To generate key lessons, Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Malawi have conducted assessments of their programs related to community case management (CCM) of childhood illness programs. The CCM programs in all three countries included the treatment of three major childhood illnesses by community health workers: diarrheal disease, malaria and pneumonia. For this report, each country’s CCM assessment was …
Strengthening Health Management Information Systems for Maternal and Child Health: Documenting MCHIP’s Contributions
As part of it its efforts to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care in low-income countries, MCHIP has taken specific steps to improve the monitoring of MNCH services through strengthening routine HMIS. These efforts have led to better monitoring and evaluation, higher-quality data, and informed decision-making in 28 countries across MNCH interventions. Ongoing efforts to …
Scaling Up Lifesaving Commodities for Women, Children, and Newborns
This toolkit provides information about the UN Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children, its 13 priority commodities , and examples of how its ten recommendations to improve access and availability are being applied globally and within countries.
The Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) of Childhood Illness Task Force: Fact Sheet
Fact sheet on the iCCM Task Force, an association of multilateral and bilateral agencies and non-governmental organizations, working to promote integrated community level management of childhood illness. (MCHIP provides secretariat support to the Task Force.)
Child Survival and Health Grants Program—Contributing to Emerging Priorities in Maternal and Newborn Health
USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program has supported 29 grants to international nongovernmental organizations focusing on maternal and newborn health (MNH) since about 2005. The objective of this paper is to recommend a five-year prospective learning strategy for this MNH portfolio.
Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance (brochure)
Survive and Thrive: Professional Associations, Private Sector and Global Health Scholars Saving Mothers, Newborns and Children is a unique and historic global development alliance (GDA) to improve survival rates for women and children around the world. The alliance will mobilize U.S. obstetric, pediatric and midwifery professional associations alongside the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), private sector, and civil society …
Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs demonstrate plausible evidence of child mortality impact
Co-authored by MCHIP staff, this article was published in Health Policy and Planning and presents the results of an analysis of 12 community-based projects implemented by nongovernmental organizations worldwide. The projects are funded through USAID’s Child Survival and Health Grants Program to which MCHIP gives technical support. All 12 projects substantially increased coverage of multiple high-impact interventions. LiST analyses showed …
Strengthening Health Management Information Systems for Maternal and Child Health: Documenting MCHIP’s Contributions
As part of it its efforts to improve the quality of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) care in low-income countries, MCHIP has taken specific steps to improve the monitoring of MNCH services through strengthening routine HMIS. These efforts have led to better monitoring and evaluation, higher-quality data, and informed decision-making in 28 countries across MNCH interventions. Ongoing efforts to …
Special CCM Supplement in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Containing 20 studies that address 16 research questions, experiences in 11 countries, and key global issues in CCM, the Supplement includes a wide variety of CCM related topics such as scaling up CCM, use and retention of community health workers, and supply chain and logistics. Click here to download the Supplement for free. This supplement was made possible by the generous support …
Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illness: Documentation of Best Practices and Bottlenecks to Program Implementation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
With five years of experience (2005–2010) in a very challenging context, the DRC strategy offers a number of lessons to other countries that are interested in either implementing iCCM for the first time or expanding their current programs. By identifying the successes and best practices of the DRC approach, by describing its weaknesses in order to correct and prevent them, …