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CORE Group, in collaboration with multiple partner and member organizations, has produced a range of state-of-the-art tools, curriculums and technical resources.
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 …
Find out more »A Partnership Model for Public Health: Five Variables for Productive Collaboration
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Find out more »A Practical Guide to Conducting a Barrier Analysis
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Find out more »A Sustainability Review of BHR/PVC-Funded Child Survival Projects in Bangladesh and Bolivia from 1985-1997: What’s Left after All These Years?
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
AFP Case Detection and Status of Surveillance in Pastoralist and Semi-pastoralist Communities of CORE Group Polio Project Implementation Districts (woredas) in Ethiopia
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Find out more »Better Together: Linking Family Planning and Community Health for Health Equity and Impact
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Find out more »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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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
Can we halt health workforce deterioration in failed states? Insights from Guinea-Bissau on the nature, persistence and evolution of its HRH crisis.
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Find out more »Care Groups: A Training Manual for Program Design and Implementation
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Find out more »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) ... Find out more »
Child Survival Collaborations and Resources Group Benefits Survey for CORE Members
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Find out more »Community Approaches to Child Health in Cameroon—Applying the C-IMCI Framework
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Find out more »Community event based surveillance for ebola virus disease in Sierra Leone: Implementation of a National Level System During a Crisis
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Find out more »Community Health Committees and Health Facility Management Committees: Program Functionality Assessment Toolkit
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence for child mortality impact
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
Complexity-Aware Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Social and Behavior Change Interventions
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Find out more »CORE Group Country Collaboration Model: Development of a National Community Participation Policy in Cambodia
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Find out more »CORE Group Country Collaboration Model: Joint NGO Implementation of Community-Based Treatment of Malaria in Rwanda
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Find out more »Designing for Behavior Change: For Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Health and Nutrition
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Find out more »Designing Participatory Meetings and Brownbags: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
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Find out more »Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers
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Find out more »Drop by Drop: The NGO Contribution to the Polio Eradication Initiative in Angola
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Find out more »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
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Find out more »Emergency Toolkit for Food Security and Nutrition Protection: Cholera Disease Preparedness Community Group Module
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Find out more »Enhancing AFP Surveillances in Ethiopia Somali Region: Some Good Practices in the Implementation of BMGF Supported Project
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Find out more »Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security during the First 1,000 Days through Gender-sensitive Social and Behavior Change
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Find out more »Essential Nutrition Actions and Essential Hygiene Actions Framework
ORGANIZATION USAID YEAR PUBLISHED 2015 DESCRIPTION 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. As such, partners are now promoting the framework …
Find out more »Exploring the influence of the Global Fund and the GAVI Alliance on health systems in conflict-affected countries
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Find out more »Health in fragile and post-conflict states: a review of current understanding and challenges ahead
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Find out more »Health Systems Strengthening and Conflict Transformation in Fragile States
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Find out more »How Social Capital in Community Systems Strengthens Health Systems: People, Structures, Processes
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Find out more »Humanitarian-development nexus: nutrition policy and programming in Kenya
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Find out more »Innovative Community-based Interventions to Improve Newborn Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
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Find out more »Integrating MIYCN initiatives across sectors in Dadaab refugee camps in Kenya
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Find out more »International Roundtable on Health Systems Strengthening in Fragile Settings
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Find out more »Knowledge, Practice, Coverage (KPC) Survey Training Curriculum
pdf KPC TOST Trainer’s Guide KPC TOST Trainer’s Guide Module 1 KPC TOST Trainer’s Guide Module 2 KPC TOST Trainer’s Guide Module 3
Find out more »Knowledge, Practices, and Coverage Survey 2000+ FIELD GUIDE
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Find out more »Living through conflict and post-conflict: experiences of health workers in northern Uganda and lessons for people-centred health systems.
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Find out more »Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS): Protocol for Parallel Sampling & Guidance FAQs
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Find out more »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 …
Find out more »Make Me a Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
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 ... Find out more »
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) ... Find out more »
Newborn Tracking for Polio birth dose vaccination in Pastoralist and Semi-pastoralist CORE Group Polio Project Implementation Districts (Woredas) in Ethiopia
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Find out more »Nutrition Program Design Assistant: A Tool for Program Planners, Version 2
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Find out more »Partnering with Grandmothers and Healers to Eliminate the “Disease of Dust” in Senegal A Case Study in Community-Based Tuberculosis Control
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Find out more »Partnership-Define Quality (PDQ) Facilitation Guide & PDQ Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
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Find out more »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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Find out more »Positive Deviance/Hearth Approach
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
Primary Health Care: A Redefinition, History, Trends, Controversies and Challenges
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Find out more »Reaching Communities for Child Health: Advancing Health Outcomes through Multi-Sectoral Approaches
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Find out more »REALIZE: Social and Behavioral Change for Gender Equity and Diversity
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
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 ... Find out more »
Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers
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Find out more »Round Table on Social Accountability Malawi, September 2018: Report and Suggestions Moving Forward
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Find out more »Scaling-up the Community-Based Health Workforce for Emergencies
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Find out more »Social Behavior Change for Family Planning
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Find out more »Social Mobilization: Lessons from the CORE Group Polio Project in Angola, Ethiopia, and India
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Find out more »Strengthening nutrition humanitarian action: Supporting humanitarian cluster/sector coordination transition
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Find out more »Successful polio eradication in Uttar Pradesh, India: the pivotal contribution of the Social Mobilization Network, an NGO/UNICEF collaboration
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Find out more »Supporting Communities of Practice: A TOPS Quick Guide to Linking Development Practitioners
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Find out more »Taking Care of a Baby at Home After Birth: What Families Need to Do
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Find out more »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 ... Find out more »
The Expansion of Community-Based Tuberculosis Programming: Critical Program Design Issues for New Partners
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Find out more »The HEARTH Model for Community-based Nutritional Rehabilitation: What it is and What it’s Not
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Find out more »The Household and Community Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Framework
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Find out more »The Integration of Vitamin A Supplementation into Community-Directed Treatment with Ivermectin: A Practical Guide for Africa
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Find out more »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.
Find out more »The Role of Social Accountability in Improving Health Outcomes: Overview and Analysis of Selected International NGO Experiences to Advance the Field
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Find out more »Two Promising Social Accountability Approaches to Improve Health in Malawi
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Find out more »Vaccine preventable diseases and immunization during humanitarian emergencies: challenges and lessons learned from the Eastern Mediterranean Region
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Find out more »WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programs
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