This document provides an introduction and overview of CORE Group, a global non-profit organization working to improve community health practices for underserved populations. It outlines CORE Group's vision, mission, history, members, activities, and impact. Specifically, it discusses CORE Group's work promoting innovative approaches to primary health care through programs like Care Groups and community health workers. It also describes CORE Group's technical resources, working groups, global partnerships, and vision of healthy communities where no woman or child dies from preventable causes.

1. INTRODUCTION TO CORE GROUP
Judy Lewis, Board Chair, CORE Group
Karen LeBan, Executive Director, CORE Group
Tom Davis, Chief Program Officer Feed the Children
Janine Schooley, Sr. VP for Programs, PCI
Dennis Cherian, Sr. Director of Health, HIV and AIDS, World
Vision, Inc.
Innovative Approaches to Achieve Primary Health Care
Outcomes

2. SDGs
• End poverty
• End hunger, improve nutrition and promote
sustainable agriculture
• Attain healthy lives
• Provide quality education and life-long learning
opportunities
• Attain gender equality, empower women and
girls
• Ensure availability and sustainable use of water
and sanitation

3. Innovative Approaches to PHC
• Care Groups—mothers providing health
education and behavior change in households
• Reference Guide: Developing & Strengthening
Community Health Workers at Scale
• Economic and social empowerment in change:
women’s empowerment groups
• Citizen Voice and Action (CVA): transforming
unjust systems and structures

5. Foundation: Informal beginning 1997—
identified need by health professionals and
NGOs to work together
History: 2001 incorporated
25 NGOs receiving USAID Child Survival grants
USAID funded collaboration and knowledge
sharing

6. Vision: Communities where everyone can
attain health and well-being.
Mission: To improve and expand community
health practices for underserved
populations, especially women and
children, through collaborative action and
learning.

7. Without CORE Group…
Organizations struggle to
make lasting impact.

8. Realities of the field
With CORE Group…
resources go further
and work better.

9. Expanding membership to include NGOs outside
US
Secretariat model—multi-sector, multi-
organizational. Focus polio but expanded to
MNCH
– Angola
– Ethiopia
– India
– South Sudan

10. 54
• International
NGO
Members
26 • Associate
Organizations
30 • Individual
Associates
As of January 2014

11. CORE
Group

12. Global Policy
& Advocacy
Global Health
Initiatives
Program Learning
& Diffusion
Community Health
Network
Technical Working Groups
&
Practitioner Academy
70+ Members & Associates Collectively Reaching 720 Million People Worldwide
Coordination &
Collaboration
Building
Partnerships

13. Working Groups:
Community Child Health
HIV/AIDS
Malaria
Monitoring & Evaluation
Nutrition
Safe Motherhood & Reproductive Health
Social & Behavior Change
Tuberculosis

14. Interest Groups:
Adolescent Health & Wellbeing
Immunization
Maternal Mental Health
mHealth
Non-Communicable Diseases

15. Diffusion
of
Program
Learning
Website
&
Listservs
Social
Media
Webinars
Joint
Products
Trainings
& SOTAS
Semi-
Annual
Meetings

16. CORE
Group
Scaling Up
Nutrition
Roll Back
Malaria
Partnership
PMNCH
Child
Survival
C2A
Global Partnerships
&
Leadership
A world of healthy communities,
where no woman or child dies of preventable causes.

17. MNCH
Care Group
Model
CCM Essentials
Guide &
Graphic
C-IMCI
Framework
Taking Care of
Baby Flipbook
Nutrition
Essential
Nutrition
Actions (ENA)
Nutrition
Program
Design
Assistant
(NPDA)
Positive
Deviance
/Hearth
Guide
M & E
Knowledge,
Practice,
Coverage (KPC)
Training
Manual
Lot Quality
Assurance
Sampling
(LQAS)
Guide
Partnership
Defined
Quality (PDQ)
Guide
Behavior
Change
Designing for
Behavior
Change (DBC)
Curriculum
Barrier
Analysis
Guide
TB
Community-
Based TB
Programming
Guide
Program Planning & Technical Resources

19. www.coregroup.org