The SMC toolkit will help you to:

• Plan your budget and activities, as well as forecast the amount of medicines needed for your programme
• Train staff to deliver SMC programmes safely and efficiently
• Track performance and monitor progress
• Inform and educate families to ensure appropriate drug use and optimize adherence
• Raise awareness, advocate effectively, sensitize the general public and mobilize resources
• Learn best practices from countries and organizations with SMC experience

The SMC toolkit offers the following sections:

Planning

• Calendar for community health workers
• Checklist for health officer
• Child counting card
• Medicine counting card
• SMC planner

Training

• SMC job aid
• Training manual
• Assessment form
• Training certificate
• Training video for health workers

Monitoring & evaluation

• Form for monitoring
• Drug adverse events form

Communications

• SMC passport
• Child wristband
• Flyer for door-to door-distribution 
• Flyer for fixed point distribution 

The SMC toolkit materials were pre-tested in two different regions in Senegal to ensure they meet the needs of district planners and trainers, village leaders, nurses in charge of health centres; community health workers and caregivers – typically mothers. The materials have been adapted based on feedback and lessons learned. If you would like to adapt any of the documents for your own context, please contact us at info@mmv.org for the source files.

The SMC toolkit was produced by MMV. MMV gratefully acknowledges the following partners who contributed to the technical content and development of the materials:

• Global Malaria Programme/ World Health Organization, Malaria Consortium, Médecins Sans Frontières and UNICEF
• National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCP) of Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.

A special thank you to our partners at RBM's WARN (West Africa Regional Network) and CARN (Central Africa Regional Network) for their strong support throughout the project.