Resource Library
CORE Group, in collaboration with its diverse network of partners and member organizations, has developed a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge tools, curricula, and technical resources. We take great pride in the quality and rigor of our work, addressing critical global health challenges—including blindness, malnutrition, and other pressing community health issues—through evidence-based programs and research-driven solutions.
In these pages, we are pleased to share a curated selection of CORE Group-affiliated publications, including articles, books, training materials, and research or program briefs. These resources reflect years of expertise and collaboration, capturing key learnings and innovations that have positioned CORE Group as a leader in advancing community health worldwide.
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A Framework for Integrating Childhood Tuberculosis into Community-based Health Care
ORGANIZATION CORE Group The Union YEAR PUBLISHED 2013 DESCRIPTION The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that approximately 500,000 children each year are diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) and 64,000 HIV-negative children die annually due to TB. The true burden of childhood TB is unknown; children are often undiagnosed and therefore do not receive appropriate care. Childhood TB is often seen with …
August 9, 2017
A Practical Guide to Conducting a Barrier Analysis
pdf English French Arabic Second Edition (2017) English
A Sustainability Review of BHR/PVC-Funded Child Survival Projects in Bangladesh and Bolivia from 1985-1997: What’s Left after All These Years?
pdf English
March 3, 2020
Addressing Overweight and Obesity in Low- And Middle-Income Countries: Roles and Recommendations for Non-Governmental Organizations and Program Implementers
ORGANIZATION CORE Group YEAR PUBLISHED 2022 DESCRIPTION It is the position of the Nutrition Working Group of CORE Group that prevention of overweight and obesity be incorporated into nutrition programming in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), complementing the current focus on undernutrition programming. The proportion of the global population experiencing overweight and obesity is increasing, particularly in low- and middle-income ...
March 8, 2022
Adherence to Standards for MNH Service Delivery at Public and Private Facilities: A MultiCountry Analysis of Service Provision Assessment Data
This analysis, conducted under the Data for Impact (D4I) award, leverages Service Provision Assessment (SPA) data from 2012–2022 to evaluate the adherence of MNH service providers to WHO process standards. The study examines differences between public and private facilities, including for-profit and not-for-profit (NFP) facilities, and tracks changes over time in selected countries.
September 23, 2025
AFP Case Detection and Status of Surveillance in Pastoralist and Semi-pastoralist Communities of CORE Group Polio Project Implementation Districts (woredas) in Ethiopia
pdf English
August 29, 2017
Assessing and Improving Quality of Private Family Planning/Reproductive Health Provider Network in Nepal
Presentation: Assess the status of FP service delivery through a network of private pharmacy-based providers (also known as the ‘Sangini’ network)
October 2, 2025
Assessment of India’s Locally Manufactured Contraceptive Product Supply
This report, prepared under the aegis of the Private Sector Partnerships-One (PSP-One) project, examines Indian manufacturers of generic versions of hormonal contraceptives (oral contraceptive pills, emergency contraception, and injectable contraceptives) and intrauterine devices.
Better Together: Linking Family Planning and Community Health for Health Equity and Impact
With the endorsement of WHO, USAID and other policymaking bodies, integrated services, including family planning, represent the future of community and primary health care.
Bridging the humanitarian-development divide: Background Paper for the World Humanitarian Summit side event “Making the SDGs work for Humanitarian Needs”
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June 4, 2019
Bringing humanitarian and development frameworks, financing and programmes closer together
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION Emergency Nutrition Network YEAR PUBLISHED 2018 DESCRIPTION This case study focuses on nutrition resilience and the humanitarian development nexus (HDN) in Somalia. Researchers carried out a series of interviews, field work, and meetings in Nairobi, Mogadishu, and the Dollow District, in order to analyze what opportunities are available in these areas to increase nutrition resilience through the strengthening of ...
Building Public-Private Linkages to Advance Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Services in Africa
Workshop to strengthen existing MOH capacity to engage private sector in RH/FP and HIV/AIDs related services
October 2, 2025
Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines
USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) is issuing these Emergency Application Guidelines per relevant federal laws, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) policy, and international humanitarian agreements. These Guidelines are issued under restricted eligibility conditions for emergency/disaster assistance or based on programmatic purpose in compliance with USAID Automated Directive System (ADS) 303. They apply to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) submitting applications to BHA for either new awards or modifications of existing awards. These Guidelines provide detailed information about the application submission and award process for grants, cooperative agreements, and fixed amount awards, hereafter termed “awards.”
September 23, 2025
Can Generic Contraceptive Manufacturers Increase Equity Without Compromising Quality?
Presentation
October 2, 2025
Can we halt health workforce deterioration in failed states? Insights from Guinea-Bissau on the nature, persistence and evolution of its HRH crisis.
pdf English
May 23, 2019
Care Groups: A Training Manual for Program Design and Implementation
pdf English Spanish French
August 9, 2017
Charting health system reconstruction in post-war Liberia: a comparison of rural vs. remote healthcare utilization
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION Last Mile Health Academic Journal: BMC Health Services Research YEAR PUBLISHED 2016 DESCRIPTIONd This paper works to better understand the recovery efforts of the health sector in Liberia, following a conflict. It focuses in on the changes in how health services are utilized in the five-year period after the conflict. Data from the Liberian Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) ...
June 4, 2019
Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group Benefits Survey for CORE Members
pdf Benefits Survey Final Report
February 24, 2020
Community Approaches to Child Health in Cameroon—Applying the C-IMCI Framework
In 1992, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) developed the IMCI strategy to address the five major causes of child mortality (diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, measles and malnutrition) using an integrated ‘whole child’ approach. This strategy recognizes that children often suffer from multiple illness events at the same time or in close proximity to each other, yet are typically diagnosed by health personnel only for the reported illness.
Community Approaches to Child Health in Malawi
This paper documents World Relief’s approach to C-IMCI interventions at the household level in Malawi, where the government is dedicated to implementing C-IMCI through its community network of health surveillance assistants.
Community Case Management Essentials
The purpose of this guide is to provide operational guidance to design, plan, implement, monitor, and/or advocate for CCM that responds to local needs. It is a “how-to” guide for programs, rather than a source of clinical guidance.
Community event based surveillance for ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: Implementation of a National Level System During a Crisis
pdf English
February 27, 2020
Community Health Committees and Health Facility Management Committees: Program Functionality Assessment Toolkit
pdf English
August 9, 2017
Community Health Workers during the Ebola Outbreak in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION UNICEF YEAR PUBLISHED 2018 This study assesses the impact that community health workers (CHWs) had in West Africa during the recent ebola outbreak. In Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leona, interviews and focus groups were carried out with national, local, and community stakeholders to gain an idea of the views towards the CHWs. In addition to this, quantitative data was ...
May 23, 2019
Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence for child mortality impact
Evidence exists that community-based intervention packages can have substantial child and newborn mortality impact, and may help more countries meet Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) targets.
March 4, 2020
Community-Based Tuberculosis Prevention and Care
This document is designed to serve as a handbook, or primer, for NGOs and CSOs that are considering joining the fight against TB. It provides information on TB and how it is prevented, diagnosed, and treated, how TB programs work on the ground, how communities and CSOs can get involved, and special populations that need extra attention. Step-by-step guidance on getting started in addressing TB, pitfalls to avoid, and a list of useful resources are included.
August 9, 2017
Complexity Matters: Aligning the Monitoring and Evaluation of Social and Behavior Change with the Realities of Implementation
ORGANIZATION CORE Group YEAR PUBLISHED 2016 DESCRIPTION This Call to Action was drafted following the Fall 2015 CORE Group workshop entitled “Behavior Change in the Age of Complexity” and subsequently presented at the International SBCC Summit 2016 and the Spring 2016 CORE Group Meeting. Feedback from audiences at these events has been incorporated into this version of the Call. The ...
April 29, 2020
Complexity-Aware Monitoring
This discussion note outlines general principles and promising approaches for monitoring complex aspects of USAID development assistance.
September 23, 2025
Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Social and Behavior Change Interventions
complexity matters
June 11, 2021
Consortium Management and Leadership Training Facilitator’s Guide
Although this guide approaches consortium management with foremost consideration for the implications for Food for Peace-funded development food assistance programs, this consortium management and leadership training can serve as a useful framework for strengthening consortia of any type.
August 9, 2017
Contraceptive Security in the Central Asian Republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan
The report provides an overview of these two areas and offers specific recommendations for possible USAID interventions to improve the availability of affordable and quality family planning products in the three Central Asian countries.
October 2, 2025
Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons 2
Assess challenges and opportunities for 2 contraceptive security by making a joint diagnosis of the problems and strengths that exist in the system.
Contraceptive Security: Ready Lessons 3
Develop and implement a multi-partner 3 strategy that leverages the assets of the public and private sectors.
CORE Group Country Collaboration Model: Development of a National Community Participation Policy in Cambodia
This paper aims to discuss a project with the purpose to support a multi-sectoral, participatory process resulting in a national policy on community participation in health.
March 4, 2020
Counseling, Informed Consent, and Debriefing for Cesarean Section in Nigeria
To better understand attitudes, preferences, and practices related to CCD in the context of both emergency and non-emergency surgical obstetric care, the MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project * conducted a mixed methods research study (including interviews, focus group discussions, observations, and record reviews) in four health facilities in Ebonyi and Sokoto States in Nigeria, between November 2022 and March 2023.
September 23, 2025
Designing for Behavior Change
The “Designing for Behavior Change” workshop responds to community health managers’ and planners’ need for a practical behavioral framework that aids them in planning their projects strategically for maximum effectiveness. It is built upon the BEHAVE Framework, developed by the Academy for Education Development (AED). The workshop trains participants to apply AED’s BEHAVE Framework to improve maternal and child health programming.
September 5, 2017
Designing for Behavior Change: For Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Health and Nutrition
This field-tested, six-day curriculum responds to community development program managers’ and planners’ need for a practical behavioral framework that strategically aids them in planning for maximum effectiveness. The DBC Framework was developed from the earlier BEHAVE Framework (developed by AED) by members of CORE Group’s Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group and the Food Security and Nutrition Network SBC Task Force.
August 9, 2017
Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags is part of a series of quick guides produced by the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program to improve knowledge sharing and program learning by development practitioners.
Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers
This document is an in-depth review of issues and questions that should be considered when addressing key issues relevant for large-scale CHW programs.
Driving Change from the Ground Up: A Series of Success Stories in Community-Led Development
ORGANIZATION CORE Group YEAR PUBLISHED 2024 English
November 22, 2024
Effects of a community scorecard on improving the local health system in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: qualitative evidence using the most significant change technique
pdf English
May 28, 2019
Emergency Toolkit for Food Security and Nutrition Protection: Cholera Disease Preparedness Community Group Module
Through a TOPS Program Small Grant, CORE Group has developed a module to improve preparedness for and response of communities in countries at risk of a cholera epidemic.
August 9, 2017
Enhancing AFP Surveillances in Ethiopia Somali Region: Some Good Practices in the Implementation of BMGF Supported Project
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August 29, 2017
Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security during the First 1,000 Days through Gender-sensitive Social and Behavior Change
This technical resource guide, along with the complementary technical brief, is designed to build the capacity of development practitioners working in nutrition and food security to plan, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive SBC programming in order to improve nutritional outcomes for pregnant and lactating women (PLW) and children under two.
August 9, 2017
Environmental Sustainability in Humanitarian Supply Chain
This document is an additional resource (not required) to Section 12.13. Supply Chain Requirements listed in BHA Emergency Application Guidelines (required). It recommends concrete measures that humanitarian organizations can take to make their logistics and supply infrastructure and practices more environmentally sustainable.
October 2, 2025
Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Framework
Developed in 1997, the Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) framework has been implemented in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It is a tool for advocacy, planning, training and delivery of an integrated package of interventions to reach the high coverage (>90%) needed to achieve public health impact.
August 9, 2017
Evaluating the Impact of Mobiles for Reproductive Health (m4RH)
Presentation to mHealth Working Group
October 2, 2025
Évaluation du secteur privé de la santé de la Côte d’Ivoire : Planification familiale
En dépit des améliorations économiques et politiques, la Côte d’Ivoire fait toujours face à un nombre important de défis en matière de santé, et l’accès aux soins reste difficile pour de nombreuses personnes.
Evaluation of Dimpa Injectable Contraceptive Network in India
Presentation by Dr. Vivek Sharma, Moni Sagar and Arunesh Singh
Exploring the influence of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance on health systems in conflict-affected countries
pdf English
May 30, 2019
Extending the Reach: Contracting Out Hiv Services to the Private Health Sector in Gauteng, South Africa
This study focuses on the experience of Right to Care Health Services (RTCHS), a South African private company that manages HIV and AIDS services on behalf of several clients, including PEPFAR, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the South African government, employers, and medical aid schemes.
October 2, 2025
Financing Preventative HIV Services: The Case of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision in Namibia
A presentation by Dineo Dawn Pereko, SHOPS Country Representative for Namibia.
Focus on Families and Culture: A guide for conducting a participatory assessment on maternal and child nutrition
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how to plan and carry out a rapid community assessment on family roles and influence related to the first critical 1,000 days of life i.e. during pregnancy, with newborns and young children up to two years of age.
September 23, 2025
Grandmothers: A Learning Opportunity
The perspective on child development programming that emerges from the combination of these concepts points to the need to view grandmothers as key actors in family systems and as an invaluable resource for promoting optimal child development at that level.
September 23, 2025
Health in fragile and post-conflict states: a review of current understanding and challenges ahead
pdf English
May 23, 2019
Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) Implementation Guide
Helping Babies Breathe is designed to coordinate with other interventions in a package selected to improve neonatal and maternal health.
March 27, 2018
HIV/AIDS Resource Materials
This document is a guide to help readers consider their needs and abilities to implement any technical aspect of child survival.
March 4, 2020
How Social Capital in Community Systems Strengthens Health Systems: People, Structures, Processes
The purpose of this document is to draw attention to the undervalued resources of a community in programming to improve health status for maternal and child health (MCH), infectious diseases, nutrition, family planning (FP) and chronic diseases.
December 17, 2018
Improving Hormonal Contraceptive Supply: The Potential Contribution of Manufacturers of Generic and Biosimilar Drugs
This paper describes the different types of hormonal-contraceptive manufacturers and opportunities for increased competition from generic and biosimilar suppliers in the procurement field, as well as the commercial sector.
October 2, 2025
Improving Quality of Women’s Health and Family Planning Services in Jordan’s Private Health Sector
Presentation by Dr. Nagham Abu Shakra, Quality Assurance Specialist and Medical Advisor
Improving the Quality of Family Planning Services Provision in Private Health Facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria
Strengthen private sector clinic-based family planning, selected reproductive health, and maternal and child health services (FP/RH/MCH) in Nigeria
Increasing Access to Maternal Health Services through Vouchers: The Uganda Healthy Baby Experience
Presentation by Anna Mackay, SIFPO Deputy Director
Increasing family planning access and choice
The key lessons in this paper will help service providers, programme managers and donors implement and/ or strengthen clinical outreach programmes for reproductive health and family planning services.
Innovative Community-based Interventions to Improve Newborn Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
pdf English Spanish
March 3, 2020
Integrating Breast Cancer Screening into FP/RH Women’s Outreach
Presentation on the Private Sector Project for Women’s Health Jordan 2005-2010
October 2, 2025
Integrating MIYCN initiatives across sectors in Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya
pdf English
February 27, 2020
International Roundtable on Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile Settings
pdf English
May 30, 2019
Knowledge, Practice, Coverage (KPC) Survey Training Curriculum
This training of survey trainers (TOST) curriculum is designed to prepare KPC TOST participants to replicate training activities to teach KPC field staff to carry out a KPC survey.
August 31, 2017
Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage Survey 2000+ FIELD GUIDE
pdf Field Guide Trainer’s Guide Participant’s Guide
March 3, 2020
Landscape Assessment on the Adaptation of Community Models and Approaches for Improving COVID-19 Immunization across Sub-Saharan Africa
ORGANIZATION MOMENTUM YEAR PUBLISHED 2024 DESCRIPTION Early lessons from COVID-19 vaccination experience demonstrate that using diverse delivery strategies such as mass vaccination in combination with community engagement resulted in a 15 percent increase in uptake in SSA (WHO Africa 2022a). We postulate that using trusted community models and structures is critical to promote demand for, confidence in, and uptake of ...
June 12, 2024
Living through conflict and post-conflict: experiences of health workers in northern Uganda and lessons for people-centred health systems.
pdf English
May 28, 2019
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS): Protocol for Parallel Sampling & Guidance FAQs
pdf LQAS Protocol for Parallel Sampling LQAS Frequently Asked Questions
August 9, 2017
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Excel Spreadsheets
The LQAS Excel Spreadsheets are designed to provide all of the calculations needed to determine if each Supervision Area (SA) has met the Decision Rule (DR) for every indicator entered, as well as calculating the average coverage for the entire project area (all Supervision Areas combined). Simply list each indicator collected in the data entry tabs, and then enter the …
Make Me a Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff
These lessons seek to build the skills of community-level workers, such as community development agents, community health workers, and agriculture extension agents, so that they can be more effective behavior change promoters in their communities.
Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium
This guide is designed to assist program designers working for international NGOs in selecting essential components, actions and appropriate indicators for chosen interventions in maternal and newborn care.
March 3, 2020
Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium
The Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium is designed to assist program designers working for international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) develop high quality programs focused on women and children. The Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium is the result of a three-year collaborative effort led by the Safe Motherhood/Reproductive Health (SMRH) Working Group, CORE Group.
March 4, 2020
Maternal Mental Health: A Toolkit for Engaging Faith Actors as Change Agents
This toolkit is a resource for faith actors’ role of providing holistic, culturally appropriate care to the communities they serve.
October 2, 2025
MCSP Community Health Contributions Series
MCSP advocated for institutionalizing community health as part of national health systems, strengthening the capacity of community health workers (CHWs), and supporting community infrastructure in partnership with country governments and civil society organizations. These briefs comprise an eight-part series developed by MCSP to review and understand the processes of community engagement in MCSP-supported countries and identify how the community health ...
December 17, 2019
mHealth Field Guide for Newborn Health
This guide that explains how mHealth serves newborn health through referral and tracking of mothers and infants, decision support for CHWs, CHW supervision, scheduling and tracking postpartum and postnatal visits, and teaching and counseling for mothers and families.
August 9, 2017
Monitoring and Evaluation of Evolving Social Accountability Efforts in Health – A Literature Synthesis
Social accountability interventions present various approaches that support citizens’ participation, direct or indirect, in dialogue with service providers and other officials with a goal of developing a collaborative relationship to improve quality of service provision. Despite recent attention on social accountability interventions, progress on updating or adapting how these interventions are monitored and evaluated has been slow. A better understanding ...
May 22, 2019
Mtoto Mwerevu Stunting Reduction Toolkit
ORGANIZATION IMA World Health YEAR PUBLISHED 2019 DESCRIPTION The Mtoto Mwerevu Stunting Reduction Toolkit is a resource for government and organisations involved in addressing stunting and broader nutrition issues in Tanzania. Its goal is to provide government, donors, non-governmental organisations, and civil society organisations (CSOs) with programmeming recommendations and tools to help implement successful multi-sectoral social and behaviour change (SBC) ...
June 22, 2021
Navigating Uncharted Waters: A Guide to the Legal and Regulatory Environment for Family Planning Services in the Private Sector
This guide helps RH/FP program designers and implementers conduct a legal and regulatory assessment to prevent barriers to programs and address constraints encountered during implementation.
October 2, 2025
Newborn Tracking for Polio birth dose vaccination in Pastoralist and Semi-pastoralist CORE Group Polio Project Implementation Districts (Woredas) in Ethiopia
pdf English
August 29, 2017
Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool for Program Planners, Version 2
The Nutrition Program Design Assistant is a tool to help organizations design the nutrition component of their community-based maternal and child health, food security, or other development program. The tool focuses on prevention and also provides guidance on recuperative approaches that are needed when there is a high prevalence of acute malnutrition.
August 9, 2017
Participatory Facilitation Techniques Workshop Curriculum
This curriculum equips trainers to lead a short skill-building workshop to provide meeting facilitators with some new “tools” and techniques for facilitation. We encourage trainers to modify this workshop as necessary to fit your audience and your needs.
August 9, 2017
Partnering with Grandmothers and Healers to Eliminate the “Disease of Dust” in Senegal A Case Study in Community-Based Tuberculosis Control
In 2003, Christian Children’s Fund (CCF) Senegal began to offer community-based TB services. This case study documents that effort and suggests that community health staff and volunteers, with relatively short training, are able to successfully play critical roles within the Ministry of Health’s national tuberculosis program.
March 3, 2020
Partnership-Define Quality (PDQ) Facilitation Guide & PDQ Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
The Partnership Defined Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit provides a set of tools including supervisory checklists, mapping tools and an exit interview to support the implementation of PDQ.
March 27, 2018
Partnerships in Action An Integrated Approach to Combining a Measles Campaign with a Bed Net, Vitamin A and Mebendazole Campaign in Zambia
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March 3, 2020
Post-Conflict Health Reconstruction: New Foundations for U.S. Policy
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION United States Institute of Peace YEAR PUBLISHED 2009 DESCRIPTION This working paper addresses the following questions. What do we know about the impact of war on health and health systems? What have we learned about effective strategies to help states meet the health needs of their populations in the aftermath of conflict? What is the appropriate foundation for a ...
May 23, 2019
Primary Health Care: A Redefinition, History, Trends, Controversies and Challenges
pdf English
March 4, 2020
Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities
This toolkit is designed to equip faith actors and related stakeholders—such as Ministries of Health, medical and scientific bodies, and non-profit organizations that partner with or work alongside faith actors—with the information and tools needed to raise awareness, reduce misinformation, and address barriers that prevent faith communities, in particular, from engaging in vaccination.
October 2, 2025
Reaching Communities for Child Health: Advancing Health Outcomes through Multi-Sectoral Approaches
pdf English
March 3, 2020
REALIZE: Social and Behavioral Change for Gender Equity and Diversity
The Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program and CARE USA are pleased to offer this set of field-friendly activities entitled Realize: Social and Behavior Change for Gender Equity and Diversity (SBC for GED). The aim of these lessons is to build awareness, facilitate critical reflective dialogue, and explore potential action to improve gender equity and diversity among development staff and community members and to identify GED linkages within social and behavior change interventions to increase their effectiveness.
September 14, 2017
ReBUILD Consortium, Health systems during and after crisis: evidence for better policy and practice (Brief 2)
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION ReBUILD Consortium YEAR PUBLISHED 2017 DESCRIPTION This report focuses on how equitable health systems can be created. It defines health systems as "social institutions in which access and experiences are determined by a complex set of social factors and relations." Oftentimes, patterns of social exclusion manifest themselves in the healthcare systems of certain countries, making it hard for disadvantaged ...
June 4, 2019
ReBUILD Consortium, Health systems during and after crisis: evidence for better policy and practice (Brief 8)
[/vc_column_text]ORGANIZATION ReBUILD Consortium YEAR PUBLISHED 2017 DESCRIPTION This report focuses on developing health systems in crisis-affected settings. There has been large growth in field, accompanied by efforts to develop systems in the Global South. It is greatly important to develop the capacity of these countries to develop their health systems, as they are currently very weak. This piece touches upon ...
Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
pdf English
March 3, 2020
Regional trends in private and public provision of long- and short-acting contraceptive methods
What have been the trends in the use of modern contraceptives (LA/PM and short-acting methods) sourced from the private sector (for-profit or commercial) over the past 20 years?
October 2, 2025
Round Table on Social Accountability Malawi, September 2018: Report and Suggestions Moving Forward
On September 6, 2018, UNICEF and USAID co-convened a round table meeting in Lilongwe, Malawi, to bring together 52 stakeholders from civil society, government, academia and funding agencies to discuss the work done under the SAcc EWEC project and the broader learning context for social accountability in Malawi.
March 11, 2019
Safe Childbirth Checklist Landscape Analysis
This document includes the findings from that analysis as well as a mapping of how guidance for vaginal, assisted, and/or surgical birth overlaps, diverges, and reconnects over the care pathway.
September 23, 2025
Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
pdf English French Arabic
February 27, 2020
Social Accountability Resources and Tools
These social accountability resources and tools are intended to assist CSOs, non-governmental organizations, and government health program planners, managers and staff to identify and adapt existing guides and tools for effective social accountability strategies.
March 8, 2019
Social Behavior Change for Family Planning
Many health program and government staff would like to get the skills needed for this process—but time and resources are not available for a week(s) long training. This curriculum can share these useful skills without requiring a lot of time or resources.
August 10, 2017
Social Mobilization: Lessons from the CORE Group Polio Project in Angola, Ethiopia, and India
This report places CGPP within the context of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) that began in 1988, defines and describes three varieties of social mobilization, and presents as case examples CGPP’s successful social mobilization work in India, Angola, and Ethiopia.
August 9, 2017
Stories without an Ending
The purpose of this guide is to help organizations involved in community programs to develop and use SWE.
September 23, 2025
Strengthening Gender Based Violence Referral and Response Pathways
USAID’s MOMENTUM Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics project, implemented by EngenderHealth, received funding through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to implement activities through a Gender Integrated Response to Emerging COVID 19 Priorities in India. This work addressed the critical need for strengthening gender-based violence (GBV) response and prevention mechanisms at district, community, and facility levels.
Strengthening nutrition humanitarian action: Supporting humanitarian cluster/sector coordination transition
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May 30, 2019
Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
pdf English
March 4, 2020
Support to Contraceptive Social Marketing in the Philippines, Performance and Prospects
In May 2005, USAID/Philippines commissioned an external team (hereafter ‘the Team’), provided through the PSP-One project and USAID/Washington, to: evaluate DKT’s performance to date under the current CA; propose a strategy for future support to social marketing in the Philippines.
October 2, 2025
Supporting Communities of Practice: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
This is the first in a series of quick guides produced by the Technical and Operational Performance Support (TOPS) Program to improve knowledge sharing and program learning by development practitioners.
August 9, 2017
Taking Care of a Baby at Home After Birth: What Families Need to Do
This material is meant for outreach to pregnant women and their families with poor access to health services.
August 10, 2017
Technical Brief – Addressing overweight and obesity in LMICs: Roles and recommendations for non-governmental organizations and program implementers
ORGANIZATION CORE Group YEAR PUBLISHED 2022 DESCRIPTION This technical brief shares highlights from a position paper by CORE Group’s Nutrition Working Group (NWG). The proportion of the global population experiencing overweight and obesity (OwOb) continues to increase. OwOb currently affects approximately 44% of all adults and 20% of all children 5-17 years of age, and overweight affects almost 6% of ...
March 9, 2022
The Expansion of Community-Based Tuberculosis Programming: Critical Program Design Issues for New Partners
ORGANIZATION CORE Group USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2003 DESCRIPTION Tuberculosis (TB) kills 1.5 million people each year. It is the greatest curable infectious killer worldwide. One-third of the world’s population is infected with the TB bacterium and nearly 9 million people become sick with active TB each year. This document outlines nine project-design challenges most likely to face those working at ...
March 3, 2020
The HEARTH Model for Community-based Nutritional Rehabilitation: What it is and What it’s Not
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The Household and Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Framework
The purpose of this guide is to assist NGOs, Ministries of Health, and bilateral and multi-lateral organizations in implementing a two and a half day workshop on Household and Community IMCI.
February 24, 2020
The Integration of Vitamin A Supplementation into Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin: A Practical Guide for Africa
pdf English French
February 26, 2020
The Mortality Assessment for Health Programs (MAP) System
pdf English Spanish Recommended citation: Purdy C., Weiss, W., Perry H. The Mortality Assessment for Health Programs (MAP) System: An NGO Field Manual for Registering Vital Events and Assessing Child Survival Outcomes Using the Care Group Model. 1st Edition. January 2013. Washington, D.C: CORE Group.
August 9, 2017
The Potential of Private Sector Midwives in Reaching Millennium Development Goals
This paper explores the potential for private-sector midwives to provide services beyond their traditional scope of care during pregnancies and births to address shortcomings in LDCs’ ability to reach MDGs.
October 2, 2025
The Role of Private Provider Networks in Expanding the Supply of RH/FP Services
Identify networks for technical assistance and scale-up; Invite applications for technical assistance; Welcome information about other networks; Continue to build the Network Exchange forum
The Role of Social Accountability in Improving Health Outcomes: Overview and Analysis of Selected International NGO Experiences to Advance the Field
This paper presents common themes, challenges, and recommendations to expand and bring this approach to scale in the context of health and development.
August 9, 2017
The roles and influence of grandmothers and men
This review of both published and gray literature has two objectives: (1) to examine the research on the roles and influence of grandmothers and men in family-level nutrition practices across cultures; and (2) to examine community nutrition interventions in which grandmothers and/or men have been involved in order to understand programmatic approaches used and results obtained.
September 23, 2025
Two Promising Social Accountability Approaches to Improve Health in Malawi
This document summarizes two social accountability approaches that have been applied in Malawi for over a decade, with measurable successes.
March 8, 2019
Understanding the Business Value of Family Planning Services
Presentation: Private Midwives in the Philippines Taking the Future in their Own Hands
October 2, 2025
Unraveling the Factors Behind the Growth of the Indonesian Family Planning Private Sector
While Indonesia’s private family planning sector expanded in response to several converging factors, the government’s commitment to promoting the private sector as a source of family planning services was clearly prominent among all factors.
Updated Program Functionality Matrix for Optimizing Community Health Programs
To support the operationalization of quality CHW program design and implementation, USAID, UNICEF, the Community Health Impact Coalition, and Initiatives Inc. have updated and adapted the Community Health Worker Assessment and Improvement Matrix (CHW AIM) Program Functionality Matrix [12]. This tool can be used to identify design and implementation gaps in both small- and national-scale CHW programs, and close gaps in policy and practice.
September 23, 2025
USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines
Sector Requirements
October 2, 2025
USAID Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance Emergency Application Guidelines (Revised)
Sector Requirements (Revised)
Vaccine preventable diseases and immunization during humanitarian emergencies: challenges and lessons learned from the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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February 27, 2020
Vaccine Toolkit Implementation Guide
This implementation guide outlines factors that promote the successful use of the resource Promoting Vaccination: A Toolkit for Collaborating with Faith Communities.
October 2, 2025
Vouchers for Health: A Focus on Reproductive Health and Family Planning Services
This primer, intended for policymakers, donors, health care practitioners, and others involved in health care policy making and planning, draws on several overview papers on vouchers programs and demand-side subsidies.
WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programs
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February 27, 2020
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