The effecTiveneSS of new inSTiTUTionAl innovATionS: The hARMonizATion geneRATed BY Roll BAck MAlARiA (RBM). The cASe of SenegAl

Abstract

This work examines the effectiveness in the coordination of new institutional innovations that are public-private partnerships. The article uses a case study focused primarily on the fight against malaria in Senegal. The main question addressed here is whether the observed decline in malaria in Senegal and more generally in the world following the creation of the Partnership to Roll Back Malaria (Roll Back Malaria-RBM) comes from the performance of this partnership in coordination. If RBM seems to answer positively to this question, the analyzes carried out here suggest that the positive impact of this partnership in terms of coordination remains to be demonstrated. Thus, the decline of malaria in Senegal and the world can hardly be attributed to an increased effective coordination between stakeholders in the fight against malaria, which would act under the impulse of RBM. However we noticed that the local and international mobilization, including financial, has increased substantially since the inception of RBM. These resources, combined with a serious commitment of local actors, seem to be the main factors explaining the decline of malaria in Senegal found particularly in recent years.