M&E Working Group Show & Tell – Outcome Harvesting

Date

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

Summary

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

Clean, Fed, and Nurtured: Indicators for Child Growth and Development

Date

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Presented by

the CORE Group

Summary

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

M&E Working Group Show & Tell – Progress out of Poverty Index

Date

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

Summary

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

M&E Working Group Show & Tell – Progress out of Poverty Index

Date

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's M&E Working Group.

Summary

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

USAID’s 2016 Acting on the Call Report

Date

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group and the United States Agency for International Development.

Summary

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

Women’s Health Matters! Updates from Women Deliver and World Health Assembly

Date

Thursday, August 4, 2016

Presented by

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

Summary

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

Make Me a Change Agent

Date

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Presented by

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

Summary

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

African Farmer Game

Date

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's Social and Behavior Change Working Group.

Summary

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

Gap Analysis of Leishmaniasis Detection, Prevention, and Response – Lessons Learned for Vector-Borne Diseases

Date

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Presented by

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

Summary

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

The Use of Wild/Indigenous Foods for Dietary and Health Practices

Date

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

Summary

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

Zika Virus: Technical Updates

Date

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's Zika Coordinated Response Group.

Summary

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

Minimum Dietary Diversity for Women: A Guide to Measurement

Date

Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

Summary

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

Introduction and Scale-Up of Chlorhexidine for Umbilical Cord Care

Date

Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group

Summary

Each year 3 million newborns die globally, and infection causes approximately 15% of these deaths. Poor hygiene and lack of antisepsis at birth and in the first week of life increases the risk of deadly but preventable infections. Ensuring optimal cord care, including use of chlorhexidine, is a crucial strategy to prevent life-threatening sepsis and cord infections and avert preventable ...Read More

Link NCA Methodology for Nutrition Causal Analysis

Date

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

Summary

Since 2010, Action Contre la Faim and a scientific committee led by a small group of researchers (Tufts, IRD, WFP) and technical experts have collaborated to develop a methodology to analyze the complex, dynamic, locally-specific causes of undernutrition. The Link NCA methodology for Nutrition Causal Analysis is a mixed-methods, structured, participatory methodology. Community-level qualitative enquiry sheds light on context-specific causes ...Read More

Qualitative Approach to Identify Illlness Recognition and Care-Seeking Practices

Date

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group's M&E Working Group

Summary

During this webinar, Alfonso Rosales discussed the lack of systematic evidence as to how women and families identify maternal/newborn complications, the factors behind decision making to seek care, or the role of cultural beliefs as drivers of individual decisions, perceptions, ideas, and behavior. This area needs more exploration to understand what drives decisions (both facilitators and barriers) at family and ...Read More

The EquityTool

Date

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Presented by

CORE Group

Summary

Government and donor-supported social programs in developing countries prioritize serving the poor: those most in need, most at risk, or most marginalized. However, most programs never learn how well they have done, let alone being able to assess how they’re doing at the time of service provision. The EquityTool provides an easy-to-use, easy-to-interpret, free method to assess the wealth of ...Read More

Integrating Family Planning with Nutrition and Food Security

Date

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Presented by

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

Summary

Family planning and reproductive health services have been prioritized in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy 2014¬–2025 as important interventions that address the underlying and systemic causes of malnutrition. The potential for integrated approaches and solutions to complex and multifaceted development challenges is also being closely examined in the post 2015 development era with the adoption ...Read More

Acting on the Call Report

Date

Monday, November 16, 2015

Presented by

the CORE Group and USAID

Summary

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 2015 Acting on the Call report gives an update on progress and includes additional information on how USAID will reach 38 million women with increased ...Read More

Emphasis on Community Participation

Date

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Presented by

the CORE Group

Summary

Using examples from three recently evaluated Child Survival projects in Cambodia, Mozambique and Benin, and recently published literature, Paul Freeman discussed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and costs of community participation towards advocating that an emphasis on community engagement should be an essential part of all community level Child Survival programs.  In Cambodia, child and maternal nutrition (including the Hearth Approach) and ...Read More

Measurement of Social Capital

Date

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Presented by

the CORE Group M&E and Child Community Health Working Groups

Summary

Despite the growing evidence linking social capital to improvements in health and health behaviors, reliable measures of social capital are lacking in low-income countries. To accurately measure social capital in new contexts, there is a need to validate social capital survey questions in each new cultural setting. In this webinar, Dr. Story described the process of validating social capital survey ...Read More