Recommendations on procedures for environmental assessment of malaria control programs with special reference to Pakistan

If a universal EA can be prepared for all Malaria programs, much time can be saved and funds currently set to assess environmental impacts could be expended directly on control activities. In the course of this evaluation, much of the basic Malaria literature was reviewed and specialists were consulted in Washington, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, and other places. Several documents related to Malaria projects and the EA of the Sri Lanka Malaria control project were studied. Three conceptual principles are basic to the development of A.I.D. environmental policy with respect to Malaria programs: environmental uniqueness; transferability of information about selected environmental impacts; and monitoring as a means to achieve project continuity and feedback. The main body of the report describes the Malaria control project in Pakistan, the applicability of the Sri Lanka EA for the Pakistan project and also presents a series of recommendations for future environmental policy.