How do you ensure that the nets sent to refugee settlements are used by the refugees themselves and not sold on the black market?
To minimize misuse and selling of nets and to ensure continuous usage, UNHCR organizes IEC (information, education and communication) activities in which they ask the refugee community to actively take part. In these campaigns UNHCR creates the awareness that a net can save a life, but only when properly used. In addition, when refugees live among or close to their host communities, UNHCR provides nets to the host communities. That ensures that the need for nets among the hosting communities is less of an incentive for refugees to sell their nets. In many countries we are now also advocating for the governments to include refugees and internally displaced persons in the general distribution of mosquito nets. Such general distributions are taking place more often and are organized at the national level by national malaria control programmes and funded by the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM), among others. Back to top 16. Our church is participating in the Noth
