CORE Group: Working Together in Health for Mothers, Children and Communities

Thursday, February 16, 2017

CORE Group's Reproductive, Newborn, and Adolescent Health Working Group.

Women in countries affected by conflict or crisis lack adequate access to basic health services which would otherwise save and improve lives. What is the current understanding of and global standard for responding to this need? Is the Minimum Initial Service Package enough? Do women and newborns have access to these resources? Where are the gaps? What can various stakeholders ...Read More

Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Clean, Fed, and Nutured and CORE Group.

A growing body of evidence supports the notion that integrated programs addressing nutrition and stimulation provide stronger impacts on nutritional and developmental outcomes than either intervention alone. When translating evidence into practice, several advantages and challenges for integration can be noted. Combined interventions may be more efficient than separate interventions, because they are intended for the same population and make ...Read More

Thursday, February 2, 2017

CORE Group’s Nutrition Working Group.

This webinar facilitated a discussion on intersectoral nutrition sensitive strategies to address the double burden, introduced the concept, raised awareness of why this is a looming crisis, and gave an overview of what the global community of practice in food and nutrition security may be able to do to address it. The audience learned about this looming global crisis: the ...Read More

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

This webinar highlighted two recently completed case studies prepared by the USAID’s Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) on pro-equity RMNCH programming. Senior Program Officer, Tanvi Monga and Community Health and Civil Society Advisor, David Shanklin shared information from Bangladesh and Honduras to illustrate how RMNCH programs can be designed, implemented and measured to lower barriers to public health services ...Read More

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

The 2016 Health Systems Research Symposium was held in Vancouver, Canada, upon the theme of “Resilient and Responsive Health Systems for a Changing World.” This event is mainly organized by Health Systems Global (HSG) every two years. HSG is one of the first international membership organizations fully dedicated to promoting health systems research and knowledge translation. HSG currently has over ...Read More

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

Dyness Kasungami-Matoba of the Maternal and Child Survival Program and Tanya Guenther of Save the Children shared he new iCCM indicators with participants on the Working Group call and solicited feedback on them.  Presentation Overview of Recommended Routine Indicators for iCCM Adobe Connect Webinar | RecordingRead More

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Achieving the SDG targets for women’s and children’s health will require quality sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services that can reach all those who need them. How can the movement for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) be aligned with the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health to prioritise these essential services? This webinar from Save the ...Read More

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Journal Article Behaviour Centered Design: towards an applied science of behaviour change SBC Journal Club Presentation Slides Adobe Connect Webinar Recording with DiscussionRead More

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

Outcome Harvesting is a participatory monitoring and evaluation method that enables users to identify, verify, and make sense of outcomes with or without reference to predetermined objectives. Outcome Harvesting considers relationships between actors and factors in a system when determining plausible contribution of social change agents to outcomes. Grace Awantang of the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs (CCP) discussed ...Read More

Thursday, October 6, 2016

the CORE Group

In an in-person event at FHI 360, Dr. Frongillo shared his current research and findings exploring indicators beyond stunting to measure outcomes and impacts of integrated nutrition, health, and ECD interventions, building upon a symposium he presented last year in Washington DC and his recent publication in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Black povided key ...Read More

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

The Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) is a practitioner-friendly poverty measurement tool for organizations whose missions are to serve the poor. The PPI leverages the responses to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership and computes the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line – or above by only a narrow margin. With the ...Read More

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

The Progress out of Poverty Index (PPI) is a practitioner-friendly poverty measurement tool for organizations whose missions are to serve the poor. The PPI leverages the responses to 10 questions about a household’s characteristics and asset ownership and computes the likelihood that the household is living below the poverty line – or above by only a narrow margin. With the ...Read More

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

CORE Group and the United States Agency for International Development.

The Acting on the Call report, released in 2014, lays out a roadmap in 24 priority countries to scale up proven, life-saving interventions that can save 15 million children and 600,000 women by 2020. The 2016 Acting on the Call report provides an update on progress in 24 countries and details how by targeting efforts on the poorest 40% we ...Read More

Thursday, August 4, 2016

CORE Group's Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health Working Group.

During this webinar, the Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Working Group Co-Chairs presented and discussed key takeaways from the Women Deliver conference held in May in Copenhagen and the recent World Health Assembly, also held in May. As Women Deliver coincided with the CORE Group Spring Global Health Practitioner Conference, many RMNAH members were in Copenhagen and will review new ...Read More

Thursday, June 23, 2016

CORE Group's Social and Behavior Change (SBC) Working Group and the Food Security and Nutrition Network's SBC Task Force.

In this webinar, Nicole Weber shared her experiences using the manual: Make Me a Change Agent: A Multisectoral SBC Resource for Community Workers and Field Staff with Care Group Volunteers and staff in the DRC. Jenn Weiss and Mary DeCoster told the story of the making of the manual – a multi-year collaboration of many members of the CORE Group SBC Working ...Read More

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

CORE Group's Social and Behavior Change Working Group.

The African Farmer Game (www.africanfarmergame.org) is a computer-based simulation designed to give players the experience of living as a small farmer in Sub-Saharan Africa, where they must make complex decisions about their domestic and agricultural practices, household nutrition, and marketing and related livelihood activities in an uncertain and risk-prone environment. In this webinar, creators of the game presented the latest ...Read More

Thursday, June 2, 2016

CORE Group and CORDS (Connection Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance).

Frontline experts presented key findings and action recommendations on surveillance, diagnosis, and treatment of visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis from the Leishmaniasis Gap Analysis Report and Action Plan facilitated by Connecting Organizations for Regional Surveillance (CORDS) with its partners and networks in Albania, Jordan, and Pakistan.  Lessons learned were used to catalyse discussions on current treatment and response challenges to Zika and ...Read More

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

This webinar presented some research and programmatic findings on the role of wild foods as a health and dietary practice. Wild, or indigenous foods, have long been a “hidden harvest” for many populations across Africa, undetected and underemphasized by international development organizations as well as government nutrition initiatives. Women and children in particular are often tasked with collecting and preparing ...Read More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

CORE Group's Zika Coordinated Response Group.

The mosquito-borne Zika virus has spread explosively throughout Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months. There has been a concurrent increase in birth defects and neurological disorders in Zika affected areas. The rapidly evolving research indicates there is evidence of an association with Zika virus infection during pregnancy, leading WHO to declare a public health emergency. PAHO, WHO, and ...Read More

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

In the last few years, there has been rising interest in and use of dietary diversity indicators, which provide one relatively simple proxy measure for micronutrient density or adequacy of diets. Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization and USAID’s Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance III Project have supported development of a new indicator and guide: Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: ...Read More