NOTE: The following is taken from summaries released by PEPFAR on the PEPFAR Data Dashboard. They are incomplete summary paragraphs only and do not contain the full mechanism details. When the full narratives are released, we will update the mechanism pages accordingly.

IMPACT:I-TECH’s goals and objectives are aligned with the National Strategic Plan for HIV and AIDS, Health Sector Strategic Plan 2011-2016, the PEPFAR Blueprint, the PEPFAR Framework Implementation Plan and the Global Health Initiative Strategy. I-TECH provides vital Technical Assistance (TA) to the Ministry of Health (MOH) through secondment of TAs, Programme Officers and Fellows for management of M&E, Care and treatment, and Supply Chain Management and Logistics; for support to health informatics and Global Fund grants management.TA is provided at national, zonal and district level.I-TECH provides direct support to Lilongwe District Health Office for Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision. I-TECH also provides TA to improve quality of pre-service education at Christian Health Association of Malawi nursing colleges and University of Malawi’s College of Medicine. I-TECH brings technical expertise to critical national Health Systems Strengthening initiatives through quarterly supervisory facility visits, clinical mentoring, tracking of pre and in-service training data, electronic data systems, Health Management Information Systems, operations research; and the roll out and scale up of important public health interventions, such as Option B+, Pediatric HIV, HIV integrated service delivery model (TB/HIV, PMTCT/HIV) including more rigorous quality improvement and quality assurance to improve HIV care and treatment outcomes. I-TECH is proposing to continue monitoring MOH TA needs and develop a capacity building plan with recommendations informing appropriate skills mix to respond to the 2012 MOH institutional review. I-TECH is also providing TA to advance health worker regulation and policy including capacity building of professional regulatory bodies.

Since COP2014, PEPFAR no longer produces narratives for every mechanism it funds. However, PEPFAR has now included performance targets or indicator information for each mechanism based on the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting (MER) system. The MER guidance is available on PEPFAR's website https://www.pepfar.gov/reports/guidance/. Note that COP years 2014-2015 were under a previous version of the MER system and the indicators and definitions may have changed as of the new 2.0 guidance.