Featuring Netting News MONITORING AND EVALUATING DELIVERY SYSTEMS FOR INSECTICIDE-TREATED NETS: THE TANZANIAN NATIONAL VOUCHER SCHEME by Kara Hanson and the Tanzanian National Voucher Scheme Monitoring and Evaluation Team

Increasing ITN coverage is seen as a valuable means to progress towards the Millennium Development Goals1. However, there remains considerable debate about how best to deliver nets and design and target subsidies in order to achieve an appropriate balance among the objectives of equity, efficiency, and sustainability2-5. One key delivery issue is scale of operation: many ITN projects have been implemented on a very small scale, covering individual communities or a small number of districts. Only a few ITN delivery models have been expanded to operate at a national scale. These latter models include the integration of ITN distribution with immunization campaigns6-7 and social marketing through public sector facilities8