INTRODUCTION TO CORE GROUP

Judy Lewis, Board Chair, CORE Group

Karen LeBan, Executive Director, CORE Group

Tom Davis, Chief Program Officer Feed the Children

Janine Schooley, Sr. VP for Programs, PCI

Dennis Cherian, Sr. Director of Health, HIV and AIDS, World Vision, Inc.

Innovative Approaches to Achieve Primary Health Care Outcomes

SDGs

• End poverty • End hunger, improve nutrition and promote

sustainable agriculture• Attain healthy lives • Provide quality education and life-long learning

opportunities • Attain gender equality, empower women and

girls • Ensure availability and sustainable use of water

and sanitation

Innovative Approaches to PHC

• Care Groups—mothers providing health education and behavior change in households

• Reference Guide: Developing & Strengthening Community Health Workers at Scale

• Economic and social empowerment in change: women’s empowerment groups

• Citizen Voice and Action (CVA): transforming unjust systems and structures

Foundation: Informal beginning 1997—identified need by health professionals and NGOs to work together

History: 2001 incorporated

25 NGOs receiving USAID Child Survival grants

USAID funded collaboration and knowledge sharing

Vision: Communities where everyone can attain health and well-being.

Mission: To improve and expand community health practices for underserved populations, especially women and children, through collaborative action and learning.

Without CORE Group…Organizations struggle to make lasting impact.

Realities of the field

With CORE Group…resources go further and work better.

Expanding membership to include NGOs outside US

Secretariat model—multi-sector, multi-organizational. Focus polio but expanded to MNCH– Angola– Ethiopia– India – South Sudan

54• International

NGO Members

26 • Associate Organizations

30 • Individual Associates

As of January 2014

CORE Group

Global Policy & Advocacy

Global Health Initiatives

Program Learning & Diffusion

Community Health Network

Technical Working Groups

&Practitioner Academy

70+ Members & Associates Collectively Reaching 720 Million People Worldwide

Coordination & Collaboration

Building Partnerships

Working Groups:

Community Child Health

HIV/AIDS

Malaria

Monitoring & Evaluation

Nutrition

Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health

Social & Behavior Change

Tuberculosis

Interest Groups:

Adolescent Health & Wellbeing

Immunization

Maternal Mental Health

mHealth

Non-Communicable Diseases

Diffusion of

Program Learning

Website &

Listservs

Social Media

Webinars

Joint Products

Trainings

& SOTAS

Semi-Annual

Meetings

CORE Group

Scaling Up Nutrition

Roll Back Malaria

Partnership

PMNCHChild

Survival C2A

Global Partnerships &

Leadership

A world of healthy communities, where no woman or child dies of preventable causes.

MNCH

Care Group Model

CCM Essentials

Guide & Graphic

C-IMCI Framework

Taking Care of Baby Flipbook

Nutrition

Essential Nutrition

Actions (ENA)

Nutrition Program Design

Assistant (NPDA)

Positive Deviance /Hearth

Guide

M & E

Knowledge, Practice,

Coverage (KPC)

Training Manual

Lot Quality Assurance Sampling

(LQAS)

Guide

Partnership Defined

Quality (PDQ)

Guide

Behavior Change

Designing for Behavior

Change (DBC)

Curriculum

Barrier Analysis

Guide

TB

Community-Based TB

Programming

Guide

Program Planning & Technical Resources

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