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Community Health and Child Survival Resources


Web-based Resources

  • Barrier analysis online training [Food for the Hungry] - A tool for improving behavior change communication in child survival and community development programs. A PDF version of the facilitators guide is also available.

     

  • The CORE Group is a coalition of nongovernmental organizations, is a global leader in responding to health issues that place children at risk. Since 1997, the CORE Group and its members have worked across the developing world to aid mother, father and community leaders in improving the health of their children. Resources include case studies, curricula, working papers, online trainings and a Child Health database.

     

  • Infection Prevention in Low-resource settings [EngenderHealth, also available in Spanish]

     

  • STATcompiler - A free online tool that provides quick facts and country comparisons, allowing users to build customized tables from hundreds of Department of Health Services surveys and indicators.



Technical Documents

  • Designing for Behavior Change Curriculum [PDF] [CORE Group] This field-tested, six-day training package will enable private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and partners to replicate the BEHAVE workshops conducted with CORE Group members in multiple countries and regions around the globe. The manual consolidates handouts and facilitator materials with easy-to-use training guidelines. It is built upon the BEHAVE Framework, developed by the Academy for Education Development (AED). The workshop trains participants to apply AED’s BEHAVE Framework to improve maternal and child health programming.

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  • Facilitative Supervision Handbook  [Engender Health] Facilitative supervision helps supervisors at all levels in an institution focus on the needs of the staff they oversee. Supervisors who use the facilitative approach consider staff to be their customers. This approach emphasizes mentoring, joint problem solving, and two-way communication between a supervisor and those being supervised.

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  • Learning to Listen to Mothers  [AED] This manual provides guidelines and instructions for planning and conducting a two-day Growth Monitoring and Promotion (GMP) workshop. The training is designed for field supervisors and community health workers already skilled in weighing and charting child growth so they can focus on "strengthening communication" aspects of their practice.

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  • Participation for Empowerment: [PDF] A Manual for Development Agents [CARE] This manual was developed as a guide to assist in training field staff to adopt techniques and attitudes that promote community empowerment in their program planning and day-to-day activities. It is not intended for the participants to replicate the training with community groups, but rather to put the concepts and skills into practice themselves. This should be made clear to the participants. This manual is presented in the form of a workshop, lasting approximately five days, with all the instructions needed to replicate the workshop. It is intended as a guide, rather than a blueprint of every workshop detail. This manual should be viewed as a guide to be adapted to local issues and priorities.

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  • Participatory Health and Sanitation Transformation:  A New Approach to Working with Communities [WHO] - also available in French This approach is designed to promote hygiene behaviors, sanitation improvements and community management of water and sanitation facilities using specifically developed participatory techniques.

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  • Partnership Defined Quality [PDF] [Save the Children] A tool book for community and health provider collaboration for quality improvement.

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  • Child Survival [PDF]  curriculum for Nias, Indonesia [Medical Teams International] The health lessons in the curriculum are delivered by Community Health Facilitators (CHF). Each CHF works with several mothers’ groups under the Care Group Model. The curriculum consists of five modules covering Maternal & Neonatal Care; Immunization; Diarrhea; Acute Respiratory Infection; and, Nutrition and Breastfeeding. As a preface to the health modules, there is a Foundational Module that introduces a holistic view of health with a basis in scripture and the Christian faith.