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CORE Group Welcomes Three New Member Organizations
Earlier this month, CORE's membership approved three new member organizations.
International Relief and Development
www.ird-dc.org
Founded in 1998, International Relief and Development's programs are designed to rebuild local health care infrastructure and to equip communities to meet the basic health, nutrition, and reproductive needs of their people. Their programs also include training and health education outreach to raise public awareness of family planning, HIV/AIDS education, nutritional information, and health management. IRD recently received a Child Survival Grant for their work in Cambodia. International Relief and Development proposes to become actively engaged in the CORE Nutrition, HIV/AIDS, IMCI, and M&E Working Groups.
InterChurch Medical Assistance
www.interchurch.org
InterChurch Medical Assistance is an association of 12 Protestant relief and development agencies established in 1960. IMA facilitates the development and implementation of collaborative programs of interest to member agencies and other partners that support and strengthen health care structures in developing countries. It provides comprehensive technical and material assistance for overseas health programs of partner churches, faith-based development and relief organizations, and public and private agencies with similar goals in 88 countries around the world. InterChurch Medical Assistance proposes to become actively engaged in the CORE HIV/AIDS Working Group.
White Ribbon Alliance
www.whiteribbonalliance.org
The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness of the need to make pregnancy and childbirth safe for all women and newborns. WRA includes organizational members in 73 countries. The White Ribbon Alliance has partnered with CORE for many years, actively participating in CORE's SMRH working group. White Ribbon Alliance proposes to become more actively engaged in the sharing of technical updates and best practices from around the world.
TB Working Group Represents CORE Members at IUATLD Conference
Members of the TB working group will represent CORE at the 37th Union World Conference on Lung Health in Paris from 31 October to 4 November 2006. The theme this year is Strengthening Human Resources for Better Lung Health. CORE will have booth space in the exhibit hall with materials to explain members' efforts at TB treatment and prevention. CORE was also represented at the recent annual meeting of the Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization Subgroup at Country Level of the Stop TB Partnership in Milan, Italy.
IUATLD Conference
Stop TB Partnership Meeting
Working Groups Present IYCF State of the Art Technical Update
The HIV/AIDS and Nutrition Working Groups of CORE will present a State of the Art Technical Update on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission and Infant/Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Options for HIV+ Mothers on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at AED's Greeley Hall in Washington, DC. The event will update participants on the evidence base related to IYCF and HIV transmission, including highlights from the latest WHO technical consultation of October 2006. The LINKAGES Program will present lessons learned, challenges, and opportunities based on their 10 years of experience. Also on the program will be an introduction to the new USAID IYCF contract and a discussion of key programmatic implications for the future. For more information and registration, please check the CORE website.
IYCF SOTA Registration
CORE Group Fall Meeting Presentations Available
All the presentations from CORE's Fall Meeting at the beginning of the month are now available online. Over 140 people attended the meeting and participated in discussions on The African Union Declaration on Child Survival, the rationale for community case management, program synergies between HIV/AIDS and child survival, updates on USAID restructuring and the U.S. Coalition for Child Survival, and on efforts to tackle avian flu and malaria.
CORE Group Fall Meeting Presentations
Save the Date!
CORE returns to Easton, Maryland, for its Spring Meeting on April 24 - 27, 2007. CORE member staff and partners will gather to learn about new technical approaches, share best practices and lessons learned, present key findings from field-level activities, attend skill-building sessions, develop partnerships for collaborative NGO activities, and plan Working Group activities. Details will be posted on CORE's website in the coming months. Please join us!
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Pneumonia: The Forgotten Killer of Children:
Pneumonia causes almost 1 in 5 under-five deaths worldwide: more than 2 million children each year. It kills more children than any other disease-more than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. Yet lack of attention to the disease means too few children have access to currently available interventions. This joint UNICEF/WHO publication is a call to action to raise awareness and reduce child mortality from pneumonia, which will contribute to achieving the Millennium Development Goal on child mortality.
Pneumonia: The Forgotten Killer of Children
Advancing Reproductive Health and Family Planning through Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Organizations:
This report describes how Pathfinder International has engaged the support of religious leaders through training and sensitization, to spread knowledge and acceptance of family planning and to challenge harmful traditional practices. Working with faith-based organizations and religious leaders helps Pathfinder establish credibility in traditional communities and can provide a solid, established network for collaboration and dissemination of information and services.
Advancing Reproductive Health and Family Planning through Religious Leaders and Faith-Based Organizations
A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices:
The INFO Project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs has published a tool that explains how an organization can more effectively share its own best practices internally. This tool reviews what a best practice is, the benefits of sharing best practices, and some obstacles to sharing. It then outlines a process for identifying your organization's best practices, validating and documenting them, and preparing a plan to share them throughout your organization. The tool also includes three case studies of organizations that have tried to share best practices internally.
A Tool for Sharing Internal Best Practices
Share your materials with NGOs around the world: CORE's Child Health and Development Database houses more than 400 NGO tools, documents and materials in child health and development. Materials submission instructions are available in English, French and Spanish. Please visit www.coregroup.org/database/.
The CORE Group, a membership association of 44 international
nongovernmental organizations, promotes and improves the health and well
being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative
NGO action and learning. Visit us at www.coregroup.org. To subscribe to
the CORE Group's monthly e-newsletter, send an e-mail to: e-update@coregroup.org. For inquiries, contact the CORE Group at: contact@coregroup.org.
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