Wednesday, December 9, 2015

CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group

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

Monday, November 16, 2015

the CORE Group and USAID

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

Wednesday, July 1, 2015

the CORE Group

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

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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

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

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

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

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

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Based on the private sector’s consumer product testing methods, The Manoff Group developed Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to enhance the voice of potential program participants in its formative research on young child feeding in Indonesia 40 years ago. Based on the wealth of insights provided by this method, TIPs is now widely used by many organizations to explore a ...Read More

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Based on the private sector’s consumer product testing methods, The Manoff Group developed Trials of Improved Practices (TIPs) to enhance the voice of potential program participants in its formative research on young child feeding in Indonesia 40 years ago. Based on the wealth of insights provided by this method, TIPs is now widely used by many organizations to explore a ...Read More

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

the CORE Group SBC Working Groups

During this webinar, presenters shared the results of CORE Group and WI-HER LLC’s TOPS-funded Enhancing Nutrition and Food Security during the First 1000 Days through Gender-Sensitive Social and Behavioral Change Technical Resource Guide and Technical Brief. These materials were designed to strengthen the capacity of development practitioners working in nutrition and food security to plan, implement, and evaluate gender-sensitive social and behavioral change (SBC) programming ...Read More

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

the CORE Group SBC & Nutrition Working Groups

During this webinar, Amy shared the results of her research on a nutrition toolkit consisting of a demarcated feeding bowl, slotted spoon, and accompanying pictorial counseling card for use during the first 1000 days to improve maternal and child nutrition.  In India and Kenya, this simple feeding toolkit demonstrated high acceptability, feasibility, and the potential to improve nutrition of mothers during ...Read More

Monday, February 2, 2015

the CORE Group Nutrition Working Group

World Vision has been implementing PD/Hearth since 1999. In 2010, an evaluation was conducted in 8 countries across Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Overall, results from the evaluation showed that countries with stronger implementation of technical components had better results. This emphasized need for stronger technical preparation and support throughout the program. WV decided to improve the quality of PD/Hearth ...Read More

Thursday, January 8, 2015

the CORE Group Social & Behavior Change and Nutrition Working Groups

The CORE Group Nutrition and Social and Behavior Change Working Groups, in collaboration with the USAID WASHplus Project, hosted a one-hour webinar on multi-sectoral approaches to improve child growth and development; with a focus on improving the community knowledge of practice and sharing integration efforts for ECD, nutrition and WASH integration. The Clean, Fed & Nurtured community of practice explained ...Read More

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

the CORE Group Social & Behavior Change and Nutrition Working Groups

In light of the Ebola outbreaks in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the Nutrition and SBC Working Groups are delighted to offer a webinar on Ebola and nutrition. A panel of diverse speakers has been assembled to provide updates and activities related to programming adjustments, guidance notes and research needs and Social and Behavior Change Communication.  *TO DOWNLOAD THE MATERIALS & ...Read More

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

the Supply Chain Management Sub group of the iCCM task force

Data from the community level is crucial to inform resupply of CHWs and to allow for appropriate management of products and quantification. But can we facilitate recording and reporting without overburdening the CHWs?  Are you interested in learning more about how to design or redesign resupply tools for CHWs? The presenters of this webinar showcased a set of generic supply ...Read More

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

the CORE Group HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis Working Groups

 In high HIV and TB burden settings, 6% – 15% of maternal mortality is attributed to TB. In Africa, three times as many women as men are dying from HIV-associated TB. Globally, only 66% of all TB cases are detected or reported. These challenges call for refined sustainable approaches to find missing persons with TB and ensure quality care. WHO’s ...Read More

Monday, June 30, 2014

the CORE Group Community Child Health Working Group

Social capital has become one of the most popular sociological concepts to be studied in public health; however, little is known about the relationship between social capital and health care utilization in low- and middle-income countries.  Using a multilevel framework, Dr. Story presented evidence from India demonstrating that social capital operates at the community level in association with maternal and ...Read More

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Hesperian Health Guides

Using informative images in print materials and digital communications can greatly enhance and improve health messages – making information more accessible and inviting across languages and literacy levels. It can be challenging for content and curriculum developers to conceptualize effective images and include them in a way that compliments and adds meaning and clarity to text. Hesperian Health Guides, publisher ...Read More

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

This session was an activity of the Community Child Health Working Group. The presentation provided an overview of core concepts of the science of child development. It then presented a model for how this scientific knowledge base can be applied as a framework for guiding program and policy strategy and concluded with an introduction to how the science is driving an ...Read More

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Getting the right quantities of products to community health workers (CHWs) to treat sick children is critical to the success of CCM. Quantification is the first step in ensuring CHWs have the products they need when they need them. This webinar provided program managers with a general overview of the quantification process for CCM, focusing on some of the unique ...Read More

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ensuring access: Targeting historically marginalized groups into mainstream HIV/AIDS programming, the experience of Handicap International’s work with people with disabilities in Sub-Sahara Africa and South East Asia Based on the World Report on Disability (2011 by WHO/World Bank), estimating that 15% of the world’s population lives with disabilities, it is no longer possible to ignore one of the largest minorities ...Read More

Thursday, August 29, 2013

Mobile technology offers a lot of opportunities for supply chain management in community health programs. Through the use of this simple technology we can improve communication between CHWs and their resupply points/supervisors, increase the visibility of data for decision makers and address stock shortages quickly plus more. This second webinar presented by the Supply Chain Management Subgroup of the CCM ...Read More