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 The African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET) now enters its second level hierarchy in
development by the evolution and presentation of this ambitious five-year strategic plan
that will run from 2007-2011. I remember with fond memories when we inaugurated the
first strategic plan in 2004 and I wrote the first foreword filled with much humility and
hope. AMANET was born in 2002, and can now walk and run. From mainly organizing
training workshops in research ethics to include GCP and GLP, now AMANET can
sponsor vaccine trials. The present strategic plan uniquely introduces more complex sets
of proposed actions that of necessity are both desirable and contemporary with what is
expected of an initiative with great expectation like AMANET.
This new strategic plan will enhance promotion of regional and global awareness of the
burden of malaria in Africa and provide possibilities for positive disease impact resulting
from relevant research that evaluates prospective interventions with the greatest potential
to impact more favourably on malaria. AMANET will apply novel approaches of
collaboration with stakeholders and support capacity building to strategic institutional
structures to provide the basis for well conceived and executed clinical and field
interventions.
I am pleased that this plan draws much orientation from a thorough analysis of the
experiences and lessons learned during the last planning period. The plan is up to date
and is cognisant of current challenges faced by research institutions in Africa which
include sustaining research activities in concert with infrastructural and human resource
development for meaningful operations. The development, for example, of Afro
immunoassay gold standards for evaluating malaria vaccines will provide far reaching
opportunities for institutions to network on validating outcomes from vaccine clinical trials.
Finally, I wish to commend our international development partners that have made it
possible for such a plan to be conceived and developed. I will appeal to their continued
collaboration in order to ensure that the good work AMANET has embarked on continues
to receive appropriate technical and financial support. AMANET on its part will be
required to strengthen its secretariat to support coordination of these increasingly more
complex programmes. Let me also take this opportunity to ensure our networked
institutions and partners of our determination to see that this strategic plan is wholly
implemented on schedule.
Prof. Francis K. Nkrumah
Chairman
AMANET Board of Trustees
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The African Malaria Network Trust [AMANET]
Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology Building
P.O. Box 33207,Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Tel: 255 (022) 2700018, Fax: 255 (022) 2700380
General Email:
info@amanet-trust.org
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