Fall 2017

Welcome to the Member Highlights Newsletter!

CORE Group is proud of the many accomplishments of our Member Organizations, Associate Organizations, and Individual Associates, so every quarter we highlight their achievements in this newsletter. The next newsletter will go out at the end of February. Submissions are open here and will remain open until February 15, 2018.

Featured Member

Nancy TenBroek S enior Health Advisor for Asia, World Renew Nancy shares the path that led her from occupational therapy to public health, as well as her favorite parts of her jobs and World Renew's biggest contributions to global community health. Watch the full interview >>

New Reports, Studies, Guides, and Tools

Preterm Birth/Low Birth Weight Country Profiles PCI These country profiles highlight population-based survey data relevant to preterm birth and low birth weight including risk factors, service utilization and health sector readiness for 24 countries predominantly in Africa and SE Asia. Originally released in November 2015, the profiles were recently updated with new data.

Can Market Systems Development Build Resilience in Fragile Contexts? Mercy Corps To better understand where and how practitioners can apply market systems development approaches to resilience-building in fragile contexts, Mercy Corps’ research set out to assess the relationship between the two models in three MSD-focused programs in South and Southeast Asia. All three programs operated in fragile contexts characterized by weak governance, thin markets and frequent exposure to a range of economic, ecological and social shocks and stresses.

Summary of Key Approaches for Improving HIV Testing and Services for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV Catholic Relief Services This document summarizes the barriers to obtaining HIV testing and services (HTS) for children and identifies the strengths and successes of each program in linking children with services. The gaps and challenges still faced by each program inform the recommendations for improving HTS within orphan and vulnerable children programs.

Open Data Policy Compliance Guide PCI The goal of this guide is to enable PCI and its peer organizations to make their data useful, unleash the power of their data, by being good data stewards and implementing quality data management practices. The guide is also intended to facilitate compliance with USAID policy and in doing so, ultimately, help to create this vibrant open-data ecosystem.

Multisectoral Nutrition Programming: FANTA’s Accomplishments and Lessons Learned FHI 360/FANTA Scaling up evidence-based, country-led, effective, integrated nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive interventions, programs, and systems in development and emergency contexts forms the crux of FANTA’s work. This report describes how FANTA’s multisectoral nutrition programming work has improved nutrition in USAID-priority countries and offers lessons learned to inform future efforts.

Breaking the Barrier; Meeting Sex Worker Needs in Humanitarian and Low-resource Settings International Rescue Committee The IRC has implemented integrated SRH/Protection services in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya to ensure female sex-worker (FSW) have safe and confidential access to comprehensive services. To address the gap in evidence in meeting the needs of FSW in humanitarian and low resource settings, the IRC conducted a routine project evaluation of the Peer Outreach model used to increase access to services.

Concern America's "How To Teach Health" Hesperian Health Guides Hesperian and Concern America have teamed up to publish their methodology for use worldwide with "Cómo Enseñar Sobre La Salud" or "How To Teach Health." A follow-up course to "Where There Is No Doctor", the Spanish-language series has multiple levels of training with an instructor's guide and promoter handbook for each health care topic, including reproductive health, responding to accidents and traumas, and an index of essential medicines.

Brief: Moving from Pilot to Scale: Lessons Learned from the GREAT Project Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University This brief reviews the lessons learned from the Gender Roles, Equality and Transformations (GREAT) Project and offers insights into the art and science of implementing, documenting, and evaluating scale-up.

Who Breastfeeds Among Women Living in Tribal Communities in Rural Rajasthan, India? Grameen Foundation While breastfeeding is culturally accepted in India, exclusive breastfeeding rates remain low, especially as the infant increases in age. This paper, developed using baseline data from the Rajasthan Nutrition Project, assesses the factors that influence whether women breastfeed initially and exclusively for six months.

Nutrition Reference Guide Catholic Relief Services, Chemonics, CORE Group This resource guides nutrition actors in selecting the most appropriate design, research, implementation, and evaluation tools, based on their program objectives, context, and available resources. It is targeted to program designers and technical staff, as well as others working in the area of nutrition globally.

Global Hunger Index Concern Worldwide The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger at the global, regional, and national levels. The GHI raises awareness and understanding of the struggle against hunger, provides a means to compare the levels of hunger between countries and regions, and calls attention to the areas of the world in greatest need of additional resources to eliminate hunger.

Situation of Routine Immunization in Urban Poor Areas of Kisumu City, Kenya USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program A situation analysis of routine immunization (RI) in Kisumu City, Kenya was conducted to assess the immunization status of children, and to understand the challenges and barriers to access and utilization of immunization services among the urban poor. The findings of this assessment are invaluable for the development of strategies and plans to strengthen RI services and for achieving equitable coverage among different populations in Kisumu City.

CALL FOR FEEDBACK: The Social Norms Exploration Guide and Toolkit is a participatory guide and toolkit for programmers and researchers who wish to identify, explore, and diagnose social norms to inform a program of action and related measurement techniques. Interested in testing the guide? Contact info@passagesproject.org.

Recent Journal Articles

Sharing Histories—a Transformative Learning/teaching Method to Empower Community Health Workers to Support Health Behavior Change of Mothers, Future Generations, Human Resources for Health

Lipid-based Nutrient Supplementation in the First 1000 Days Improves Child Growth in Bangladesh: a Cluster-randomized Effectiveness Trial, FHI 360, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Innovative Product Development Partnership Reduced Neonatal Mortality In Nepal Through Improved Umbilical Cord Care, JSI, Health Affairs

Understanding the Menstrual Hygiene Management Challenges Facing Displaced Girls and Women: Findings from Qualitative Assessments in Myanmar and Lebanon, International Rescue Committee, Conflict and Health

An Integrated Intervention to Reduce Intimate Partner Violence and Psychological Distress with Refugees in Low-resource Settings: Study Protocol for the Nguvu Cluster Randomized Trial, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, International Rescue Committee, BMC Psychiatry

Community-based Distribution of Iron–folic Acid Supplementation in Low- and middle-income Countries: a Review of Evidence and Programme Implications, USAID's Maternal and Child Survival Program, Public Health Nutrition

Integrated Community Case Management in a Peri-urban Setting: a Qualitative Evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda, Malaria Consortium, BMC Health Services Research

Recent Blog Posts & Articles

How Agroecology Can Prevent Climate Change, World Renew

Extending the Digital Agenda in Underserved Communities, eHealth Africa

Creating Buzz: Proposing a Mosquito Emoji for Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs

eLearning Is Key for Nurse-Midwife Needing Vital Information in Zambia, Jhpiego

Attending to Neglected Tropical Diseases, Catholic Medical Mission Board

Finding Dignity and Healing After Abuse, International Medical Corps

Democratic Republic of Congo: Exposing the World's Forgotten Crisis, Concern Worldwide

Breaking Through Behavioral Challenges in Global Health, ideas42

'Dr. Clown' Comforts Children with Cancer in Tanzania, IMA World Health

Biased Views of Girls Begin as Early as Fourth Grade, Save the Children

Bikes for Better Health in Uganda, URC

Experts Discuss Extending Access to Quality Health Services in Low Income Countries, Malaria Consortium

Can Data Help Predict and Prevent Negative Health Outcomes? We Think So., Living Goods

CORE Group Members in the News

Contraception Is About Partnerships - in More Ways Than One, IntraHealth International, Huffington Post 'We'll Give You Whatever We Have:' How Organizations Are Fighting to Bring Relief to Puerto Rico, Mercy Corps, New York Magazine We Spend $9 Billion on Halloween. And a Miserable $1.5 Billion on World Hunger, Action Against Hunger, Newsweek How Minnesota's Karen Community Is Trying to Curb Its Addiction to Tobacco, WellShare International, MinnPost These Humanitarians Want to End Gender Inequality in Afghanistan, CARE, VICE Impact The Race to Save Coffee, Catholic Relief Services, The Washington Post Child Refugees Helping Others to Stay Healthy, International Medical Corps, Crisis Response Journal Learn How Your Nonprofit Can Leverage Technology for Greater Impact, Medical Teams International, Microsoft on the Issues

Recent & Upcoming Events

RECENT EVENTS

FANTA Knowledge Sharing and Dissemination Event September 6, 2017 | Washington, DC | FHI 360 FANTA hosted over 150 attendees at this event that highlighted the project’s research and multisectoral nutrition activities and innovations, and the impact of its work at the global, country, and community levels over the last six years.

SPRING Global Learning Event October 4, 2017 | Washington, DC | JSI USAID's global nutrition project convened 180 international development experts from various fields to share lessons learned, results achieved, and resources that strengthen evidence-based multi-sectoral nutrition programming.

UPCOMING EVENTS

2017 Global Health Landscape Symposium December 8, 2017 | Washington, DC | Global Health Council This one-day meeting will convene policy and program leads from global health organizations across multiple sectors and encourage crucial conversations that drill down on barriers and best practices to address changes in the global health landscape.

9th Annual CUGH Conference- Health Disparities: A Time for Action March 16 - 18, 2018 | New York, NY | Consortium of Universities in Global Health Join more than 1,700 global health faculty, students, implementers, and leaders from over 50 countries to explore the latest in global health and discuss ways in which academia, NGOs, government and the private sector can address the global health challenges before us.

Global Health Practitioner Conference June 4 - 7, 2018 | Bethesda, MD | CORE Group Join us to discuss emerging challenges and gaps in community health, and explore tools and interventions to address them through skill building, networking, and program learning. As you engage in dialogue and learning with diverse stakeholders, you will contribute to greater programmatic impact through collaboration.

InterAction Forum 2018 June 12 - 14, 2018 | Washington, DC | InterAction Engage with fellow attendees from NGOs as well as business, government and academic sectors at the largest annual gathering of international development and humanitarian professionals. Providing unparalleled networking, topical and diverse breakout sessions, and high-level general sessions, the Forum delivers a stimulating environment to forge common solutions to pressing global challenges.

Member Announcements

CARE , in partnership with InterAction and 1,000 Days, is leading a new commitment to global nutrition programming, securing a $1.17 billion pledge from 13 NGOs between 2018 - 2020. This announcement came at the Global Nutrition Summit, held in Milan, Italy, November 4, 2017. The Eleanor Crook Foundation also committed $100 million by 2030.

Episcopal Relief & Development received a $1.4 million grant from the  Conrad N. Hilton Foundation  to expand its integrated Early Childhood Development program in Zambia and to extend the program into Kenya.

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, and World Vision announced a major expansion of the WASH UP! program designed to empower young children with lifesaving sanitation and hygiene habits.

JSI received a  Next Generation Immunization Training Grant  from  Bull City Learning (BCL)  to launch a “Peer Mentorship and WhatsApp” initiative in Kenya.

Project HOPE  received $40 million by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to implement a community based program that will expand access to comprehensive HIV prevention, care and treatment services in Ethiopia.

IntraHealth International  and  DAI  today announced a strategic affiliation that will enable the two organizations to extend their reach and amplify their collective impact in the global health arena.

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