Why Community Health?

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A community health approach:

 

  • Builds partnerships with local people and institutions to create resources within a community
  • Improves health provider skills
  • Strengthens health systems
  • Builds links between communities and formal health systems
  • Promotes the use of volunteers for delivery of information, training, and care

     

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The Nutrition Working Group underscores the critical role of nutrition in maternal and child survival and health through dissemination of state-of-the-art information and approaches essential for quality nutrition programming.

2009 Highlights

CORE Group Nutrtion Working Group held a Positive Deviance/Hearth Technical Advisory Group (TAG) meeting in early 2009 in order to:

  • review implementation and results of PD/Hearth from recent experiences
  • explore challenges and modifications in PD/Hearth implementation and make recommendations related to both essential elements and implications for scale.
  • identify how PD/Hearth has been integrated into overall nutrition programs and with other approaches in order to make programmatic recommendations for the Nutrition Pathways tool.

The TAG Team reviewed PD/H experiences from the I-LIFE Title II consortium in Malawi, CCF / India’s PD/H work in West Bengal reaching over 14,000 malnourished children, SC Tajikistan’s integration of PD/H into a CSH program, government of Ethiopia PD/H program, PVO program in Bolivia, Indonesia PD/H Consortium final evaluation, Children’s Nutrition Program in Haiti, as well as specific experiences of TAG participants in other countries.  Presentations, detailed TAG notes and recommendations.


Past Highlights

Working Group Tools/Resources

For additional resources, see Child Health + Development database.

Working Group Meetings and Reports

Useful Links

 
 

Nutrition An After Thought?

A 2008 Lancet series categorized nutrition as an “after thought” in development priorities.

To address this and catalyze action among policy makers, a consortia of partners, including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, and  a range of developing country partners, CSOs and bilateral agencies developed a policy brief, Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action. The brief outlines key considerations, principles and priorities needed to address under-nutrition.

Learn more about Scaling Up Nutrition: A Framework for Action

Read the policy brief 

Endorse the Framework for Action

Endorsement by your organizations will help to demonstrate the broad consensus among nutrition experts and advocates about what is needed now to address maternal and child under-nutrition.

Send us your organization's logo by March 15, 2010 to contact  'at' coregroupdc.org

Learn More about CORE Group's upcoming spring meeting session on nutrition.

 
 
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