Can it work? Does it work? Is it worth it?

funding needs to be available for planning, implementing, and evaluating these projects. ithin the framework of community development, preventive health measures can be introduced into dam projects without detracting from their economic and agricultural benefits while increasing their overall benefits. The measures need to be simple, inexpensive, and involve community participation with the use of local staff and facilities. A combination of malaria control measures which incorporate local knowledge and fit local circumstances are more likely to succeed than following global recipes. Thus governments and aid agencies need to make a policy commitment to minimise the adverse health risks of dam projects by adopting an integrated package of environmental management strategies for vector control and effective public health interventions as part of community development activities.