PAMVERC was founded in 2008 as a consortium of three African vector control research sites specializing in the development and evaluation of malaria vector control products and interventions. The sites are located at Moshi and Muheza in Tanzania and in Cotonou, Benin. The trial sites and host institutions have historical collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. PAMVERC was established to bring together the unique features of each trial site which results from their location in ecologically diverse but representative regions of malaria endemic Africa. The sites contain the main malaria-transmitting mosquito species – Anopheles gambiae s.s., Anopheles arabiensis and Anopheles funestus and capture the different insecticide resistance mechanisms, the different mosquito faunas and the different levels of malaria transmission to be found in coastal and highland settings across Africa. As a result within PAMVERC there is an opportunity to undertake a broad evaluation of products and interventions to test their applicability across much of Africa, as well as a rich spectrum of other research ideas.