VISION STATEMENT

Citizen-supported not-for-profit Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), undertaking collective actions, demonstrate the power of civil society to positively impact child and maternal health. The CORE Group serves as a communication link between its members and like-minded networks of NGOs around the world, promoting recommended practices, facilitating learning, and developing collaborative services and strategies that significantly improve the health and well-being of children, women and families in developing countries. Through facilitation of dialogue and collective action between its members and other experts, the CORE Group synthesizes experiences and generates state-of-the art products and knowledge that dramatically affect community-based child and maternal health polices and practices. CORE is known for its high quality practitioner-based materials that set standards and contribute to efforts to build a healthy civil society. With regional and country linkages, the CORE Group influences global health policy that contributes to increased child survival and the ability of families and communities to successfully nurture children through healthy development.

VALUES

Collective Capacity
The CORE Group works through its member organizations to promote their collective capacity and successfully leverages their organizational strengths and resources.

Openness
The CORE Group widely shares its materials and welcomes constructive dialogue and exchange with all partners to continually refine state-of-the-art knowledge.

Equity
The CORE Group promotes equitable access to resources across its membership.

Local Experience and Knowledge:
CORE members remain intimately connected with communities, families, mothers and children thereby bringing local practitioner-based realities to the policy table.

Participation of Civil Society
The CORE Group promotes strategies that maximize participation of families, communities, and local government in health decision-making.

Impact
The CORE Group monitors and measures its work to demonstrate local and global health impact.

MISSION

The CORE Group, a membership association of U.S. NGOs, strengthens local capacity on a global scale to measurably improve the health and well-being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative NGO action and learning.

FUNCTIONS

• Synthesize, refine, and disseminate state-of-the-art child and maternal health practices, strategies and policies.
• Enhance professional development of members.
• Build capacity and strengthen collaboration with its members and other groups to improve health and well-being of children and women on a large scale.
• Create opportunities for members to dialogue and learn from international, regional and national experiences, networks, health specialists and specialists in other related fields.
• Facilitate member access to policy makers and forums to influence child and maternal health policy and practices.
• Link members with public and private donor resources and expertise.

STRATEGIC GOALS

1. COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAM KNOWLEDGE
Orderly process is in place for converting NGO experience into trustworthy standards, strategies and practices to guide community-based child and maternal health programs.

2. ORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION
Open, inclusive partnerships and collaboration exist at national, regional and global levels that promote effective scaled-up community-based child and maternal health programs.

3. RESOURCES
Significant, reliable public and private resources are available for CORE members and partners to support community-based child and maternal health programs.

4. EFFECTIVE POLICY
Active, influential role of CORE members representing community-based child and maternal health perspective, values and experience exist in national, regional and global policy forums.

5. SUSTAINABILITY
Stable, modest, diversified funding base supports small, talented and committed staff, led by strong executive and board leadership.