insights through their voices to the forefront of national malaria decision-making.

We were honoured to have the Public Health Director-representative from the Ministry of Health as our Guest of Honour, alongside senior representatives from Development Aid from People to People (DAPP), Church Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ),

National Malaria Elimination Centre (NMEC), and Global Fund/ CHAZ Sub recipients implementing CLM activities, and 10 Provincial teams directly engaged in malaria programs.

The meeting highlighted the impact of the CLM Malaria project as a powerful tool for amplifying community experiences and voices. It ensures that challenges such as commodity stock outs at both facility and community levels, Insecticide Treated Nets misuse and limited access, low or unavailable Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials, referral barriers for severe malaria cases, gaps in Community Health Worker malaria service delivery, and environmental health concerns are brought to light. Through CLM community dialogue meetings, facility dialogue meetings, and district dissemination meetings, provincial stakeholder engagements, and now the national stakeholders meeting, partners can plan timely and actionable responses using evidence-based CLM data.

Stakeholders reviewed consolidated action plans at all levels of CLM findings from 2024–2025 and agreed on practical steps to enhance accountability, community engagement, and the overall quality of malaria services nationwide.

As Zambia continues its journey toward malaria elimination, community voices remain central. Some examples of community voices during Community Dialogue meetings: example, one Chief Induna said that “The project has strengthened collaboration between the community headmen and the health facility, empowering us to work collectively toward a malaria-free catchment area.”

The national CLM action planning and recommendations made during the two-day meeting reaffirm our shared goal of a malaria-free nation.