CORE Group members are valuable partners for other actors in the maternal and child health arena. In addition to their strong desire for collaborative work and their long-standing ties to communities, CORE members bring high-level technical skills and critical resources to their work. CORE Group members routinely engage in rigorous testing of new methodologies while sharing what they have learned …
Maternal and Newborn Standards and Indicators Compendium
The compendium is designed to assist program designers working for nongovernmental organizations to develop high-quality programs focused on women and children, to select the essential components and actions for their chosen interventions, and to select appropriate indicators. The tool addresses the temporal phases of a woman’s reproductive cycle from the household level to secondary care in facilities: pre-conception/ inter-conception, antenatal, …
Flexible Fund Family Planning Survey
This population-based survey serves as the baseline decision-making tool for PVO/NGO projects working in community-based family planning and includes a wide variety of indicators family-planning-related indicators. The indicators have been harmonized with the DHS and reflect international standards, and are built off the KPC model. The tool includes interviewer instructions, a women’s and men’s questionnaire, and tabulation plans. The survey …
Partnership-Defined Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
This handy toolkit is meant to assist PDQ practitioners with tools such as sample exit interviews and checklists to complement Save the Children’s PDQ Manual and PDQ Facilitator’s Guide. The toolkit also includes a Youth Annex for youth-focused PDQ projects to complement the PDQ for the Youth Manual. One unique element of the document is that tested indicators for community …
Training in Qualitative Research Methods: Training Curriculum for Building the Capacity of PVO, NGO and MOH Partners
This training is designed to help PVOs improve the quality of their qualitative research in order to make more informed programming decisions for their child survival projects.
The Rapid Health Facility Assessment (R-HFA)
The R-HFA was originally designed for use by nongovernmental organizations within the Child Survival and Health Grants Program, but as the Malaria Booster Initiative experience has shown, it is also suitable for use by District Health Management Teams. It is a relatively rapid instrument for measuring a small set of key indicators to give a “balanced scorecard” for maternal, newborn …
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling Guidance: FAQs
The LQAS FAQ document was produced by the CORE Group Monitoring and Evaluation working group as a result of a technical advisory group (TAG) meeting held in August 2008, in which practitioners developed new guidelines for parallel sampling in order to improve the quality of monitoring and evaluation efforts.
Lot Quality Assurance: Protocol for Parallel Sampling
CORE Group’s Monitoring and Evaluation Working Group developed several guidance documents to help program managers implement a Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) parallel sampling methodology. The methodology enables the efficient collection of information from different sampling groups in the same area at the same time with an adequate sample size for each indicator.
Knowledge, Practice and Coverage Tool
The Knowledge, Practice and Coverage survey tool (KPC) is designed to be used for rapid small population household surveys for integrated programs that are linked to communities. It is a flexible tool that allows for surveys to be tailored to various technical areas and combination of areas, while maintaining standards for collection of information for specific interventions. The KPC is …
Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness/Community Planning and Response Curriculum
Partners in the Humanitarian Pandemic Preparedness (H2P) Initiative were able to use developed training curricula for community planning and response in order to minimize morbidity and mortality. The curriculum has separate tracks for district/community leaders and for first responders (community volunteers and workers) at the community level. In addition, comprehensive emergency preparedness and response planning guidance and templates developed for …