SMC Tool Kit [1]

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.