Pesticide Management
Promoting the safe and judicious use of pesticides is a core component of PMI. As a federal agency, USAID is subject to U.S. environmental regulations, which ensure that development programs, such as PMI, are not only economically sustainable, but protect the host country’s residents, malaria control workers, and environment. The USAID Environmental regulations posted here (22 CFR 216) define the two main components of USAID’s environmental impact assessment procedure.
To support the overarching PMI issues, USAID engaged in a “Programmatic Environmental Assessment” for Insecticide Treated Materials and Integrated Vector Management (including Indoor Residual Spraying). The PEA is used to guide the follow-up country-specific “Supplemental Environmental Assessments”, including “safer use action plans” in any country where support includes the use of pesticides. USAID and PMI policies and procedures for improving the safe and judicious use of pesticides are closely aligned with international standards and regulations, which can be found through the Additional Resources Links below, particularly the World Health Organization Pesticide Evaluation Scheme.
USAID Environmental Procedures
- USAID Environmental Regulations
- USAID Environmental Procedures Training Manual for USAID Environmental Officers and USAID Mission Partners, Africa Edition, March 2005 [PDF, 5.9MB]
Programmatic Environmental Assessments
- Integrated Vector Management Programs for Malaria Vector Control: Programmatic Environmental Assessment - January 2007 [PDF, 2.5MB]
- Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Insecticide-Treated Materials in USAID Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa - January 2002 [PDF, 385KB]
Country-Specific Supplemental Environmental Assessments
- Angola
- Benin
- Ghana
- Liberia
Malaria indoors residual spraying (IRS: supplemental environmental assessment for Presidential malaria initiative – indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Liberia using lambda-cyhalothrin, deltamethrin, alpha-cypermethrin, cyfluthrin, etofenprox or bifenthrin [PDF, 1.5MB] - Madagascar
PERSUAP for IRS using alpha-cypermethrin for malaria control in Madagascar's central highlands: SO5 IEE amendment [PDF, 1.2MB]
- Malawi
Supplemental environmental assessment for indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Malawi [PDF, 1.1MB] - Mali
Malaria indoors residual spraying (IRS): supplemental evironmental assessment for Presidential malaria initiative – indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Mali [PDF, 1.2MB] - Mozambique
Environmental assessment for IRS using carbamates, pyrethroids and DDT for malaria control in Mozambique [PDF, 2.6MB] - Rwanda
Pesticide evaluation report and safer use action plan (PERSUAP) for indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Rwanda [PDF, 256KB] - Senegal
- Tanzania
- Uganda
Malaria indoor residual spraying (IRS): supplementary environmental assessment –
pyrethroid-based indoor residual spraying and piloting of DDT-based IRS for malaria control in
Uganda [PDF, 1.9 MB]
Pesticide evaluation report and safer use action plan (PERSUAP) for indoor residual spraying (IRS) for malaria control in Kabale District, Uganda [PDF, 1.5MB) - Zambia
Supplementary environmental assessment: DDT-based indoor residual spraying for malaria control in Zambia – amended fact sheet [PDF, 604KB] - Zanzibar
Additional Resources
- USAID Africa environmental page for tools and references
- USAID Integrated Vector Management (IVM)
- World Health Organization Pesticide Evaluation Scheme (WHOPES)