Tool for improving behavior change communication in child survival and community development programs. This Facilitator’s Guide has been written for trainers to teach others about Barrier Analysis and/or to learn the technique themselves. It guides trainers through a step-by-step process for conducting the analysis and provides background information on the technique as well as some basic information on behavior change …
Testing innovative maternal, newborn, and child health approaches to serve vulnerable communities: USAID’s partnerships with 14 International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) through the Child Survival & Health Grants Program in 16 countries
This brief provides an overview of the international nongovernmental organizations-designed innovations currently supported by the Child Survival and Health Grants Program, and the operations research poised to advance policies and strategies at the national and global levels.
Final Reports for Child Survival Health Grants Program Projects
List of all PVOs/NGOs and countries that have had a Child Survival Health Grants Program grant can be found here.
Community Case Management Essentials – Treating Common Childhood Illness in the Community: A guide for program managers
This Guide provides an overview of and evidence for community case management (CCM), and introduces a results framework as an organizing principle to guide decision-making for planning and managing CCM. The Guide also describes how to conduct a situation analysis and accomplish each of the four intermediate results of the results framework. Download the guide here.
Child Survival and Health Grants Program Health Systems Strengthening Technical Reference Materials
This Technical Reference Materials (TRM) document is intended to serve as a basic introduction to Health System Strengthening (HSS) issues relevant to community-based child survival (CS) and health programs, and to facilitate access to key resources in each of the areas defined as Health System (HS) building blocks. In-depth technical, as well as contextual information is needed to apply many …
Return to Sexual Activity and Modern Family Planning Use in the Extended Postpartum Period: An Analysis of Findings from Seventeen Countries
This paper examines the relationship of menses return, breastfeeding status, and postpartum duration on return to sexual activity and use of modern family planning among postpartum women. This paper presents results from a secondary data analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys from 17 countries. For postpartum women, the return of menses, breastfeeding status, and postpartum duration are significantly associated with …
Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP)
The Global Action Plan for Prevention and Control of Pneumonia (GAPP) has been developed in order to increase awareness of pneumonia as a major cause of child death, call for scaling up the use of interventions of proven benefit, and provide guidance on how this can be done. The GAPP calls to action a broad coalition of global and national …
Diarrhoea : Why children are still dying and what can be done
This report sets out a 7-point strategy for comprehensive diarrhoea control that includes a treatment package to reduce child deaths, and a prevention package to reduce the number of diarrhoea cases for years to come. The report looks at treatment options such as low-os molarity ORS and zinc tablets, as well as prevention measures such as the promotion of breastfeeding, …
Strengthening Health Systems to Improve Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health Outcomes: A Framework A “How To” Guide
This brief document illustrates how the framework can assist professionals working in the field in the design and implementation of initiatives aimed at improving MNCH.