No. | Element | Description |
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1. | Advocacy, social mobilization, and legislation | Promotion and embedding of IVM principles in designing policies in all relevant agencies, organizations and civil society; establishment or strengthening of regulatory and legislative controls for public health; empowerment of communities |
2. | Collaboration within the health sector and with other sectors | Consideration of all options for collaboration within and between public and private sectors; application of the principles of subsidiarity in planning and decision making; strengthening channels of communication among policy-makers, VBD programme managers and other IVM partners |
3. | Integrated approach | Ensure rational use of available resources by addressing several diseases, integrating non-chemical and chemical vector control methods and integrating with other disease control methods |
4. | Evidence-based decision-making | Adaptation of strategies and interventions to local ecology, epidemiology and resources, guided by operational research and subject to routine monitoring and evaluation |
5. | Capacity-building | Provision of the essential material infrastructure, financial resources and human resources at national and local level to manage IVM strategies on the basis of situation analysis |