Resources

Event Materials | English | Ghana | 2018

Review of Policies and Guidelines - Lynette Friedman (MCSP Research Consultant) - INS Workshop

Event Materials | English | Ghana | 2018

Recent Global Evidence - Nadeem Hasan (DFID) - INS Workshop

Presented at the 2018 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).

Event Materials | English | Ghana | 2018

Setting the Stage - Anne Detjen (UNICEF) and Nigel Rollins (WHO) - INS Workshop

Event Materials | English | Ghana | 2018

Overview of INS Workshop - Anne Peniston (USAID) and Michel Pacque (MCSP) - INS Workshop

Overview presentation of the 2018 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).

Guide | English | 2015

Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community – Planning Handbook for Programme Managers and Planners

This handbook guides program managers and planners on caring for newborns and children in the community, including outlining a set of intervention packages and key decisions and actions required for country-level planning and implementation.

Journal Article | English | 2015

Strategic partnering to improve community health worker programming and performance: features of a community-health system integrated approach

This Human Resources for Health article explores a strategic community health system partnership as one approach to improving CHW programming and performance in countries with or intending to mount large-scale CHW programmes.

Recommended Citation: Naimoli JF, Perry HB, Townsend JW, Frymus DE, McCaffery JA. Strategic partnering to improve community health worker programming and performance: features of a community-health system integrated approach. Hum Resour Health. 2015 Sep 1;13:46. doi: 10.1186/s12960-015-0041-3. PMID: 26323276; PMCID: PMC4556219.

Report | English | 2015

Countdown to 2015 Decade Report 2000-2010: Taking Stock of MNC Survival - (WHO/UNICEF, 2010)

This World Health Organization and UNICEF-provided report gives an extensive look at maternal, newborn, & child (MNC) survival.

Presentation | Ethiopia | 2015

Ethiopia Progress (USAID, 2015)

This presentation looks at USAID's investment in Ethiopia and focuses on the increased the utilization of quality health services and ending preventable child and maternal deaths.

Report | 2015

Trends in Pneumonia and Diarrhea Burden - (Nancy Fullman/IHME, 2015)

This report looks at the trends in mortality from diarrheal diseases, the combined burden from pneumonia and diarrhea diseases, and considers the shifts in fatal versus non-fatal outcomes.

Report | Niger | 2015

Power and Pro-poor Policies: The Case of iCCM in Niger - (Daniela C. Rodriguez et al., 2015)

This report examines the three dimensions of power in policy-making: political authority, financial resources and technical expertise, and how it relates to integrated community case management (iCCM) in Niger.

Report | 2015

iCCM in Malawi: An Analysis of Innovation and Institutional Characteristics for Policy Adoption - (Daniela C. Rodriguez et al., 2015)

Through a retrospective case study, this report explores critical issues in implementation that arose during policy formulation through the lens of the innovation of integrated community case management (iCCM) and of the institutions involved in the policy process.

Report | 2015

iCCM for Childhood Illnesses: Explaining Policy Resistance in Kenya - (Pamela A. Juma et al., 2015)

This report analysed integrated community case management (iCCM) policy development in Kenya and in particular the types of decision-making criteria used by Kenyan policy-makers in considering whether to advance iCCM policy.

Report | 2015

iCCM Policy Analysis: Strategic Contributions to Understanding its Character, Design and Scale up in Sub-Saharan Africa - (Asha George, et al., 2015)

Report examines how policy analysis can inform how integrated community case management (iCCM) is framed, tailored for national health systems, and how to foster accountability and learn from iCCM.

Report | 2015

Altogether Now: Understanding the Role of International Organizations in iCCM Policy Transfer - (Sara Bennett et al., 2015)

Report looks at policy transfer theories that explain how policy ideas move across time and geography and offer an approach to understanding waves of policy change, a common phenomenon in global health. Four primary mechanisms for the transfer of policies from global to national levels are posited: learning, coercion, socialization, and competition.

Report | 2015

Epistemic Communities in Global Health and the Development of Child Survival Policy: A Case Study of iCCM - (Sarah L. Dalglish et al., 2015)

This report describes the evolution of integrated community case management (iCCM) at the global level using the theory of epistemic communities first outlined by Haas, which explains how international policy coordination on technical issues takes place via transnational expert networks. The report draws from in-depth interviews with global policy-makers.

Report | 2015

Policy Analysis: Important for Improving iCCM Implementation; essential for success of global health efforts - (Kumanan Rasanathan, 2015)

This report focuses on integrated community case management (iCCM) policy development and implementation, the history of primary health care, and the role of community health workers (CHWs). iCCM, while supported by the existence of joint statements and normative guidelines, is not enacted in a vacuum. Its implementation is affected by the nature of existing health worker cadres and how iCCM services are delivered.

2015

Living Goods Brief Overview - (2015)

Advocacy brief about Living Goods' services. 

Report | 2015

Project Clear Pneumonia Pre-Testing - (2015)

Report examines Project Clear's Pneumonia pre-testing outputs, which seek to help caregivers and community health workers recognize signs of the disease and care for children inflicted with it. 

Report | 2015

Evidence Informed Policymaking in Practice - (Race Project) - (Daniela C. Rodriguez, et al., 2015)

This report details country-levels of the evidence-informed integrated community case management policymaking in practice.

Report | Burkina Faso | 2015

Policy Entrepreneurs and Structural Influence in iCCM Policymaking in Burkina Faso (Race Project) - (Jessica C. Shearer, 2015)

This report examines the effectiveness of policy entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso. It reveals that they are most effective when they have certain behavioural traits, institutional constraints, political capital, and network position.