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Online Learning Session Offered on COPE Methodology
On July 13, Erin Mielke and Anna Kaniauskene of EngenderHealth will present a CORE Group online learning session on the Community COPE methodology to help health care facility staff improve the quality of services provided to clients, and make services more efficient and responsive to client needs. The session will provide an overview of the COPE process, describe the various COPE modules, and provide a comparison between Community COPE and Partnership-Defined Quality (PDQ), and between the Quality Measuring Tool (a measurement tool based on COPE) and the Quick Investigation of Quality (QIQ) tool.
The online-only session is open to CORE Group members and partners at no charge. The session will run from 12:30 to 1:30 pm (US Eastern time) on July 13. To register, visit the link below.
Meeting Registration
NGOs Hold National Malaria Conference in Kenya
The Kenya NGO Alliance Against Malaria (KeNAAM) will hold its third annual national malaria conference July 26-28 in Nairobi to exchange policy information and program experiences among NGOs, donors, Ministry of Health officials and private sector representatives.
For more information, contact KeNAAM at KeNAAM@amrefke.org
President's Malaria Initiative Expands to Four New Countries
On June 8, US First Lady Laura Bush announced Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, and Senegal as the newest countries to be added to the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) -- a $1.2 billion, five-year initiative to control malaria in Africa. The four nations will join Tanzania, Uganda, and Angola as focus countries for the PMI, launched last year by President Bush. At the June 8 press event, Mrs. Bush also introduced Mr. R. Timothy Ziemer as the new U.S. Malaria Coordinator. Mr. Ziemer, former Executive Director of CORE Group member World Relief, will have direct authority over both the President's Malaria Initiative and all USAID malaria programs and policy.
In addition, William Fleming, Christian Children’s Fund and CORE Group HIV/AIDS Working Group Co-Chair, spoke about PVO efforts to prevent and control malaria at the June 8 launch. For more on PMI, see link below.
President's Malaria Initiative
Bolivia Neonatal Field Story Available in Spanish
A Spanish version of CORE's latest field story on the contribution of NGOs to introducing an essential newborn care package in Bolivia is now available on the CORE web site. As part of the Saving Newborn Lives initiative, the NGOs developed different methodologies to identify pregnant women and newborns, to engage the community in acknowledging reasons why mothers and babies get sick or die, and to carry out action plans involving community health workers and municipal authorities.
Field Story
CORE Releases VCT Checklist for NGO Program Managers
The CORE Group recently released a new tool to help NGO health staff consider key questions when working with Ministries of Health or other organizations to expand voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) services in their project areas. Improving Access To and Use of Quality Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) Services: A Checklist for Community-based Health Projects is now available at the link below.
VCT Checklist
CRS Presentation on Obstetric Practices in Honduras Posted
Judith Galindo of Catholic Relief Services (CRS) recently presented on scaling up of improved obstetric emergency practices in Honduras at a USAID/CORE Group brown bag session. Her presentation, which addresses how the CRS project scaled up from 95 to 583 rural communities and the CORE Group's role in diffusing project innovations, has been posted on the CORE Group web site. For more information, contact Mary Hennigan/CRS at mhenniga@crs.org.
CRS Presentation
Flex Fund OR Training, Family Planning Reports Posted
Two new reports are available on the USAID Flexible Fund web site:
- A summary of the May 16, 2006, "Community-Based Family Planning Strategies and Approaches Workshop", sponsored by USAID's Flexible Fund, CSTS+ Project and the CORE Group for Flex Fund grantees and partners; and
- A training report from the May 1-12, 2006, "Operations Research Proposal Development Workshop," sponsored by the Flexible Fund, Population Council, CSTS+ Project, and the CORE Group, for PVO field staff. This report includes training presentations and handouts.
Family Planning Workshop Summary
OR Training Report
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Investing to Save Newborn Lives:
A team of authors led by Gary Darmstadt of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Save the Children US has released an advocacy paper that disaggregates costing data cited in The Lancet's 2005 neonatal survival series. The resulting analysis shows that any additional investment in newborn health can have a large impact on saving lives. The paper is targeted to an audience of non-technical decision makers.
Newborn Lives Paper
ExpandNet Scaling Up Bibliography:
The ExpandNet web site offers an online bibliography of publications, websites, grey literature, and conference reports that either directly address scaling-up or provide valuable insights on scaling-up. Included are materials from the health, family planning and development fields as well as selected resources from other sectors.
ExpandNet Bibliography
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