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Tremont Plaza Hotel
Baltimore, Maryland
May 4-7, 2004
Context and Introduction:
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
Opening Announcements
Day facilitator: Jim Ricca (American Red Cross)
Welcome Address
Kenneth Hackett, President (Catholic Relief Services)
Keynote Address: Igniting a Second Child Survival Revolution
David Oot (Save the Children; Chair, U.S. Coalition for Child Survival)
The presentation briefly traced the history of the "first" child survival revolution, progress made and the remaining unfinished agenda, new initiatives to revitalize child survival globally and in the U.S., and the special role that PVOs can play in advancing child survival both at home and in the countries where we work.
State of CORE
Karen LeBan (CORE)
A look at CORE's accomplishments over the past six months, new challenges, and guidance for planning future directions for CORE.
Plenary Presentations: Identifying Strategies for Achieving Impact on MCH at Scale
Moderator: Robert Northrup (Project HOPE)
PVOs are masters of small, often very effective projects, but have been criticized as unable to scale up the inputs, outputs, and impact of such pilots to regional or national levels. With a range of evidence on the efficacy of specific child health interventions, USAID is increasingly demanding scale-up. The session will provide three perspectives on this challenge: the dissemination of an effective technical intervention, the PD/Hearth approach; the scaling up of a general community based and community empowerment approach (the Taylor SEED-SCALE approach), and the scaling up of a services program in the public sector in India and elsewhere. The presentations will present diverse strategies for scaling-up, describe the barriers to effective scaling up and suggest ways of overcoming them.
Presenters:
Robert Northrup (Project HOPE)
Judiann McNulty (Mercy Corps)
Henry Perry (Future Generations)
David Pyle (JSI)
Luncheon Roundtable: Sharing PD/Hearth Implementation Experience
Tom Davis, moderator (Curamericas). Presenters: Tom Davis (Curamericas); Ramesh Kumar Singh (Counterpart India), Jaydeep Mashruwala (Counterpart India).
An opportunity for those implementing PD/Hearth to discuss what works well and what challenges they are facing or have overcome. Ramesh Kumar Singh and Jaydeep Mashruwala of Counterpart India will discuss differences encountered in urban vs. rural environments, and monitoring issues including graduation criteria. There will be special focus on the PDI and how it might be localized. Food for the Hungry’s Tom Davis will share FH's literature review of factors that are sometimes associated with malnutrition in certain countries (e.g., consumption of tea, world view, depression in the mother, alcoholism in the family). While continuing to focus on the three goods (good food/feeding, good child care, and good healthcare seeking practices), FH will begin to research how common these "localized determinants" are in countries where they work.
Poster Session/Networking
An opportunity for participants to informally talk to representatives of CORE Working Groups and CORE Diffusion of Innovation Projects. There will also be a selection of additional posters of interest to the CORE membership. Posters will remain on display until Friday.
- CORE Working Groups (HIV/AIDS, IMCI; Malaria; Monitoring and Evaluation; Nutrition; Safe Motherhood/Reproductive Health; Social and Behavior Change; TB Taskforce):Profiles of tools, resources, workshops, and future plans.
- CORE Diffusion of Innovations Projects: Showcasing the direction of each project; promotion of upcoming materials and workshop opportunities.
- CORE Child Health & Development Database: The CORE database can be a “gold mine” for field staff, in need of easy access to information resources. Find useful information for assisting field staff to "mine" the database and for easily sharing your field-produced materials with others around the world. Robin Waite Steinwand (CORE).
- Community Malaria Treatment Collaboration: A successful example of national level collaboration, with support from CORE. Collaboration is among IRC, WR, CWI, UNICEF, and the MoH in Rwanda. (CWI Rwanda representative).
- Household Reminder Materials: A set of guidelines and CDs detailing step by step all the necessary activities to design, validate prepare and disseminate reminder materials to be used at the household level for caretakers to immediately recognize danger signs and seek appropriate care. Project HOPE, in conjunction with BASICS II and the CHANGE Project. Juan Carlos Alegre (Project HOPE).
- U.S. Coalition for Child Survival: The U.S. Coalition for Child Survival is a collaboration of organizations and individuals dedicated to improving the survival and healthy development of the world's children. The Coalition seeks increased public and private funding for child survival, shares best practices between organizations in the field, and coordinates efforts to eliminate and eradicate diseases that kill children. We do this by providing information and serving as a resource to child survival advocates. In support of this mission, the Coalition brings together organizations from across every US sector with an interest in child survival, including: foundations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic and research institutions, government agencies, and corporations. Allison Thomas and Tammy Henry (U.S. Coalition).
Working Group Planning
Using Working Group Planning Guidance outlines, during this session and two additional Working Group Planning sessions scheduled this week, WGs will have the opportunity to review their FY04 workplans and set clear action plans for last 8 months; elect WG chair(s) and make any changes to WG membership; develop a three-year vision statement to guide future direction; discuss and submit any proposals for Innovative Funds; develop a detailed one-year workplan for FY05; and accomplish other WG business or technical updates.
During this session, the Nutrition Working Group is conducting a Mini-Workshop on Essential Nutrition Action Tools for its members. This will serve as a springboard for subsequent discussions to develop both a one-year work plan and a 3-5 year vision. Facilitator: Victoria Quinn (Country Program Technical Manager, LINKAGES).
CSHGP Update and Future Directions
Susan Youll (USAID); CSHGP and CSTS+ teams.
An update for CORE members on what is funded for next year within the broad grant categories; lessons learned from the current round; and new directions for CSHGP and CSTS.
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Opening Announcements
Day facilitator: Lisa Bowen (PLAN)
Presentation of Board of Directors’ Candidates
Sanjay Sinho (CARE), Chairman of the Nominations Sub-Committee presented this year’s candidates for the three open Board of Directors’ positions: Chair, Technical Liaison, and At Large.
Plenary Presentations: Important Developments Affecting Child Survival
Implications of PEPFAR, WHO’s ‘3 by 5’ for Child Survival
Jim Sherry (Global Health Council)
Implications of how the new HIV/AIDS initiatives (HAART, ARVs) may affect MCH programming.
Dilemma of Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV. Infant Feeding Counseling, Balance of Risks and Implications for Program Implementation
Carolyn Kruger (Linkages).
In many VCT and PMTCT of HIV programs, the emphasis to date has been on the provision of antiretroviral drugs to prevent transmission around the time of delivery. Programs need to expand coverage and provide mothers with information, guidance and support that allows them to choose and adhere to the safest infant feeding strategy for their situation Infant feeding options pose a dilemma for the HIV –positive mother. Without interventions to reduce the risk of HIV transmission through breastfeeding, approximately 10% to 20% of infants of HIV-positive mothers would be infected if breast-fed for 18-24 months. Choosing not to breastfeed eliminates this risk but could increase the risk of malnutrition, diarrhea and acute respiratory infections- major causes of infant death. Many gaps remain in our knowledge of the risks associated with various infant feeding approaches under different conditions. This presentation will focus on the UN recommended feeding options for infants of HIV negative and HIV positive mothers, balance of risks of these infant feeding options and the implications for child survival. The challenges for health provider and community counselors and implications for maternal and child health, child survival and PMTCT programs will be presented with opportunities for discussion.
Essential Nutrition Actions: USAID Priorities
Tim Quick (USAID)
The presentation covers USAID’s Essential Nutrition Actions, and their role as a platform for other sectoral programs. It also focuses on nutrition in HIV setting.
Concurrent Sessions:
Child Survival Programming in an Urban Setting
Two presentations:
An Insight into Urban CS Programming: Challenges and Successful Strategies
Darshana Vyas (Counterpart)
Counterpart India presents a glimpse into urban CS programming, its challenges and facilitating factors, and successful strategies, developed under its USAID funded 'Jeevan Daan' Child Survival Program in Ahmedabad, Gujarat- India. The presentation includes cross-cutting approaches, community mobilization for networking and community development, Behavior Change Communication for health outreach and advocacy, partnerships, the success of urban PD/Hearth, its urban-specific ?quick and smart? Monitoring and Information system, community capacity building, and programmatic successes-to-date.
- PowerPoint Presentation Pending
Urban Health Programming: Lessons Learned by EHP
Sarah Fry (USAID Environmental Health Project)
Participants will identify differences between urban and rural health programs and key programming principles for child survival and health interventions in urban slum settings.
Over the past several years, USAID has been engaged in urban health initiatives on several fronts. In the field, USAID/India is supporting a 5-year Urban Slum Child Health Program comprising work through NGOs in two cities, and supporting the GOI and States in the development of urban slum health strategies and programs. The urban health initiative in Washington is led by a coalition of officers from USAID’s Global Health, Urban Programs and representatives from the regional bureaus with Asia Near East taking a leading role. To date, this coalition is supporting activities along two fronts: (1) enhanced data collection and information management, and (2) strategy development and improved health programming in urban slums through a pilot activity in Cairo.
These field and research activities are yielding lessons about the difference in programming child survival and other key health inventions in urban slums vs. in rural areas. Some important lessons include:
- Programming in urban slums is critical. Health status of children in poor urban settings is as bad and often worse than in rural areas
- The importance of identifying and working with the many urban stakeholders, and of creating coalitions and partnerships among them for sustainability of actions
- The lack of good useable disaggregated data about the health of the urban poor, especially children and the need to generate such data
- Urban slum areas are diverse and complex, and health issues are huge. Slum populations and neighborhoods should be ranked by vulnerability to effectively target limited program resources
- Private health providers play a critical role in urban settings and should be included in programs
These lessons underpin the urban health programming document being developed by the Environmental Health Project and the ANE region. It contains guidelines for entering urban slums and developing and implementing appropriate health interventions.
Integrating ART into Maternal and Child Health Programs: What You Need to Know Before You Take the Leap
Paula Brentlinger (HAI; University of Washington)
Participants will provisionally identify his or her organization’s highest-priority beneficiary groups, with respect to need for antiretroviral treatment; use a checklist to compare his or her own organization’s existing resources with those required to initiate ARV treatment for pregnant women and/or children; and identify three high-priority resources that his or her organization needs to acquire or develop prior to initiating new ARV-related activities. Included is a brief review of HIV/AIDS epidemiology, preven-tion, and treatment in women and children in developing countries and a summary of systems requirements for provision of ARV to 3 groups: 1. HIV-infected pregnant women who are not yet ill enough to require ARVs for their own health, but who wish to prevent vertical transmission of HIV to their infants; 2. HIV-infected pregnant women who are immuno-compromised and require ARVs to restore their own health; and 3. children born to HIV-infected mothers. Also included is a summary of known incompatibilities between AIDS treatment and common protocols for antenatal care, obstetrical care, and IMCI, based on the author’s experience and on the published literature and a review of pertinent ethical questions.
PDQ: An Equitable Approach to Quality Improvement
Kathryn Bolles (Save the Children); Debbie Fagan (Health Program Consultant)
Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) is a methodology developed by Save the Children (SC) that equitably unites community members (users and non-users of health programs or services) with providers to define quality, identify and prioritize problems, and create solutions that strengthen the quality, access and use of services. Since the development of PDQ in 1996, SC has piloted and tested the approach in at least 9 countries in all major global regions, and in a variety of different health programs. In 2003, SC published a PDQ manual to be used as an implementation guide and tool kit for field use, which is available in PDF format at http://www.savethechildren.org/technical/resources.asp.
Participants will evaluate the elements of PDQ most appropriate to their own PVO programming, review approaches to monitoring and evaluating the quality improvement process, and develop a preliminary action plan for integrating PDQ into programs both with and without an existing quality improvement strategy. They will also discuss lessons, review portions of the field guide, and discuss the applicability of PDQ in diverse settings and programs. Participants interested in detailed information about PDQ and integrating the methodology into their PVO’s programs are invited to attend a four-day PDQ training for program managers in Bangkok, Thailand from July 18-21. For more information, visit the CORE website, pick up a brochure with training details at the CORE meeting, or contact Kathryn Bolles at Save the Children at 203-221-3778, or email kbolles@savechildren.org.
KPC Taskforce Meeting
Juan Carlos Alegre (Project HOPE), Chair
Board of Director Elections
Election for the following Board of Directors positions: Chair, Technical Liaison, and At Large.
Dory Storms Award Vote
Each year at the Annual Spring Meeting, CORE presents the Dory Storms Child Survival Recognition Award to "a person(s) recognized for exceptional efforts resulting in more effective child survival program implementation and increased impact in improving the health of the poorest of the poor including mothers, children and infants in underserved communities throughout the world." Each PVO has one vote per organization to select the 2004 recipient of the Dory Storms Award from among this year’s nominees.
Roundtables:
- Recent Experience with the Sustainability Framework. Lyndon Brown (WV); Eric Sarriot (CSTS).
Since 2000, CSTS and CORE have worked collaboratively to advance the thinking in the CSHGP grantee community regarding the role of sustainability in community-based health programs. One result of this effort has been the development of the Child Survival Sustainability Assessment Framework, a conceptual tool to guide program design, monitoring, and evaluation. Over the past two years, six different CSHGP Projects have received technical support from CSTS in the application of the framework to their field projects. This session will feature a dialogue on how the Framework has informed program design, how it might guide their programs in the future, how the framework has been diffused through the grantee organizations, and what the experience of applying the framework has suggested in terms of a program’s prospects for contributing to sustained health outcomes. Featured will be World Vision's recent use of the sustainability framework in India and Indonesia, with opportunity get a conversation started.
- Addressing Refugee Health Concerns in the U.S.: Lessons Learned from CS Experiences. Diana Dubois (Executive Director, MIHV); Nathaly Herrel (Project Coordinator, Somali Health Care Initiative, MIHV)
Minnesota has become the ‘Somali capital of the United States’ and is home to over half of all U.S. Somali refugees. Using its extensive East African experience, Minnesota International Health Volunteers successfully launched the Somali Health Care Initiative (SHCI) in March 2002 in partnership with two Somali community organizations. The presentation highlights SHCI strategies and lessons learned, including: (i) mapping Somali community assets and strengths (ii) training bicultural Community Health Workers, (iii) conducting community health forums and mobilizing the community through multiple media outlets, (iv) implementing cultural competency workshops for health providers, and (v) conducting community-based health surveys and focus groups. It also includes a discussion of needed tools. Specific resources to share include bibliographies of publications, steps involved in conducting a health survey with full community participation, conducting an asset-mapping exercise, creating and maintaining healthy community partnerships, and potential replication. More information about Minnesota International Health Volunteers and the Somali Health Care Initiative are available at: www.mihv.org/somalihealthintiative.htm
- The Middle East: How to bring CORE resources to bear on donors and programs to this region. Larry Casazza (independent).
The session includes a briefing on the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid and Re-development (DIHAD) Forum April 6-8, 2004 ; discussion of possible relevance to CORE Group values and products; assessment of CORE partners’ engagement in the region to-date including both relief and development perspectives (with participants’ views welcomed); and discussion of potential CORE partner interest in pursuing this new arena with possible next steps and support commitment.
Working Group Planning
Specific time for continuing Working Group planning: review FY04 workplans and set clear action plans for last 8 months; elect WG chair(s) and make any changes to WG membership; develop a three-year vision statement to guide future direction; discuss and submit any proposals for Innovative Funds; develop a detailed one-year workplan for FY05; and accomplish other WG business or technical updates.
Concurrent Sessions:
Now We’re Talking! Facilitation Skills for Organizational Assessments
Facilitators: Michelle Kouletio (CWI); Dipankar Datta (CWI)
A skill-building session on organization capacity assessment facilitation. The session includes the role of the change agent, using an appreciative inquiry approach to plan and implement capacity assessment, managing the capacity domains to organize analysis, and managing organization change. Purpose: To build participants' confidence and skill in facilitating organization capacity assessments.
- Part 1: Understanding Terminology - Organization, Capacity, Assessment, and facilitation.
- Part 2: .Understanding Facilitation Skills
- Part 3: Conclusion, with Understanding of the Power of Appreciative Inquiry
A Crossfire Debate: TBAs
Moderator: Khama Rogo (World Bank
Participants: Jason Smith (FHI); Susheela Engelbracht (independent); Deborah Armbruster (ACNM)
Presentations on alternatives/perspectives regarding TBAs and Safe Motherhood, followed by a debate. Debate questions will come from the Safe Motherhood / Reproductive Health Working Group, from one presenter to another, and from session participants.
Jason Smith: Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) provide a considerable proportion of global obstetric and neonatal care, especially in areas poorly served by skilled birth attendants. But the evidence for the effectiveness of TBA training in reducing maternal and neonatal morbidity has been mixed, at best, bringing into question the advisability of continued investment in TBA training programs. This presentation will examine the definition of TBA and how that affects evaluative research. It will describe some of the attributes that make TBAs attractive as potential health care providers, as well as some of the conditions that limit their effectiveness. Using data from a number of sources, this presentation will argue that TBA training in its current form is unlikely to produce significant reductions in mortality or morbidity and may not be the best investment for scarce health dollars when compared with other known, effective interventions. Reformulations of TBA training may be hypothetically possible, but should be field tested and rigorously evaluated before being deployed at scale.
Improving Family and Community Practices for Child Health: Evidence and Agendas
Zelee Hill (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
A summary of the evidence available on the potential impact on child survival, growth and development of interventions to improve key family and community practices, which identifies gaps in knowledge and discusses next steps and priority setting for both program action and research. Resource used: Hill Z, Kirkwood B & Edmond K. Family and community practices that promote child survival, growth and development: A review of the evidence. 2004; WHO: Geneva
Evening Session: Discussion between Polio Secretariats and CORE’s Board of Directors
Specific discussion to issues proposed by the Secretariats.
Thursday May 6, 2004
Opening Announcements
Day facilitator: Diana Dubois (MIHV)
Board of Directors Election/Results and Run-Off
Results
Maternal and Child Health Progam Intersection with HIV/AIDS Treatment Initiatives: A Work in Progress
Paula Brentlinger, Health Alliance International
Concurrent Sessions:
Creating Reproductive Health Materials With Communities
Kathleen Vickery (Senior Editor, Hesperian Foundation)
The Hesperian Foundation creates health education materials in collaboration with health workers, grassroots groups and community health organizations around the world, who advise, review and extensively field test everything that we publish. This method of cooperation and partnership assures that our books and newsletters are practical, accessible and appropriate across cultures. Under Hesperian's open copyright policy, other groups have adapted and translated our materials into over 80 different languages, making these resources accessible to an even wider global audience. Participants in this session are likewise invited to collaborate in a discussion about developing, using and adapting reproductive health information, based on examples from Hesperian publications, including Where Women Have No Doctor, A Book for Midwives, Where There Is No Doctor, and the Women's Health Exchange. The discussion will focus specifically on the evolution of family planning information and the participatory process that led to changes in both content and presentation in a sequence of publications. Participants will share ideas for using and adapting these materials and/or the process in their work, and will be encouraged to contribute comments and experiences for future revisions.
Enriching Program Documentation through Case Study Inquiry
Daniel Perlman (University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health); Antonio Dias (Angola Polio Eradication Initiative Secretariat ); Miriam del Pliego (CORE Polio Eradication Initiative)
Much of our work at the community level goes undocumented, and thus many hard learned lessons are left untold. We rarely see in print the reflections of parents, outreach workers, birth attendants, traditional healers, and local leaders on the programs our organizations design to serve them. This session will critically review two CORE sponsored capacity-building workshops in which local staff of member organizations spread out through rural Angola and Tanzania to research and document their work in malaria control and polio eradication. Workshop participants selected a set of program related themes, which they investigated through participant observation and interviewing, and then developed into a powerfully written case study.
Participants will discuss their own efforts at encouraging effective documentation in their programs, reflect on how the design and methods of the Angola and Tanzania workshops might (or might not) be useful to their work, and brainstorm about how we can most effectively facilitate the development of writing skills among local staff.
Measuring Mortality Patterns & Changes in Child Survival Programs
Moderator: Tom Davis (Curamericas)
Presenters: Henry Perry (Future Generations); Melanie Morrow (World Relief); Judy Gillens (FOCAS)
During this session, participants will learn how prospective, census-based systems and retrospective mortality studies can be used to measure the impact of child survival programs, patterns of child deaths, and causes of death. Dr. Henry Perry will present mortality data from programs in Bolivia, Haiti, and India that show how child mortality patterns can vary significantly even within a given country. Participants will discuss how their child survival strategies and interventions might differ given different mortality scenarios and then discuss how mortality data can be used in program planning, monitoring, and evaluation. The limitations of tracking maternal mortality will be briefly discussed, as well. Mr. Davis will then discuss the elements of a census-based system (as applied in Curamericas' programs), what happens during mortality review meetings at the project level, some of the costs associated with a census-based system, and options for lowering the cost. Following this, Ms. Morrow will discuss how World Relief tracks child deaths at the community level, how results are presented back to communities, the benefits of tracking mortality prospectively, how WR has used retrospective mortality studies, and problems associated with retrospective and prospective studies. Finally, mortality changes in selected child survival projects using census-based systems will be presented. (Curamericas is currently developing a CORE-funded CBIO training manual that will be available later this fall. Notice will be sent to the CORE listserv when this product is available.)
Beyond Bednets: Integrated Vector Management for Malaria Prevention
Gene Brantly (EHP)
Concurrent Sessions:
Pharmaceutical Management Challenges: Lessons Learned
Bannet Ndyanabangi, Rima Shretta, Andrey Zagorskiy, Olya Duzey (RPM+)
This presentation briefly described the RPM Plus model for pharmaceutical management along with its six components of Policy and Legal Framework, Selection, Procurement, Distribution, Use and Management Support. Four presenters will also discuss global and regional pharmaceutical management challenges faced in the prevention, treatment and care of malaria, childhood illness, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS diseases and suggestions for overcoming these challenges. RPM Plus tools that have been developed and can be used by members of the CORE group will also be described.
Community-based Newborn Health Interventions in Latin America
Peter Winch (JHU); Deborah Armbruster (Saving Newborn Lives, SNL)
Innovative Approaches to Social and Behavior Change
ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE: Applying an Assets-based Approach to Adolescent Reproductive Health in Jamaica
Julia Rosenbaum (CHANGE)
This session will demonstrate how an assets-based approach can assist in planning and implementing integrated prevention programs that are participatory and sustainable. Traditional program planning identifies risk factors then builds programs to reduce risk and fill gaps. An assets-based approach turns the planning equation over, and looks for protective factors already existing in communities. Programs are built to strengthen those protective factors that make a difference. Experience and evaluation data have shown that assets-based approaches have a higher likelihood of community buy-in and sustainability, because they are built around assets that already exist in the community. USAID's CHANGE project worked with local counterparts to modify a standardized survey that measured 13 external and 6 internal assets in the school, home, community, peer and individual that research has linked to resilience and positive youth development. For information on the original survey called the California Healthy Kids Survey and resiliency in general, consult www.wested.org/pub/docs/chks or www.wested.org/cs/we/view/serv/26.
Session participants will describe major features of assets-based approaches; name the protective domains measured in a simple audience research protocol to examine relevant assets clusters; examine a field application of an assets-based approach to adolescent reproductive health objectives. The session invites discussion of integrating this approach with other assets-based approaches such as positive deviance, and applying the approach to technical areas beyond adolescent reproductive health.
CHANGE Project, Academy for Educational Development, 1825 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20009, 202-884-8838, jrosenba@aed.org.
HIV/AIDS Indicators and LQAS
Joe Valadez (World Bank)
Learn more about recent scale-up efforts and activities using LQAS as a monitoring tool in an HIV/AIDS program. The presentation includes tips and suggestions applicable to CORE PVO members in their efforts to expand/scale-up HIV/AIDS activities and to use LQAS as a viable tool for monitoring purposes.
Roundtable Sessions:
- Success Stories on Generating Matching or Cost Share Funds for Child Survival
Judiann McNulty (Mercy Corps)
How does your organization generate matching funds for Child Survival? At this round-table we will discuss how different PVOs meet the match requirement and try to come up with some new ideas.
- The Consultant Scramble: Replacing the Parachutes with a Global TA Network
Meg Kinghorn (Director of the Impact Alliance)
The success of child survival programming relies on the organizational capacities of the NGOs implementing the activities. Strengthening the managerial as well as technical skills of local staff and partners increases impact and sustainability. Yet where to you turn to meet this growing demand? The Impact Alliance is a global network committed to strengthening local capacity for positive social change. It matches your need for high-quality assistance with the talent available regionally, making interventions both more effective and less costly. The Impact Alliance also connects its members in a learning network to share tools and innovations, continuously raising standards of practice. As both users and providers of capacity building services find out how CORE and its members can both use and participate in this exciting initiative.
Working Group Planning
Specific time for continuing Working Group planning: review FY04 workplans and set clear action plans for last 8 months; elect WG chair(s) and make any changes to WG member-ship; develop a three-year vision statement to guide future direction; discuss and submit any proposals for Innovative Funds; develop a detailed one-year workplan for FY05; and accomplish other WG business or technical updates.
Concurrent Sessions:
PMTCT and VCT from the Bottom Up, Introducing Two New Guides for Program Planning and Implementation
Phil Moses (CORE consultant); Ruth Hope (Synergy)
New global and national initiatives are making access to treatment for HIV/AIDS more feasible than ever at the community level. This presents CORE members with the challenge of how to make these services available to the communities and districts in which they work in ways that support their child survival and safe motherhood programs instead of drawing resources away from them. Two new guides created by the HIV/AIDS Working Group are designed to help PVO program staff in the field to design and implement involving HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) and Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) interventions in the community at sub-district level building on the strengths and capacities of the community, and local partner organizations. Participants will explore the content and structure of the guides for designing and implementing community-based PMTCT and VCT interventions, and apply information from the guides to case studies based on actual field situations, thus learning how to use the guides. This session is a precursor to a dissemination workshop for CORE member field staff planned for Zambia this summer.
Tools: "Programming For Voluntary Counseling And Testing For HIV/AIDS; A Guide for Working in the Community" and "PMTCT guide for frontline health workers; providing mother baby friendly care in high prevalence resource poor settings."
Usage level: Field staff (principally of PVOs and/or their NGO partners) charged with designing and implementing health programs.
Release date: July 2004. Contact person: Phil Moses (Philip.moses@verizon.net).
Integrated Programming for Child Health
Linda Morales (Concern)
Case Studies:
CRS Guatemala. Alfonso Rosales (CRS)
CARE Nepal. Bijay Bharati (CARE/Nepal)
Discussion. Moderator: Lynette Walker (CORE)
The CORE Framework for C-IMCI has as its foundation a multi-sectoral platform (MSP)-- an intricate mix of influences and resources within a community that affect health outcomes. Participants of the March 2004 CORE/EHP MSP meeting stated that it was important to optimize a multi-sectoral platform in order to improve the impact of child health programming in a way that is more effective, efficient, equitable, or sustainable than health programs working alone. While there is much ideological support for the MSP, programming has been limited due to the lack of a clear definition and perceptions of complexity, high transaction costs and donor resistance. CORE commissioned a paper on the evidence-base for the MSP and solicited abstracts of field-based efforts around three "themes" in order to discuss the definition, key characteristics and specific strategies for implementation. This session will present the findings of the paper, two of the field-based examples of MSP efforts, and the results of workshop discussion. The floor will then be opened for discussion and debate on the way forward to enhance multi-sectoral community-based programming.
Dialogue on Program Design
Leo Ryan (CSTS+); Jennifer Luna (CSTS+)
This session is an opportunity for CSTS to give an overview of a program design course being developed for Flex Fund Grantees. This course is based on workshops Save the Children has implemented for their own staff and is being developed through a partnership between CSTS and Save the Children. The overview will briefly describe a six-step process to help organize designing projects and developing monitoring and evaluation plans. Participants in this session will have the opportunity to provide feedback on this course and dialog about their own experiences in program design.
Tools for Online Collaboration
Tom Davis (Curamericas/Food for the Hungry); Juan Carlos Alegre (Project HOPE); Ted Okada (Groove)
During this session, participants will watch a demonstration of two tools for online (internet) collaboration, vClass and Groove. This will be an interactive online presentation involving participants from other cities and countries that will show how new technologies are currently available for online meeting, training, and collaboration. Through "vClass", participants can get together over the Internet with a simple appli-cation that will allow remote users to interact with real time audio, participate in live presentations, and share any computer applications. vClass offers an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical environment so users can concentrate on contents and not technology. Groove (www.groove.net) is in some ways an alternative to vClass, and in other ways a complement to it. Groove has features that make it an ideal tool for collaborating using stored content. You can collaboratively edit, update, and save work calendars, files, photos, & web links to a shared space. You can also post documents for review by other members that you have invited to your work space. Groove also has some features similar to vClass (e.g., real-time audio so you can talk with your colleagues in other countries over the internet, edit a document together, or give a presentation to trainees using PowerPoint). This session will introduce the basic features of vClass and Groove, as well as advanced applications of relevance to PVOs, especially for working together with field staff from abroad. Features, benefits, and pricing of both systems will be discussed.
Evening Social Event : Tremont Hotel
Reception, with music by the Patent Pending Bluegrass Band
Friday May 7, 2004
Opening Announcements
Day facilitator: Leo Ryan (CSTS)
Plenary Panel: Private Sector Partnerships for Achieving Impact
Moderator: Robb Davis (Freedom from Hunger)
Presenters: Susan Rae Ross (Independent Consultant); Justine Frain (VP Global Community Partnerships, Glaxo Smith Kline); Thomas Sørensen (Regional Director North America/NAFTA, Vestegaard); Todd Lofgren (Global Development Alliance, USAID)
The panel brings together different partners to explore their experiences with creating effective public/private partnerships. Discussion will explore the purposes of these partnerships, navigating the different sectoral perspectives, benefits to both partners, and lessons learned.
Learn More about Audio Files
- Session Audio (mp3 - 47 min.) Part 1
- Session Audio (mp3 - 47 min.) Part 2
Plenary: Sharing
Specific WG Reports, Consolidations / Next Steps.
Plenary: Closing Address
Clive Calver, President, World Relief
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