An overview of the community-based integrated management of childhood illnesses (C-IMCI) framework consists of three elements and a multi-sectoral platform that focus on specific behaviors and practices of health workers and caregivers of young children. Included in this document: the history of C-IMCI’s development, its elements, benefits and rational for use.
Community Case Management Essentials: A Guide for Program Managers
Known as community case management (CCM) of sick children, this approach utilizes trained and supervised community members linked to facility-based services to deliver life-saving interventions for sick children, in partnership with their families. Health program managers are introduced to the basics and readers are guided through the process of designing and managing a high-quality CCM program.
Community-Based Family Planning eLearning Module
This Internet-based curriculum is adapted from the Basics of Community-Based Family Planning Training Curriculum. The eLearning module is used by program managers and USAID mission staff who are implementing and backstopping community-based family planning programs across the globe. This two-hour course provides participants with essential information such as community-based approaches that extend family planning services, components of community-based family planning …
Basics of Community-Based Family Planning Training Curriculum
This curriculum is designed for middle to senior level managers working in family planning (FP) or interested in integrating community-based family planning programming into their current project(s). This curriculum explains the key elements of a quality community-based family planning program and technical and programmatic concepts of FP service delivery. The facilitator’s guide, participant’s guide, and related presentations can be found in English …
The Minimum Activities for Mothers and Newborns (MAMAN) framework
MAMAN is based on the essential maternal and newborn care interventions and comprises the basic, minimum high-impact MNC interventions that should be implemented within a health program. The MAMAN framework comes with a core set of indicators, to track and report on the progress of the minimum package of maternal and newborn interventions. The framework also includes a questionnaire and …
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.
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.
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 …
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.
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 …