This project involves technical support provided by GroupMappers to the RBM Partnership to End Malaria and the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU) for a regional consultation focused on Routine Data Quality Audits and Assessments (DQAs) for malaria programmes across the Asia-Pacific region. The consultation aims to document how countries currently conduct DQAs, identify common challenges and root causes of poor malaria data quality, and understand how audit findings are used to strengthen surveillance and reporting systems.

The consultation assesses existing national DQA practices, including governance arrangements, frequency of implementation, and the levels of the health system where audits are conducted. It also reviews the scope and methodology of DQAs, including the tools and guidelines used, indicator selection processes, facility sampling approaches, and the specific data quality dimensions assessed such as completeness, validity, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and uniqueness. A key focus is capturing common findings and challenges reported by countries and exploring how DQA results are tracked, followed up, and translated into concrete improvements in routine malaria data systems.

Under this engagement, GroupMappers contributes by structuring and documenting consultation questions, developing supporting technical materials to clarify key DQA concepts, and supporting the synthesis of country responses to identify patterns, gaps, and good practices across the region. The work also supports the identification of potential case studies where DQA processes and outcomes are well documented and replicable for broader learning.