CCIH 2012 Conference, Breakout 3, Lauren VanEnk, It Takes a Village: Engaging the Christian Community in Family Planning Success, Revitalizing Family Planning in CHAs
Lauren VanEnk of the Institute for Reproductive Health discusses the partnership with the Christian Health Association of Kenya enabling community health workers to play a larger role in delivering family planning.
This document outlines a capacity building strategy for a project to revitalize family planning services through Christian Health Associations in Africa. The strategy includes 5 components: 1) Establishing a supply chain to ensure community health workers have access to family planning commodities. 2) Training community health workers and supervisors on family planning service provision. 3) Developing reporting mechanisms for community health workers to report activities. 4) Creating a supportive environment through sensitizing religious leaders. 5) Providing ongoing supervision and support to community health workers. The goal is to strengthen the capacity of Christian Health Associations to improve access to family planning information and services.
1) The document describes Uganda's experience with a quality assurance and quality improvement approach along the health facility-community continuum for treating malnutrition.
2) It discusses using a coaching/mentoring model at health sites to improve quality and introducing a case management approach.
3) The NuLife project in Uganda from 2008-2011 took an integrated approach involving strengthening policies, improving service delivery through quality clinics and community linkages, and establishing local RUTF production and supply chains to treat malnutrition.
This document discusses the creation of relevant monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks for Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) programs. It outlines the need for harmonized global indicators to measure NACS interventions internationally. Steps are provided for developing a NACS M&E framework, including assessing program effectiveness, identifying best practices, and reporting results. Thematic areas and examples of NACS indicators are given. The document concludes by addressing gaps in NACS M&E and next steps, such as measuring quality of services and strengthening community linkages.
PTT is the largest bulletin board system (BBS) in Taiwan with over 1.5 million registered users. It has been influential in Taiwanese culture and known for being non-commercial since its founding in 1995. PTT allows for extensive user interaction through message boards, chat rooms, and commenting features. It has played an instrumental role in spreading slang words and mobilizing support for social causes. However, PTT remains primarily closed to non-registered users and some efforts to make it more open online have failed due to its complex forums and navigation system.
A Family in Christian Service - Matthew RathbunMatthew Rathbun
Matthew Rathbun's presentation on being a Christian Family that serves Christ. Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues
The document provides guidance on Christian preparation for marriage and married life. It discusses choosing a believer as a spouse, priorities like character over external beauty, and blessings of marriage according to Psalm 128. It outlines responsibilities for husbands like being the family priest and leader, and responsibilities for wives like being a helper and administrator. It also discusses communication, conflict resolution, parenting, and maintaining a redemptive marriage.
Family Communication by Fr. Joebeth Vivo, SDBJP2CYMC
This document discusses the importance of Christian families and effective parent-child communication. It notes that modern issues like a fast-paced life and secularization influence adolescents' values. It emphasizes that families are rooted in Christ and should guard, reveal, and communicate love as a community. The document recommends that parents understand, connect with, motivate, and support their teens through open communication and discussion. It stresses that youth and family ministries in the Church should help promote strong Christian families and ensure pastoral care for families.
The document discusses decentralized "starfish" organizations that lack central leadership compared to centralized "spider" organizations. It notes that starfish organizations consist of many small, non-hierarchical groups coordinated by catalysts rather than CEOs and held together by shared ideology. The document outlines strategies for combating starfish organizations, such as targeting their ideology or incentivizing centralization, and argues that the optimal structure depends on factors like security needs and profit motives.
This document outlines a capacity building strategy for a project to revitalize family planning services through Christian Health Associations in Africa. The strategy includes 5 components: 1) Establishing a supply chain to ensure community health workers have access to family planning commodities. 2) Training community health workers and supervisors on family planning service provision. 3) Developing reporting mechanisms for community health workers to report activities. 4) Creating a supportive environment through sensitizing religious leaders. 5) Providing ongoing supervision and support to community health workers. The goal is to strengthen the capacity of Christian Health Associations to improve access to family planning information and services.
1) The document describes Uganda's experience with a quality assurance and quality improvement approach along the health facility-community continuum for treating malnutrition.
2) It discusses using a coaching/mentoring model at health sites to improve quality and introducing a case management approach.
3) The NuLife project in Uganda from 2008-2011 took an integrated approach involving strengthening policies, improving service delivery through quality clinics and community linkages, and establishing local RUTF production and supply chains to treat malnutrition.
This document discusses the creation of relevant monitoring and evaluation (M&E) frameworks for Nutrition Assessment, Counseling, and Support (NACS) programs. It outlines the need for harmonized global indicators to measure NACS interventions internationally. Steps are provided for developing a NACS M&E framework, including assessing program effectiveness, identifying best practices, and reporting results. Thematic areas and examples of NACS indicators are given. The document concludes by addressing gaps in NACS M&E and next steps, such as measuring quality of services and strengthening community linkages.
PTT is the largest bulletin board system (BBS) in Taiwan with over 1.5 million registered users. It has been influential in Taiwanese culture and known for being non-commercial since its founding in 1995. PTT allows for extensive user interaction through message boards, chat rooms, and commenting features. It has played an instrumental role in spreading slang words and mobilizing support for social causes. However, PTT remains primarily closed to non-registered users and some efforts to make it more open online have failed due to its complex forums and navigation system.
A Family in Christian Service - Matthew RathbunMatthew Rathbun
Matthew Rathbun's presentation on being a Christian Family that serves Christ. Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues
The document provides guidance on Christian preparation for marriage and married life. It discusses choosing a believer as a spouse, priorities like character over external beauty, and blessings of marriage according to Psalm 128. It outlines responsibilities for husbands like being the family priest and leader, and responsibilities for wives like being a helper and administrator. It also discusses communication, conflict resolution, parenting, and maintaining a redemptive marriage.
Family Communication by Fr. Joebeth Vivo, SDBJP2CYMC
This document discusses the importance of Christian families and effective parent-child communication. It notes that modern issues like a fast-paced life and secularization influence adolescents' values. It emphasizes that families are rooted in Christ and should guard, reveal, and communicate love as a community. The document recommends that parents understand, connect with, motivate, and support their teens through open communication and discussion. It stresses that youth and family ministries in the Church should help promote strong Christian families and ensure pastoral care for families.
The document discusses decentralized "starfish" organizations that lack central leadership compared to centralized "spider" organizations. It notes that starfish organizations consist of many small, non-hierarchical groups coordinated by catalysts rather than CEOs and held together by shared ideology. The document outlines strategies for combating starfish organizations, such as targeting their ideology or incentivizing centralization, and argues that the optimal structure depends on factors like security needs and profit motives.
Family_Physician_Kit_PowerPoint_PresentationWellness Mama
The document describes the dōTERRA Family Physician Kit, which contains six essential oils (Lavender, Lemon, Peppermint, Melaleuca, Oregano, and Frankincense) and four essential oil blends (Deep Blue, Breathe, DigestZen, and On Guard) that form a natural healthcare solution for families. It provides information on the uses, benefits, and safety of dōTERRA's Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils. It also describes the opportunity to become a dōTERRA Wellness Advocate and receive discounts on products and the ability to earn sales commissions.
OrientDB vs Neo4j - Comparison of query/speed/functionalityCurtis Mosters
This presentation gives an overview on OrientDB and Neo4j. It also compares some specific querys, their speed and the overall functionality of both databases.
The querys might not be optimized in both cases. At least they have the same outcome and are both written as querys. For sure in Neo4j you should do this in Java code. But that is way harder to write, so this presentation is more like a direkt comparision instead of really getting the best results.
Also it's done with real data and at the end round about 200 GB of data.
Are you nervous about an upcoming presentation? Use these tips to step up your presentation game and give the audience an experience they won't forget.
The document discusses Joomla, an open source content management system. It provides information on its history and goals, philosophy of being open source and focusing on usability. The architecture is explained, with Joomla at the core and extensions, templates, plugins surrounding it. The framework principles are also summarized, including following object oriented and modular design patterns.
La familia es el primer lugar donde se aprenden los valores.
Necesitamos en nuestra sociedad de familias ejemplares que vivan y transmitan los valores.
Family systems theory views the family as an emotional unit where family members are interconnected and interdependent. Key aspects of family systems theory include non-summativity, circular causality, and homeostasis. The theory is used to understand how families adapt to stressors and aims to maintain equilibrium. While family systems theory provides a lens for examining family dynamics, it has limitations such as not resulting in testable hypotheses and focusing too much on patterns over change.
This paragraph describes the events of the Great Chicago Fire in chronological order, beginning with Daniel Sullivan noticing the flames and ending with the total number of buildings burned after the fire was out. Time clue words like "at around 8:30 pm", "By 9:30 pm", "In another 3 hours", and "It would be another day" indicate a chronological structure.
This document contains information about two confectionery companies - Cadbury and Nestle. It provides details about their history, products, market share, competitors, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It also analyzes their marketing strategies.
The key points are:
1) Cadbury has the largest market share in India at 72% while Nestle has 24%. They are the top two players in the Indian chocolate market.
2) Cadbury's popular brands are Dairy Milk, 5 Star and Perk while Nestle's are KitKat, Munch and Milkybar.
3) Nestle launched an advertising campaign targeting Cadbury's tagline to increase its market share and challenge Cad
This document discusses various topics related to surgical infections including:
1) Factors that increase surgical infection risk such as complicated/longer operations, immunosuppressed patients, and implant use.
2) Classification of surgical infections based on outcome, time of onset, and wound contamination risk.
3) Determinants of infection including microbial pathogenicity and host defenses.
4) Prevention strategies like proper patient preparation, strict asepsis, and prophylactic antibiotics.
5) Types of surgical infections affecting soft tissue or body cavities.
The Georgia Room Presents- First Wednesdays: Archiving and Preserving Family ...Adriana Bell
The first presentation in a series that works towards instructing the public on proper methods for preserving family papers and conducting genealogy research.
The document provides an overview of the LIFT project, which aims to improve linkages between HIV/AIDS clinical services and economic strengthening programs. It discusses research conducted in Ethiopia and Namibia to identify challenges and promising practices around referral systems. Key findings include the importance of designated case managers, community coordination committees, and formalizing bi-directional referral processes between clinics and community organizations. The LIFT model proposes strengthening existing economic strengthening services, identifying gaps, and engaging the private sector to improve sustainable employment for clients of HIV clinical programs.
Collaboration with Government for Ensuring Quality Nutrition Services Present...CORE Group
Theme 1: The experiences in Malawi and Nigeria showed that gaining buy-in from governments to test improved nutrition services approaches was achieved through advocacy, partnership development, and taking time to build relationships with local leadership. This allowed the approaches to be customized to each country context.
Theme 2: Initial implementation phases in both countries identified important lessons about integrating the approaches into health systems and scaling up. This included strengthening the health system beyond pilot sites and integrating indicators and guidelines.
Theme 3: Sustaining government ownership required strong political will, empowering communities, integrating services across sectors, defining roles and responsibilities, and ongoing capacity building. Future efforts should focus on sharing lessons learned, updating guidelines and training, and integrating quality
Launch of Resource Toolkit for Establishing and Integrating Human Milk BanksLeith Greenslade
Ensuring equitable access to human milk for all infants has the potential to save countless lives, especially vulnerable neonates, such as those born low-birthweight or premature. Yet many do not have access to their own mother’s milk in the first critical hours or days of life. PATH has developed “Strengthening Human Milk Banking: A Resource Toolkit for Establishing and Integrating Human Milk Banks” as a compendium of standards to advance access to human milk for all babies. This toolkit is comprised of 11 separate core documents and accompanying materials—including templates, standards, and tools—to guide critical steps for establishing human milk banking as an integrated component within breastfeeding support and neonatal care, with in-depth focus on readiness, quality assurance, operations, auditing, training, monitoring and evaluation, and communications. These tools are intended to be utilized as a cohesive package, with embedded links throughout to orient and guide users to relevant resources. This toolkit, in its entirety, is freely available and globally accessible. The content was developed to be adaptable to local context requirements to maximize effectiveness and reach. Click here to view the materials
https://www.path.org/programs/maternal-newborn-child-health-and-nutrition/strengthening-human-milk-banking-resource-toolkit/
The Community Health Network Spring Meeting aims to generate collaborative action and learning to improve community health practices for underserved populations globally. Its vision is a world with healthy communities where no woman or child dies of preventable causes. CORE Group, a network of over 70 NGO, university, and government members, facilitates coordination, knowledge sharing, and partnerships to further this mission. Working groups address key health areas while tools and trainings help practitioners apply learning from the field.
This document discusses the value that schools of public health can provide to the global One Health network. It describes the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and its mission to promote education, research, and service in public health. ASPHER can contribute to One Health in four key areas: education and training, capacity building, surveillance, and applied research. It advocates for integrating a One Health approach across sectors through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and developing a global One Health network.
How to set up effective teams and team meetings to support improvements in supply chain practice among community health workers: Experiences from Malawi and Rwanda under the Supply Chains for Community Case Management project (SC4CCM), managed by JSI with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In Malawi, CHWs in team-supported districts had 14% fewer stockouts than those in comparison districts, while in Rwanda, CHWs in QC districts had 25% greater availability of the 5 community health products on the day of visit than the comparison group. Given that CHWs are at the last mile of the health care delivery system and supply chain, and are often not highly skilled, establishing teams that link supervisors and district management to the CHWs, creating a culture of problem solving to target ongoing challenges and using existing meetings in a more effective way can significantly improve supply chain practices and outcomes.
Presented by Yasmin Chandani at the 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Cape Town, South Africa in October 2014.
Latest Learning and Resources for iCCM_HeatonCORE Group
Rwanda implemented standardized resupply procedures and quality improvement teams or supply chain incentives to improve community health workers' supply chain knowledge and practices. This led to improved product availability, with quality improvement teams increasing availability by 25% and incentives by 7%. Key factors in the success were designing simple tools for community health workers, procuring products specifically for community case management, and establishing regular meetings focused on quality improvement concepts.
Using the health system to deliver nutrition interventions in BangladeshTransform Nutrition
This presentation by Masum Billah, iccdr,b was shown at the Transform Nutrition - Evidence for Action regional meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal on 8 July 2017. This one-day event shared Transform Nutrition evidence on key issues related to nutrition policy in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, lessons on strategies for change from other contexts and discuss the relevance and applicability of the research findings to policies/programmes that aim to address nutrition in South Asia.
The document outlines activities and priorities for FY14 and FY15 across multiple technical working groups within CORE Group. For FY14, upcoming activities include webinars, workshops, and dissemination of tools/guidance documents. FY15 priorities include expanding community case management programs, strengthening integration of health and development programs, and increasing focus on issues like maternal mental health and pediatric TB. The document provides updates on past accomplishments and outlines many proposed future activities and areas of collaboration between working groups.
The document introduces community health agents (CHAs) in Tanzania to improve maternal and child health outcomes. It outlines the CHA's role in 3 areas: 1) improving household and community health practices, 2) enhancing community-based case management of childhood illnesses, and 3) strengthening the local health system. The CHA's activities include distributing health technologies, educating communities, monitoring pregnancies, treating childhood illnesses, and linking communities to health services and planning. The goal is for CHA interventions to generate better health outcomes by improving access, quality, and efficiency of services.
This document outlines an initiative by the Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) to help health centers achieve Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition and meet Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through a 12-month learning collaborative program led by national experts at the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC). The goals of the program are to help health centers submit for NCQA PCMH recognition, attest to MU objectives to receive incentive payments, and identify future improvement areas. Health centers will receive guidance, tools, resources and consultations to achieve these goals in a cost-effective way through a collaborative learning approach.
Family_Physician_Kit_PowerPoint_PresentationWellness Mama
The document describes the dōTERRA Family Physician Kit, which contains six essential oils (Lavender, Lemon, Peppermint, Melaleuca, Oregano, and Frankincense) and four essential oil blends (Deep Blue, Breathe, DigestZen, and On Guard) that form a natural healthcare solution for families. It provides information on the uses, benefits, and safety of dōTERRA's Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils. It also describes the opportunity to become a dōTERRA Wellness Advocate and receive discounts on products and the ability to earn sales commissions.
OrientDB vs Neo4j - Comparison of query/speed/functionalityCurtis Mosters
This presentation gives an overview on OrientDB and Neo4j. It also compares some specific querys, their speed and the overall functionality of both databases.
The querys might not be optimized in both cases. At least they have the same outcome and are both written as querys. For sure in Neo4j you should do this in Java code. But that is way harder to write, so this presentation is more like a direkt comparision instead of really getting the best results.
Also it's done with real data and at the end round about 200 GB of data.
Are you nervous about an upcoming presentation? Use these tips to step up your presentation game and give the audience an experience they won't forget.
The document discusses Joomla, an open source content management system. It provides information on its history and goals, philosophy of being open source and focusing on usability. The architecture is explained, with Joomla at the core and extensions, templates, plugins surrounding it. The framework principles are also summarized, including following object oriented and modular design patterns.
La familia es el primer lugar donde se aprenden los valores.
Necesitamos en nuestra sociedad de familias ejemplares que vivan y transmitan los valores.
Family systems theory views the family as an emotional unit where family members are interconnected and interdependent. Key aspects of family systems theory include non-summativity, circular causality, and homeostasis. The theory is used to understand how families adapt to stressors and aims to maintain equilibrium. While family systems theory provides a lens for examining family dynamics, it has limitations such as not resulting in testable hypotheses and focusing too much on patterns over change.
This paragraph describes the events of the Great Chicago Fire in chronological order, beginning with Daniel Sullivan noticing the flames and ending with the total number of buildings burned after the fire was out. Time clue words like "at around 8:30 pm", "By 9:30 pm", "In another 3 hours", and "It would be another day" indicate a chronological structure.
This document contains information about two confectionery companies - Cadbury and Nestle. It provides details about their history, products, market share, competitors, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It also analyzes their marketing strategies.
The key points are:
1) Cadbury has the largest market share in India at 72% while Nestle has 24%. They are the top two players in the Indian chocolate market.
2) Cadbury's popular brands are Dairy Milk, 5 Star and Perk while Nestle's are KitKat, Munch and Milkybar.
3) Nestle launched an advertising campaign targeting Cadbury's tagline to increase its market share and challenge Cad
This document discusses various topics related to surgical infections including:
1) Factors that increase surgical infection risk such as complicated/longer operations, immunosuppressed patients, and implant use.
2) Classification of surgical infections based on outcome, time of onset, and wound contamination risk.
3) Determinants of infection including microbial pathogenicity and host defenses.
4) Prevention strategies like proper patient preparation, strict asepsis, and prophylactic antibiotics.
5) Types of surgical infections affecting soft tissue or body cavities.
The Georgia Room Presents- First Wednesdays: Archiving and Preserving Family ...Adriana Bell
The first presentation in a series that works towards instructing the public on proper methods for preserving family papers and conducting genealogy research.
The Georgia Room Presents- First Wednesdays: Archiving and Preserving Family ...
Similar to CCIH 2012 Conference, Breakout 3, Lauren VanEnk, It Takes a Village: Engaging the Christian Community in Family Planning Success, Revitalizing Family Planning in CHAs
The document provides an overview of the LIFT project, which aims to improve linkages between HIV/AIDS clinical services and economic strengthening programs. It discusses research conducted in Ethiopia and Namibia to identify challenges and promising practices around referral systems. Key findings include the importance of designated case managers, community coordination committees, and formalizing bi-directional referral processes between clinics and community organizations. The LIFT model proposes strengthening existing economic strengthening services, identifying gaps, and engaging the private sector to improve sustainable employment for clients of HIV clinical programs.
Collaboration with Government for Ensuring Quality Nutrition Services Present...CORE Group
Theme 1: The experiences in Malawi and Nigeria showed that gaining buy-in from governments to test improved nutrition services approaches was achieved through advocacy, partnership development, and taking time to build relationships with local leadership. This allowed the approaches to be customized to each country context.
Theme 2: Initial implementation phases in both countries identified important lessons about integrating the approaches into health systems and scaling up. This included strengthening the health system beyond pilot sites and integrating indicators and guidelines.
Theme 3: Sustaining government ownership required strong political will, empowering communities, integrating services across sectors, defining roles and responsibilities, and ongoing capacity building. Future efforts should focus on sharing lessons learned, updating guidelines and training, and integrating quality
Launch of Resource Toolkit for Establishing and Integrating Human Milk BanksLeith Greenslade
Ensuring equitable access to human milk for all infants has the potential to save countless lives, especially vulnerable neonates, such as those born low-birthweight or premature. Yet many do not have access to their own mother’s milk in the first critical hours or days of life. PATH has developed “Strengthening Human Milk Banking: A Resource Toolkit for Establishing and Integrating Human Milk Banks” as a compendium of standards to advance access to human milk for all babies. This toolkit is comprised of 11 separate core documents and accompanying materials—including templates, standards, and tools—to guide critical steps for establishing human milk banking as an integrated component within breastfeeding support and neonatal care, with in-depth focus on readiness, quality assurance, operations, auditing, training, monitoring and evaluation, and communications. These tools are intended to be utilized as a cohesive package, with embedded links throughout to orient and guide users to relevant resources. This toolkit, in its entirety, is freely available and globally accessible. The content was developed to be adaptable to local context requirements to maximize effectiveness and reach. Click here to view the materials
https://www.path.org/programs/maternal-newborn-child-health-and-nutrition/strengthening-human-milk-banking-resource-toolkit/
The Community Health Network Spring Meeting aims to generate collaborative action and learning to improve community health practices for underserved populations globally. Its vision is a world with healthy communities where no woman or child dies of preventable causes. CORE Group, a network of over 70 NGO, university, and government members, facilitates coordination, knowledge sharing, and partnerships to further this mission. Working groups address key health areas while tools and trainings help practitioners apply learning from the field.
This document discusses the value that schools of public health can provide to the global One Health network. It describes the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) and its mission to promote education, research, and service in public health. ASPHER can contribute to One Health in four key areas: education and training, capacity building, surveillance, and applied research. It advocates for integrating a One Health approach across sectors through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and developing a global One Health network.
How to set up effective teams and team meetings to support improvements in supply chain practice among community health workers: Experiences from Malawi and Rwanda under the Supply Chains for Community Case Management project (SC4CCM), managed by JSI with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In Malawi, CHWs in team-supported districts had 14% fewer stockouts than those in comparison districts, while in Rwanda, CHWs in QC districts had 25% greater availability of the 5 community health products on the day of visit than the comparison group. Given that CHWs are at the last mile of the health care delivery system and supply chain, and are often not highly skilled, establishing teams that link supervisors and district management to the CHWs, creating a culture of problem solving to target ongoing challenges and using existing meetings in a more effective way can significantly improve supply chain practices and outcomes.
Presented by Yasmin Chandani at the 3rd Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, Cape Town, South Africa in October 2014.
Latest Learning and Resources for iCCM_HeatonCORE Group
Rwanda implemented standardized resupply procedures and quality improvement teams or supply chain incentives to improve community health workers' supply chain knowledge and practices. This led to improved product availability, with quality improvement teams increasing availability by 25% and incentives by 7%. Key factors in the success were designing simple tools for community health workers, procuring products specifically for community case management, and establishing regular meetings focused on quality improvement concepts.
Using the health system to deliver nutrition interventions in BangladeshTransform Nutrition
This presentation by Masum Billah, iccdr,b was shown at the Transform Nutrition - Evidence for Action regional meeting in Kathmandu, Nepal on 8 July 2017. This one-day event shared Transform Nutrition evidence on key issues related to nutrition policy in Nepal, Bangladesh and India, lessons on strategies for change from other contexts and discuss the relevance and applicability of the research findings to policies/programmes that aim to address nutrition in South Asia.
The document outlines activities and priorities for FY14 and FY15 across multiple technical working groups within CORE Group. For FY14, upcoming activities include webinars, workshops, and dissemination of tools/guidance documents. FY15 priorities include expanding community case management programs, strengthening integration of health and development programs, and increasing focus on issues like maternal mental health and pediatric TB. The document provides updates on past accomplishments and outlines many proposed future activities and areas of collaboration between working groups.
The document introduces community health agents (CHAs) in Tanzania to improve maternal and child health outcomes. It outlines the CHA's role in 3 areas: 1) improving household and community health practices, 2) enhancing community-based case management of childhood illnesses, and 3) strengthening the local health system. The CHA's activities include distributing health technologies, educating communities, monitoring pregnancies, treating childhood illnesses, and linking communities to health services and planning. The goal is for CHA interventions to generate better health outcomes by improving access, quality, and efficiency of services.
This document outlines an initiative by the Michigan Primary Care Association (MPCA) to help health centers achieve Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) recognition and meet Meaningful Use (MU) requirements through a 12-month learning collaborative program led by national experts at the Primary Care Development Corporation (PCDC). The goals of the program are to help health centers submit for NCQA PCMH recognition, attest to MU objectives to receive incentive payments, and identify future improvement areas. Health centers will receive guidance, tools, resources and consultations to achieve these goals in a cost-effective way through a collaborative learning approach.
The Technical Working Groups (TWGs) aim to facilitate collaboration among MEPI schools on key themes. The TWGs include Community Based Education, Research Support Centers, Graduate Tracking, eLearning, Medical Education Research, and Competency Based Education. The TWGs will [1] share resources and best practices, [2] identify areas for collaborative research, and [3] provide guidance to strengthen activities at MEPI schools.
This document summarizes Pakistan's efforts to scale up rural sanitation following 2010 floods. It outlines that 48 million Pakistanis practice open defecation and rural sanitation access is only 29%. To address this, Pakistan implemented an integrated total sanitation model called PATS promoting improved sanitation and hygiene. The model includes demand creation, supply interventions, hygiene promotion, and wastewater management. The program aims to make 7.6 million people open defecation free by 2015 through community mobilization and behavior change campaigns. Key achievements include over 2.6 million people now living in open defecation free environments and establishing sanitation markets and training. Lessons learned emphasize sustained community involvement and introducing quality, sustainable solutions
This document provides details about the reproductive and child health program (NRHM) implemented by four non-governmental organizations (FNGOs) across three blocks in Kinnaur district. The objectives of the program are to increase family planning, awareness of health facilities, reduce prevalence of reproductive tract infections, and increase antenatal care, institutional deliveries, and immunization coverage. From 2007-2010, the FNGOs organized health camps, STI treatment, counseling for eligible couples and adolescents. They generated awareness through household visits, group meetings, and information materials. Networking with health centers was also strengthened.
The document outlines an approach for developing a customized capacity building plan. It introduces Management Sciences for Health (MSH) and their Building Local Capacity project, which uses a tailored approach to strengthen regional organizations. The session aims to familiarize participants with MSH's customized capacity building model and have them practice developing a plan. The model assesses capacity across various dimensions and identifies gaps to target for improvement through participatory planning.
This document outlines a project to strengthen family planning programs in faith-based health networks in Rwanda and Uganda. It aims to expand access to family planning information and services, including fertility awareness methods, through faith-based organization programs. An assessment of existing programs found gaps in training, supervision, data collection, commodity availability and community outreach. The project will address these gaps by expanding method availability, improving supportive supervision, developing community tools, ensuring commodity availability and raising community awareness. The goal is to involve communities and advance gender equality while expanding family planning choices available through faith-based networks.
This document provides an overview of the PERFORM project which aimed to improve health workforce performance in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda through better district-level management. Key aspects of the PERFORM approach included conducting situation analyses, developing integrated human resource and health systems strategies to address identified problems, implementing "bundles" of strategies, using reflective diaries, and funding some improvement activities. The project found that management competencies were strengthened and managers were able to develop appropriate strategies to improve performance despite resource constraints. Action research was found to be an effective approach but reflection was identified as a weak point. Lessons from partner countries and plans to build on the project are also summarized.
The strategic planning session established PalCare Network for York Region's vision, mission, core values, focus partners, and 5 strategic directions for the coming years. The strategic directions include maximizing organizational effectiveness, strengthening PallCare's role in regional planning, increasing advocacy and awareness, developing governance policies for accreditation, and measuring program outcomes to improve services. Specific strategic actions were identified for each direction.
The Bionutrition Core at the University of California, San FranciscoCTSI at UCSF
This service is provided by the Clinical Research Services (CRS) Program at the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. Learn more http://ctsi.ucsf.edu/our-work/clinical-research-services
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The document provides an overview of various organizational development concepts such as strategic planning, operational planning, governance, mission and vision statements, resource development, and human resources management. It discusses the purpose and components of strategic and operational planning, the importance of governance structures, how to develop mission and vision statements, and considerations for resource development and human resources management. The overall document serves as a useful reference for understanding different aspects of organizational capacity assessment and development.
This tool guides organizations through a capacity assessment, which will help local organizations assess and strengthen their institutional capacity and be able to compete for and secure international funding. Areas of assessment include governance, administration, human resource management, financial management, organizational management, and program management.
This presentation explores USAID's efforts to accelerate progress to end Tuberculosis (TB), the Global Accelerator to End TB, and how the agency is working with local organizations to fight TB.
The New Partnerships Initiative (NPI) aims to diversify USAID's partner base by engaging new and underutilized local partners, especially locally established organizations, through various partnership approaches. NPI prioritizes programs that show measurable impact and incentivize reform. It allows bureaus and missions to choose partnering approaches and target multiple types of organizations. NPI will provide direct awards and sub-awards to new/underutilized local partners, including locally established partners, and direct awards to partners who can leverage private/non-USG funding. It innovates in assistance approaches and award types to lower barriers and promote co-design with partners. NPI is currently finalizing demonstration projects in various countries and regions including
Dr. Monique Wubbenhorst, Deputy Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health, USAID covers the agency's mission and how they address treatment and prevention of disease, with a focus on strengthening partnerships with faith-based organizations.
This presentation covers the USAID Office of Maternal, Child Health and Nutrition; the Office of Health Systems; Office of Population and Reproductive Health; and the Center for Innovation and Impact.
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1. Revitalizing family planning in
Christian Health Associations
through community health
workers and religious leaders
Lauren VanEnk, MPH
Institute for Reproductive Health
Georgetown University
3. CHAK’s dream:
• That family planning (FP) education and options
will become easily accessible through a
community-based distribution system
• That FP will cease to be restricted to hospitals
where it is offered as medical treatment but
instead will be transformed into an opportunity
for Family Centered Health Care
• That FP will become a right for every woman
and family
- Dr. Samuel Mwenda, Director of
CHAK and ACHA Platform
4. Mobilizing FBOs to expand access
to and choice in FP
Donor
World Bank
Christian
Partners
Christian
Institute for Connections
Health
Reproductive for
Association of
Health (IRH) International
Kenya (CHAK)
Health (CCIH)
Strengthen the capacity of Christian Health Associations to
Goal
improve access to FP information and services, emphasizing
opportunities for regional scale-up.
5. Project Objectives
1. Strengthen FP service delivery
– TOT for master trainers
– Facility-based Trainings
– Community-based Trainings
2. Sensitize Religious Leaders
– Develop IEC materials for FBO context
– Informational workshops for pastors
3. Strengthen reporting process
– Develop CHW reporting tools
– Ensure supportive supervision provided to CHWs
4. Develop capacity building strategy for regional
implementation
– Introduce project at regional conference in Ghana
– Disseminate model at an end of project workshop
6. Pilot introduction of community-
based FP through CHAK facilities
• 67 community health workers (CHWs)
trained to provide FP information and
methods
• CHWs distributed pills, condoms,
Standard Days Method® (SDM)/
CycleBeads®, Lactational Amenorrhea
Method (LAM), referrals to facility for all
other methods
• SDM was introduced for the first time as
a new method, bringing new users to FP
7. Capacity Building Strategy
components
Establish Create a Ongoing
Establish Supportive
Training Reporting Supervision
5
Supply Chain Environment
Mechanism of CHWs
Capacity Building Strategy
In order for project This capacity building strategy Project managers/ To create a CHWs attend
to be successful, relies on a training curriculum supervisors must supportive supervision visits
CHWs must have for CHWs based on the WHO ensure CHWs are able environment for FP monthly to submit
access to FP flipchart for FP provision. to complete FP reports. provision at the reporting forms,
supplies. community level, a receive resupplies
Activities
Supervisors are equipped to It is equally important one-day workshop of FP commodities
provide this training as well as that facilities readily with pastors is (if possible), and
ongoing supervision to CHWs. receive CHW reports conducted. receive support and
and record them in refresher
their service statistics. Pastors create action instruction on
plans detailing how knowledge gaps.
they will use this
information with
their congregations.
• CHW Curriculum • Reporting forms • Bible Study guide • Supervision
• Presentations, including • WHO flipchart for checklist
• Knowledge
Tools
HTSP FP provision
• WHO flipchart for FP • HTSP Improvement
provision presentation Tool
• Client cards
8. Establish Supply Chain
Must Haves:
• Pills, condoms, and
CycleBeads at the
community level
• Stakeholder
involvement
9. Training
Must Haves: Tools:
• Work with existing • CHW Curriculum
cadre of CHWs • Presentations, including
HTSP
• WHO flipchart for FP
provision
• Client cards
10. Establish Reporting
Mechanism
Must Haves: Tools:
• Tested reporting forms • Reporting forms
• Facility staff
understands their role
• MOH buy-in
11. Create a Supportive
Environment
Must Haves: Tools:
• Pastors willing to share • Bible study guide
health information with • WHO flipchart for FP
their congregations provision
• HTSP presentation
12. Ongoing Supervision of
CHWs
Must Haves: Tools:
• Stakeholder • Supervision checklist
involvement • Knowledge
• Incentive for CHWs Improvement Tool
• Capable supervisors
equipped to support
CHWs
13. Capacity Building Strategy
components
Establish Create a Ongoing
Establish Supportive
Training Reporting Supervision
5
Supply Chain Environment
Mechanism of CHWs
Capacity Building Strategy
In order for project This capacity building strategy Project managers/ To create a CHWs attend
to be successful, relies on a training curriculum supervisors must supportive supervision visits
CHWs must have for CHWs based on the WHO ensure CHWs are able environment for FP monthly to submit
access to FP flipchart for FP provision. to complete FP reports. provision at the reporting forms,
supplies. community level, a receive resupplies
Activities
Supervisors are equipped to It is equally important one-day workshop of FP commodities
provide this training as well as that facilities readily with pastors is (if possible), and
ongoing supervision to CHWs. receive CHW reports conducted. receive support and
and record them in refresher
their service statistics. Pastors create action instruction on
plans detailing how knowledge gaps.
they will use this
information with
their congregations.
• CHW Curriculum • Reporting forms • Bible Study guide • Supervision
• Presentations, including • WHO flipchart for checklist
• Knowledge
Tools
HTSP FP provision
• WHO flipchart for FP • HTSP Improvement
provision presentation Tool
• Client cards
14. Change in Pill Use and
SDM/CycleBeads Use Pre and Post
Community-based FP Provision
3500 350
3000 300
2500 250
2000 200
Jan-Feb
1500 150 2011
100 Jan-Feb
1000
2012
500 50
0 0
Pills dispersed CycleBeads
dispersed
Statistics from Chogoria Presbyterian Hospital
15. Changes in Injectable, IUD, and
Implant Use Pre and Post
Community-based FP Provision
1300 25 20
1250 20
15
1200
15
1150 10
10
1100 5
1050 5
0
1000 0
Implants
Injectables IUDs dispersed
dispersed
dispersed
Statistics from Chogoria Presbyterian Hospital
16. Lessons Learned
• No Product, No Program
• Lay the ground work:
advocacy and stakeholder
involvement is crucial
• Expanding the method mix
at the community level can
increase method use and
bring new users to FP
You can see here the 5 components of the strategy which are outlined in greater detail in a forthcoming report.
You can see here the 5 components of the strategy which are outlined in greater detail in a forthcoming report.
No Product, No Program. This couldn’t be more applicable for community-based family planning programs. Success hinges on the availability of family planning supplies, and CHWs rely on supervisors and project managers to ensure their availability. Stockouts are a common problem in most countries and even moreso within most CHAs. Special attention must be paid to addressing stockouts before the project begins, not after/during because then it is too late. If no formal CHW training program exists in-country, special attention must be given to communicating with ALL stakeholders about the project. Emphasis the credibility of CHWs to provide FP and distribute supplies. Ensure that facilities incorporate CHW reports into facility statistics submitted to the district and national level. This is especially important if CHWs in church-based networks visit government facilities rather than CHA facilities to pick up supplies and turn in reports.Introducing SDM in project sites brought renewed interest to family planning use. Project results showed that use of pills more than tripled as compared to the previous year, and uptake of CycleBeads--which was added to the method mix for the first time--was high. Use of implants and injectables also increased, indicating that the CHWs are referring clients to health facilities for methods they are not able to provide at the community level.