USAID releases external evaluation of President's Malaria Initiative

USAID on Tuesday released the final report (.pdf) by an external evaluation team of the first five years (FY 2006-FY 2010) of the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI), which is a major component of the Global Health Initiative (GHI), according to a USAID press release. "PMI leadership agrees with the overall findings and believes that the 10 main recommendations are both relevant and useful for program improvement," the press release states, noting "[t]he evaluators gave the PMI high marks in effective leadership, good management and participatory processes" (2/21).