In July 1999, the Polio Eradication Team (PET) of the CORE Group Partners Project (CGPP) was formed to fulfill the terms of a grant from the USAID Global Bureau, Office of Health and Nutrition, Child Survival Division. The project has a ceiling of $25 million (covering nine years) for the Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI).
The CGPP coordinates and mobilizes community involvement in mass oral polio vaccine (OPV) immunization campaigns in high-risk areas and the hardest-to-reach populations of polio-endemic countries. The CGPP also supports private voluntary organization (PVO) involvement in Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) case detection, AFP reporting, and surveillance for other vaccine preventable diseases. In addition, CGPP works to strengthen routine immunization. The CGPP works with 13 partners on 19 projects, and is active in Angola, Ethiopia, India, and Nepal. CORE polio projects have been completed in both Bangladesh and Uganda.
Vision: To involve CORE PVOs and NGO partners in accelerating the eradication of polio while leaving behind an infrastructure that can be used to address other health priorities. To this end, collaborative networks of PVOs and NGOs are developed with the capacity to accelerate other national and regional disease control initiatives.
Mission: CGPP’s strategy includes the following six components:
- Building partnerships;
- Strengthening existing immunization systems;
- Supporting supplemental immunization efforts;
- Improving the timeliness of AFP case detection and reporting;
- Providing support to families with paralyzed children; and
- Improving the quality of the polio eradication effort through documentation and use of information.
CORE Polio Secretariats - Our Model: In country where CGPP is active (Angola, Ethiopia, India and Nepal), CORE has established a network of NGOs and PVOs who are working together to fight polio. These formal networks, or Secretariats, are staffed by full-time directors who organize NGO/PVO activities for immunization, supplemental immunization activities, surveillance and other activities. As successes are achieved in polio eradication, the Secretariats expand to work on other pressing health issues, such as malaria and nutrition.
Reports
- FY 2007
- FY 2006
- FY 2005
- FY 2004
- FY 2003
- FY 2002
- FY 2001
- FY 2000
Where We Work
Polio Eradication Team Members
Ellen Coates
Director
(202)572-6300
ecoates@worldvision.org
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Sara Smith
Deputy Director
(202)572-6374
sjsmith@worldvision.org
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Dora Ward
Technical Advisor
(404)979-9226
dward@care.org
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Bill Weiss
Special Advisor
(410)614-6172
bweiss@jhu.edu
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David Newberry
Special Advisor
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