The SMC Tool Kit 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 Tool Kit offers the following sections:

Planning

• Calendar for community health workers [2]
• Checklist for health officer [3]
• Child counting card [4]
• Medicine counting card [5]
• SMC planner [6]

Training

• SMC job aid [7]
• Training manual [8]
• Assessment form [9]
• Training certificate [10]
• Training video for health workers [11]

Monitoring & evaluation

• Form for monitoring [12]
• Drug adverse events form [13]

Communications

• SMC passport [14]
• Child wristband [15]
• Flyer for door-to door-distribution  [16]
• Flyer for fixed point distribution  [17]

The SMC Tool Kit 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 [18] for the source files.

The SMC Tool Kit 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.