Summary of proceedings from a technical advisory group meeting to discuss community health worker (CHW) performance at scale. Participants from 13 organizations attended the meeting to discuss the design and management of CHW programs at the community, district, and national levels in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The meeting focused on considering effective community health work and the larger system in which CHWs function.
Taking the Long View: A Practical Guide to Sustainability Planning and Measurement in Community-Oriented Health Programming
Manual and Annexes to assist project managers, planners and evaluators in their efforts to improve their approach to planning for and assessing sustainability in health projects implemented in developing countries. The manual represents the collective learning of more than 30 projects that have applied and helped refine its contents over a seven-year period, many of them Child Survival Health Grants …
Technical inputs, enhancements and applications of the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)
A supplement from the journal BMC Public Health that contains 37 articles that provide reviews and analyses of assumptions and methods used in LiST, and several papers comparing the outputs from LiST to measured mortality reductions. The supplement can be found here.
Barrier Analysis Facilitator’s Guide
Tool for improving behavior change communication in child survival and community development programs. This Facilitator’s Guide has been written for trainers to teach others about Barrier Analysis and/or to learn the technique themselves. It guides trainers through a step-by-step process for conducting the analysis and provides background information on the technique as well as some basic information on behavior change …
Designing for Behavior Change
This field-tested, six-day training package will enable private voluntary organizations and partners to replicate the BEHAVE workshops conducted with CORE Group members in multiple countries and regions around the globe. The manual consolidates handouts and facilitator materials with easy-to-use training guidelines.
The Care Group Difference: A Guide to Mobilizing Community-Based Volunteer Health Educators
This guide explores the evidence base for the Care Group model, offers criteria to assist project managers in determining the feasibility of using this approach within their own programs, and provides a step-by-step guide for starting and sustaining care groups.
Scale and Scaling Up: A CORE Group Background Paper on Scaling Up Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Services
This paper briefly summarizes definitions, approaches and challenges to achieving “scale” in community-focused health programs, as discussed at the 2005 CORE spring meeting and the USAID CSHGP mini-university. This paper is meant to harmonize a vocabulary for use by NGOs and their partners as they further discuss, debate and analyze how NGOs and their partners can reach more people with …
Reaching Communities for Child Health: Advancing Health Outcomes through Multi-Sectoral Approaches
The purpose of this paper is to explore how multi-sectoral approaches are used within community-based child health and development programs and the evidence-base to support that use. The paper seeks to answer three questions: 1) how do NGOs define a multi-sectoral platform; 2) how do NGOs implement a multi-sectoral platform to achieve better or more sustainable health outcomes; and 3) …
Partnership-Defined Quality Facilitation Guide
The PDQ process engages communities and health care providers to work together in defining, implementing and monitoring activities intended to improve the quality of care. This facilitation guide is designed as a training supplement for the PDQ manual. The guide will enable the facilitator to conduct a PDQ training that will enhance the participants’ understanding of when and how PDQ …
Barrier Analysis Facilitator’s Guide
Tool for improving behavior change communication in child survival and community development programs. This Facilitator’s Guide has been written for trainers to teach others about Barrier Analysis and/or to learn the technique themselves. It guides trainers through a step-by-step process for conducting the analysis and provides background information on the technique as well as some basic information on behavior change …