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CORE Group Awards Documentation Grants
CORE Group has awarded funding to several member organizations in order to document their experiences with various compelling programs. After a competitive process, Christian Children's Fund, World Relief, Plan International, and Save the Children were selected to receive the grants. CCF will describe their community action against malaria and tuberculosis program in Senegal; WR will document their community-based integrated management of childhood illness (C-IMCI) programs in Malawi, Mozambique, and Rwanda; and Plan will write-up their C-IMCI programs in Cameroon and Mali. In conjunction with USAID's Flex Fund, CORE Group has awarded funding to Save the Children to document their community-based family planning program in Nepal. These various case studies should be completed by the end of the year. For previous case studies and field stories, please visit the CORE Group website.
CORE Group Case Studies and Field Stories
CORE Group Hosts Pandemic/Avian Flu and Family Planning Online Learning Sessions
Eric Starbuck of Save the Children and Whitney Pyles of CARE will be presenting two Elluminate online learning sessions about pandemic and avian flu in the coming weeks. On Thursday, 28 June 2007, from 8:30 to 10:30am EDT, Eric recreated his session entitled "Pandemic Influenza: Epidemiology, Prevention, Treatment, History, and Current Threat," which he also presented at the recent CORE Group Spring Meeting. If you were unable to attend this compelling session then, the recording of the session has been placed on the CORE Group website, so you now have another chance to view it. Whitney Pyles will discuss NGO responses to the pandemic flu threat sometime in August. Watch the CORE Group listserve for further details.
Also, in July, CORE Group will also present an online learning session on family planning in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Jaime Stewart and Susan Igras of CARE will explain how their project has managed to significantly increase the contraceptive prevalence rate among a remote population in a post-conflict setting. Watch the CORE Group listserve for further details on this as well.
Elluminate Online Learning
CORE Group Members and Partners to Present at APHA
CORE Group has organized a panel session for the upcoming American Public Health Association annual meeting 3-7 November 2007. Entitled "Community-based Approaches are Essential in Global Fight to Increase Child Survival," the session will feature presentations by Jim Ricca of the CSTS+ Project, Tom Davis of Food for the Hungry, Henry Perry of Future Generations, and Andrew Barrer of the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival. The panel will present on Monday, 5 November from 8:30 to 10:00 am. If you plan to attend the APHA meeting, please stop by.
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Voices from the Village-Improving Lives through CARE's Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs:
CARE has released the first two case studies from their new series, Voices from the Village: Improving Lives through CARE's Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs. The first case study, Meeting Needs for Reproductive Health Services in Post-Conflict Environments: CARE's Family Planning Project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlights the mid-project impact of the CARE's three-year Family Planning Project (FPP) in remote, war-torn Maniema province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This case study explores the FPP mid-project results and lessons learned on addressing family planning as an "urgent" need and integrating reproductive health care services as part of first tier-interventions implemented by health delivery systems during times of crisis and post-crisis.
The second case study, The FEMME Project in Peru: Partnerships for Improved Health, features CARE's innovative project, known as the Foundation to Enhance Management of Maternal Emergencies (FEMME) project, in the rural mountainous region of Ayacucho, Peru. The FEMME project focused on using a rights-based approach to meet the need for emergency obstetric care (EmOC) services, with emphasis on increasing delivery, availability, access, and use of EmOC services. This case study highlights the success of the FEMME project on increasing survival rates of women, as well as its overall impact on the use of health services in Ayacucho, and its broad impact on policies and programs related to EmOC in the country.
Voices from the Village
Testing a PMTCT Infant-Feeding Counseling Program in Tanzania:
the USAID Quality Assurance Project's effort to find ways to help mothers make the best infant-feeding choice for themselves and their infants; adhere to that choice over the appropriate period; and then transition to another, appropriate feeding method. This report underscores the complexity of adapting the international criteria on HIV and infant feeding to a local context and of developing culturally appropriate counseling job aids.
Testing a PMTCT Infant-Feeding Counseling Program in Tanzania
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