Wednesday, September 15

Opening Session
Moderator: Janine Schooley, PCI

State of CORE, Karen LeBan

• Powerpoint: State of CORE

State of CSTS, Leo Ryan

• Session Highlights

Overview and Opportunities with the Country Research Activity
Paul Bolton and Jon Simon, Boston University

• Session Highlights
• Handout: Memo From Jonathon Simon
• Handout: Memo From Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Boston University
• Handout: Reducing Neonatal Mortality in Extremely Resource Contstrained Environments
• Handout: Multicenter study of the effectiveness and feasibility of using community health workers (CHWs) to classify and treat children presenting with malaria and/or pneumonia

Country Collaboration, Board Guidance, Case Examples, and Discussion
Moderator: Bill Weiss
Panelists: Lynette Walker, Janine Schooley, Michelle Kouletio, Eric Starbuck

• Session Highlights
• PowerPoint: Overview - Bill Weiss
• Handout: CORE Country Collaborations Task Force Track 1&2
• PowerPoint: CORE Collaboration, Track I: The Rwanda Story - Michelle Kouletio
• PowerPoint: Fostering Collaborative PVO Programming at Scale for Common Health Objectives
• PowerPoint: Track II Case Example - CORE Nepal Case Study

Presentation of Dory Storms Award to Gretchen & Warren Berggren

Option during lunch: Ugandan Film Screening: Living with Slim: Kids Talk about HIV/AIDS

Working Group Sharing and Future Directions
Five-minute presentations by each Working Group on future vision, key focus areas, and key 2005 activities.

• PowerPoint: Working Group Presentations
• Session Highlights

Feedback in WG table groups after each set of WG presentations:

• IMCI, Malaria, and Nutrition
• HIV/AIDS, SMRH, and TB
• SBC and M&E

WG Planning Time

WG Chair Meeting

BOD Meeting

Thursday, September 16

Moderator: Eric Sarriot, CSTS+

Concurrent Sessions:

1. Planning for joint proposals - Round 5 of the GFATM, CSGHP High Impact, or others
Bill Weiss and Milton Amayun

As a result of this open networking session, in-country collaboration for Global Fund proposals in Haiti and Ghana will be pursued. The point person for the Haiti proposal is Dick Taylor of FOCAS, and For Ghana, Ariel King. Both WG members will receive expressions of interest on in-country collaborative proposals.

2. Moving the sustainability agenda forward
Eric Sarriot and Lyndon Brown

• Handout: SHOUT Group
• Handout: Sustainability Objectives

3. The Old, The New and The Almost Forgotten, Family Planning Technology
Safe Mother and Reproductive Health Working Group

• PowerPoint: The Standard Days Method & CycleBeads: A Natural Approach to Family Planning - Victoria Jennings
• PowerPoint: Contraceptive Needs of HIV-infected Women: The Role of IUDs - Erin K. McGinn
• Session Highlights

4. Learn to use Elluminate – support for participating in web-based meetings Moderator: Eldred Hill, Presenters: Juan Carlos Alegre & Tom Davis

More on Elluminate

WG Planning Time

Also available during this time: Sign up for individual appointments with Eldred for Elluminate support.

Option during lunch: Play and comment on PALU, the malaria board game.

WG Planning Time

WG Announcements

Announcements by WGs of upcoming activities or key decisions made during WG time.

• Session Highlights: Upcoming Working Group Activities/Key Decisions
• PowerPoint: The Standard Days Method & CycleBeads: A Natural Approach to Family Planning - Training Version
• PowerPoint: M&E: Training for Victims of Torture Grantees
• PowerPoint: Behavior Change Perspectives and Guidelines for Six Interventions - Renata Seidel (presentation pending)

Plenary: The Role of NGOs in Global Initiatives
Moderator: Karen LeBan
Panelists: Al Bartlett, USAID; Ron Waldman, Columbia University; David Oot, Save the Children

• Session Highlights
• PowerPoint: A Brief History of the CS Partnership - Al Bartlett

Dinner Presentation: Long lasting retreatment solution for bednets, Gerhard Hesse, Bayer

• PowerPoint: Long lasting insecticide impregnated nets - LLIN’s