Resources

Presentation | English | Malawi | 2021

Malawi assessment tools for MNCH pediatric QoC Standards Presentation - March 9, 2021

Presentation given by the Quality Management Directorate at the Ministry of Health Malawi during a webinar co-hosted by the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Quality of Care subgroup of the Child Health Task Force on March 9, 2021. The presentation shared Malawi's assessment tool to measure adherence to the maternal, newborn and child health pediatric quality of care standards. 

Presentation | English, French | Kenya, Ghana | 2021

QI Principles & Approaches Webinar Presentation (Hill, Sodzi-Tettey, Agweyu & English) - March 22, 2021

Presentation slides (in French and English) from QoC subgroup webinar on Quality Improvement (QI) Principles and Approaches on March 22, 2021. The presenters were as follows: Kathleen Hill (MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership/Jhpiego), Sodzi Sodzi-Tettey (Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Ghana), Ambrose Agweyu (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya), and Mike English (KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme). 

Journal Article | English | 2021

Climate change and child health: a scoping review and an expanded conceptual framework

This scoping review on the effects of climate change on child health is published in the Lancet: Planetary Health Vol. 5, March 2021. You can also access the full text online at this link.

Report | English | Nigeria | 2021

Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening: Nigeria Country Case Study

This country case study captures experiences and lessons learned in Nigeria from the Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening (RTA) project, particularly focusing on the RTA processes of human-centered design and systems thinking. RTA was an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by the Child Health Task Force, which is managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. The project took place in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo from March 2018 to September 2020.

Report | English | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2021

Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening: DRC Country Case Study

This country case study captures experiences and lessons learned in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the Re-Imagining Technical Assistance for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health and Health Systems Strengthening (RTA) project, particularly focusing on the co-creation process and its outputs. RTA was an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented by the Child Health Task Force, which is managed by JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. The project took place in the DRC and Nigeria from March 2018 to September 2020.

Meeting Minutes | 2021

Nurturing Care Handbook Review Meeting Notes - March 12, 2021

Meeting minutes from the Nurturing Care Handbook review meeting held on March 12, 2021 and led by the M&E and PSE subgroups of the Child Health Task Force in collaboration with the ENAP metrics working group. The notes capture additional comments made by members at the meeting on strategic actions 4 & 5 of the handbook. 

Presentation | English | 2021

Nurturing Care Handbook Review Presentation (M&E & PSE subgroups and WHO) - March 12, 2021

Presentation slides of consolidated feedback on the Nurturing Care Handbook strategic actions 4 & 5 from the M&E and PSE subgroups of the Child Health Task Force and the ENAP metrics working group. Presented at the review meeting on March 12, 2021. 

English | 2021

Childhood in the Time of COVID: U.S. Complement to the Global Childhood Report 2021 (Save the Children)

Childhood in the Time of COVID represents the U.S. complement to the Global Childhood Report 2021 published by Save the Children and accessible on our website here. This report ranks all 50 states based on three factors that make American kids' lives increasingly challenging during COVID-19: hunger, lack of tools for remote learning, and trouble making ends meet. 

Report | English | 2021

The Toughest Places to Be a Child: Global Childhood Report 2021 (Save the Children)

Save the Children's fifth annual Childhood Report compares data from the End of Childhood Index which assesses hardships faced by children across 186 countries. Save the Children believes that every child has a right to childhood, as defined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. The End of Childhood Index tracks "childhood enders," including events such as a chi

Presentation | English | 2021

GFF Opportunities for Malaria iCCM Subgroup Presentation (M. Miles & T. Bracken, RBM) - February 11, 2021

Presentation slides by Tara Bracken and Melody Miles, presented at the iCCM Subgroup webinar hosted on February 11, 2021. The webinar shared highlights from The Global Financing Facility Guide for National Malaria Programs developed by RBM Partnership to End Malaria. The presentation includes background information about the GFF's purpose and function along with opportunities for engagement for malaria & iCCM programs. 

Presentation | English | 2021

Subgroup Meeting Slides - February 4, 2021

Presentation slides for the Nutrition subgroup re-launch meeting held on February 4, 2021. These slides present the goal and objectives of the subgroup, along with members' feedback on these objectives. 

Presentation | English | 2021

IMCI Analysis of Seven Countries Presentation (SHOPS Plus, Abt Associates, USAID) - February 2, 2021

Presentation shared during the webinar titled "Quality of Care for IMCI in Private and Public Health Facilities: Results from a SHOPS Plus analysis in seven countries," co-hosted by the Quality of Care and Private Sector Engagement subgroups on February 2, 2021. The slides were presented by Sarah Bradley, SHOPS Plus Global Research Director, and developed jointly with Tess Shiras and Ben Johns from Abt Associates.

Presentation | French | 2021

QoC Subgroup Meeting Presentation - January 27, 2021

Presentation slides in French and English presented at the QoC subgroup meeting on January 27, 2021. 

Guide | English | 2020

Minimum Quality Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement

This document provides globally established guidance on the contribution of community engagement in development practice as well as humanitarian action. The objective of the standards is to support implementation of high quality, evidence-based community engagement at scale in development and humanitarian contexts.

Tool | English, French | 2020

Community Health Planning and Costing Tool (Version 2.0) Handbook

This tool, and accompanying handbook, is designed to cost community health programs and packages of services.  Guidance is provided on how to use results to help assess performance, plan future services, and prepare investment cases for resource mobilization.

Guide | English | 2020

Integrating Stakeholder and Community Engagement in quality of care initiatives for maternal, newborn and child health

This resource provides operational guidance for policy makers and program implementers on how stakeholder and community engagement can be incorporated into quality improvement initiatives for maternal, newborn, and child health, including conducting stakeholder and community mapping and analysis, establishing governance structure, and developing communication and advocacy strategies.

Journal Article | English | 2020

Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014–2016

This article in the Malaria Journal presents a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria through the proactive CCM approach in Senegal.

Recommended Citation: Gaye, S., Kibler, J., Ndiaye, J.L. et al. Proactive community case management in Senegal 2014–2016: a case study in maximizing the impact of community case management of malaria. Malar J 19, 166 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-020-03238-0

Journal Article | English | 2020

Implementing integrated community case management during conflict in Yemen

The conflict in Yemen has devastated the health system, with only 51% of health facilities classified as fully functional and 19.7 million people lacking access to health care. To address the urgent need for primary health care services in rural communities, Save the Children launched an iCCM program in Lahj and Taiz Governorates. A qualitative study was conducted to document the challenges to iCCM service delivery and to aid in developing strategies for overcoming service delivery bottlenecks in conflict-affected rural areas.

Report | English | 2020

Policy Brief: Community Health Workers in Humanitarian Settings

To better understand the barriers and enabling factors for community-based service delivery through CHWs, UNICEF, Save the Children, and the International Rescue Committee have collaborated to conduct a number of studies to document experiences with CHW services in humanitarian settings in low- and middle-income countries. Retrospective case studies were carried out in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone (Ebola outbreak); South Sudan (conflict); Bangladesh (flooding); and Yemen (conflict).

Journal Article | English | 2020

Community case management of chest indrawing pneumonia in children aged 2 to 59 months by community health workers: study protocol for a multi-country cluster randomized open label non-inferiority trial

This paper presents the protocol used in a study to determine and compare treatment failure rates of enhanced iCCM compared with standard iCCM in children aged 2-59 months of age with chest indrawing pneumonia without general danger signs and/or hypoxaemia.