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

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.

August 10, 2017

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

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.

February 24, 2020

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-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-Aware Monitoring

This discussion note outlines general principles and promising approaches for monitoring complex aspects of USAID development assistance.

September 23, 2025

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.

Emergency Supply Chain Playbook: Overview, User, and Quick Guides

Guides

October 2, 2025

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 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.

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.

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.

Family Planning Health India Market Description

FHM Engage India Workplan Annexure

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.

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.

Integrating Breast Cancer Screening into FP/RH Women’s Outreach

Presentation on the Private Sector Project for Women’s Health Jordan 2005-2010

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

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.

August 9, 2017

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 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 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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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 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.

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.