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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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
Tanzania Private Health Sector Assessment
Tanzania‘s National PPP Policy and HSSP II included a call for a private health sector assessment.
February 2, 2026
Tanzania Private Health Sector Lending Assessment
With increasing numbers of Tanzanians turning to the private sector for health care, private providers need financing to grow and improve their services. However, this sector is underfinanced, and banks do not lend to the sector in a significant way, thereby limiting the growth potential of private health care businesses.
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
Technology Recommendations MAMA Bangladesh
SHOPS has worked closely with MAMA Bangladesh Secretariat Dnet to assess best technology platform options to support Aponjon. This report summarizes the key activities, findings, lessons and recommendations from that effort.
February 2, 2026
The 8th African Vaccination Week Report
This report documents efforts of South Sudan’s CORE Group Polio Project (CGPP) during the 8 th African Vaccination Week (AVW) held in late April 2018. USAID provides funding for the CGPP’s immunization activities in 11 select counties in South Sudan. The brief highlights the implementation of program activities during AVW for the underserved, marginalized and hard-to-reach populations in Akobo County.
January 26, 2026
The Commercial Sector’s Role in Providing Long-acting and Permanent Methods
The report provides information about the use of long-acting and permanent methods (LAPMs) and the role of the commercial sector in their provision.
January 29, 2026
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
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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 Private Health Sector in West Africa: Six Macro-level Assessments
Recognizing that the private health sector represents a key opportunity through which African countries can work to strengthen health indicators, the United States Agency for International Development West Africa Regional Health Office (USAID WA/RHO), asked the Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project to carry out macro-level assessments of the private health sector in six focus countries.
February 2, 2026
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
October 2, 2025
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
Toolkit to Improve Private Provider Contributions to Child Health
In June 2002, the World Bank published a discussion paper titled Working with the Private Sector for Child Health. The paper – developed with technical assistance from the USAID Bureau for Africa, Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD) through the Support for Analysis and Research in Africa (SARA) project – lays out a framework for analyzing the contributions of the private sector in child heath. The framework, outlined below, is designed to serve as a basis for assessing the potential of different components of the private sector at country level.
January 27, 2026
Trends in Health Financing and the Private Health Sector in the Middle East and North Africa
Though health data from the region are scarce and outdated, available information on key health indicators shows significant improvements in recent decades.
February 2, 2026
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
Unlocking Finance for the Private Health Sector
This brief provides USAID missions and implementing partners with an overview of the challenges around the private health sector accessing finance, definitions of blended and innovative financing, information on the US International Development Finance Corporation, illustrative examples of innovative financing, and case studies on health from multiple regions.
February 2, 2026
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.
October 2, 2025
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)
Using the DHS wealth index and World Bank poverty thresholds to examine socio-economic position in the Family Planning Market Analyzer
An important consideration when thinking about the potential roles of the public and private sectors in a family planning market is a women’s ability to pay for products and services from private providers. The FP Market Analyzer allows further exploration of changes by income level using a methodology that combines analyses of absolute wealth with DHS data.
February 2, 2026
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.
Water, please!
This presentation demonstrates the magnitude of the drinking water quality problem.
January 26, 2026
West Africa Private Health Sector: Six Macro-Level Assessments
This brief is a summary of the West Africa private health sector assessment conducted by the SHOPS project. The assessment looked at six countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mauritania, Niger, and Togo.
February 2, 2026
WHO guideline on health policy and system support to optimize community health worker programs
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February 27, 2020
Youth Friendly Pharmacies and Partnerships: The CMS-CELSAM Experience
The Commercial Market Strategies project (CMS) developed a network of youth-friendly pharmacies to provide reproductive health information and contraceptives to youth in Guanajuato, Mexico.
January 29, 2026
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