Community Based Malaria Program Featured in Berkley Center Report

Project Muso’s Community Based Malaria Program is featured in a recent report, Malaria: Scoping New Partnerships published by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. The report focuses on the role religious communities and faith-inspired organizations in global efforts to stop new infections and deaths from malaria.

Malaria: Scoping New Partnerships was prepared for a Leadership Consultation on Scaling up Faith Community Impact against Malaria in Washington, D.C., on December 12, 2008 at Georgetown University. The Leadership Consultation, co-hosted by the Berkley Center and the Center for Interfaith Action on Global Poverty, brought together world development and faith leaders in  discuss the current state of the global fight against malaria, share innovative new models for action, and explore new ways to involve religious communities and faith-inspired organizations. Full text of the report is available by clicking here.

The Berkley Center has also published a conversation (available online here) between Project Muso’s Co-Executive Director Ari Johnson, and Thomas Bohnett, Program Coordinator for the World Faiths Development Dialogue. In this interview, they discuss the unique religious diversity of Project Muso’s team, as well as community mobilization efforts that Project Muso has undertaken with local religious leaders through the Community Based Malaria Program.