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2015

Living Goods Overview (2015)

Brief document discussing the Living Goods program and how it strengthens and builds effective community worker health systems. 

Living Goods Overview (2015)1.73 MB
Report | Madagascar | 2015

CHW incentives Madagascar Summary brief_AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)

Brief report by USAID about the role that community health workers play in bringing access to better health in rural parts of Madagascar.

CHW incentives Madagascar Summary brief_AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)337.19 KB
Report | Malawi | 2015

CHW incentives Malawi Summary brief - AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)

Brief report by USAID about the role that community health workers play in bringing access to better health in rural parts of Malawi.

CHW incentives Malawi Summary brief - AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)676.31 KB
Report | Malawi | 2015

CHW Incentives, Lessons and Best Practices for Malawi - AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)

This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development and prepared by the African Strategies for Health Project. The report details best practices and lessons learned from community health workers in Malawi. 

CHW Incentives, Lessons and Best Practices for Malawi - AfricanStrategiesforHealthProject (USAID, 2015)1.25 MB
Report | Madagascar | 2015

CHW Incentives, Lessons and Best Practices for Madagascar - AfricanStrategiesforHealth (USAID,2015)

This publication was produced for review by the United States Agency for International Development and prepared by the African Strategies for Health Project. The report details best practices and lessons learned from community health workers in Madagascar. 

CHW Incentives, Lessons and Best Practices for Madagascar - AfricanStrategiesforHealth (USAID,2015)1.79 MB
Meeting Minutes | Uganda | 2015

Equity and impact of ICCM on the uptake of appropriate treatments for diarrhea and pneumonia in Uganda - Kallader, Nanyonjo ( International Journal for Equity and Health, 2015)

​​​​​​Brief about a study that measures the impact of integrated community case management as the first point-of-care on uptake of appropriate treatment for children with a classification of pneumonia (cough and fast-breathing) and/or diarrhea and to measure the magnitude and distribution of socioeconomic status related inequality in use of iCCM. Following introduction of iCCM, data from cross-sectional household surveys were examined for socioeconomic inequalities in uptake of treatment and use of iCCM among children with a classification of pneumonia or diarrhea using the Erreyg

Equity and impact of ICCM on the uptake of appropriate treatments for diarrhea and pneumonia in Uganda - Kallader, Nanyonjo ( In128.12 KB
English | Global | 2015

Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community - Planning Handbook for Programme Managers and Planners (Samira Aboubaker, WHO et al.) - 2015

This planning handbook, published in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, USAID, and Save the Children, is intended to inform managers and planners about caring for newborns and children in the community, its three community-based packages, their benefits and requirements. The resource also offers guidance on selecting the best mix of interventions and packages to expand or add in their country, and key decisions and actions in planning and implementing the packages in the context of current country activities.

Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community - Planning Handbook for Programme Managers and Planners (WHO 2016).pdf6.81 MB
Event Materials | English | 2015

GF, UNICEF, UNFPA PSM Meeting Report 2015: Participant List - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

GF, UNICEF, UNFPA PSM Meeting Report 2015: Participant List - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016161.76 KB
Event Materials | English | 2015

Overview and Update on iCCM: Benefit to Malaria Programs (UNICEF/WHO, 2015) - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Overview and Update on iCCM: Benefit to Malaria Programs (UNICEF/WHO, 2015) - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016434 KB
Report | English | 2015

Leveraging the GF NFM for iCCM: A Synthesis from Five Countries (MCSP, 2015) - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Leveraging the GF NFM for iCCM: A Synthesis from Five Countries (MCSP, 2015) - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016777.28 KB
Event Materials | English | 2015

iCCM Product Selection Guidance (UNICEF, 2015) English - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

iCCM Product Selection Guidance (UNICEF, 2015) English - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016340.44 KB
Report | English | Uganda | 2015

Uganda PSM Mission Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Uganda PSM Mission Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016327.8 KB
Report | English | Zambia | 2015

Zambia PSM Mission Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Zambia PSM Mission Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016293.14 KB
Report | English | 2015

GF, UNICEF, UNFPA: PSM Meeting Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016

Resource provided at the Scaling up integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) in the context of the UNICEF-GFATM Memorandum of Understanding workshop, which took place February 16-18, 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya.

GF, UNICEF, UNFPA: PSM Meeting Report 2015 - Nairobi iCCM Meeting 2016528.05 KB
Report | English | 2015

Neo-BFHI Core Document (2015) - INS Workshop

Resource provided at the Improving Nutrition Services in the Care of the Ill and Vulnerable Newborn and Child workshop hosted by USAID in collaboration with UNICEF, WHO, and USAID's flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP).

Neo-BFHI Core Document (2015) - INS Workshop3.04 MB
English | Global | 2015

2015 Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators

These materials were presented at the event hosted by USAID in collaboration with USAID’s flagship Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP). The three and a half day conference focused on ensuring child health and nutrition data from national HIS are available, accessible, of high quality and used for decision making. 2015 Global Reference List of 100 Core Health Indicators624.25 KB
Tool | English | 2017

Institutionalizing Community Health: Critical Principles

In March 2017, nearly 400 community health champions from 44 countries, representing multiple sectors, gathered in Johannesburg to share global and country specific evidence and lessons and identify opportunities and challenges – financial and human resources, programmatic, and socio-political – for institutionalizing community health as an integral component of primary health care in order to transform the future and ensure that every mother, newborn, and child not only survives but thrives in the Sustainable Development Goals era. 

Institutionalizing Community Health: Critical Principles 326.2 KB
Report | English | 2017

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition

The World Bank's Disease Control Priorities systematically assess the cost- effectiveness (value for money) of interventions that would address the major sources of disease burden in low- and middle-income countries. The third edition differs from the first and second by extending and consolidating the concepts of platforms and packages and by offering explicit consideration of the financial risk protection objective of health systems.

Meeting Minutes | English | 2017

Nutrition Subgroup Meeting Notes - December 12, 2017

Notes from the December 12, 2017 meeting of the Nutrition and Child Health Subgroup.  

 

Nutrition Subgroup Meeting Notes - December 12, 2017600.92 KB
Meeting Minutes | 2017

C&F Subgroup Meeting Notes (CCM Task Force) - April 13, 2017

Notes from the February 28, 2017 meeting of the Costing and Financing Subgroup, formerly a part of the CCM Task Force.

C&F Subgroup Meeting Notes (CCM Task Force) - April 13, 2017453.92 KB