This document outlines the upcoming activities, priorities, and accomplishments for several CORE Group working groups for FY2015 and FY2016. Key points include: - Webinars, surveys, and proposal submissions planned for various working groups in FY2015 - Continued focus on health systems strengthening, community case management, and integration across topics in FY2016 - FY2015 accomplishments included organizing sessions, conducting calls, and beginning development of guidance documents - Ideas for FY2016 include expanding integration efforts and disseminating tools

2. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• Webinar on Social Capital ( Will Story)
• CORE Group /CCH WG Members to submit proposal (s) for Panel Presentation
(s) at the Global Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Mexico City on October
18-21, 2015.

3. FY16 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
• Health Systems Strengthening and seeing that Community Health System is part
of the HSS will continue to be a priority topic for the CCH WG.
• CCM (Community Case Management) especially iCCM.
• Representing CORE Group in conferences and global fora.
• Explore integration of CMAM into iCCM in collaboration with Nutrition WG

5. FY 2015 ACCOMPLISHMENTS
 Organized a session on social drivers of HIV
epidemic.
 Conducted teleconference with HIV TWG list
serve members
 Started working on the development of PMTCT
option B+ pocket guide, plan to complete by
October 2015.

6. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• A survey will be conducted to answer
any need for the working group’s
structural change. (To be completed by
June 2015)
• Webinar on e-MTCT, by end of May 2015
• Finalize the development of PMTCT
option B+ toolkit (October 2015)

7. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
•Webinar on Global Fund new mechanism
by June 2015
•Dissemination of integration and
sustainability toolkits.

8. FY 2016 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
• Expand integration of HIV within MNCH areas.
• Promote dissemination of easy to use tools/job
aids for HIV program scale up
• Expand collaboration of partnership among
WG organizations.

9. FY 2016 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
• Promote community ART to improve
universal access to ARVs as a way to
control HIV epidemic.
• Promote the improvement of referrals
between ART clinics and social services
for ART scale up and social well being.

10. THANK YOU AND PLEASE WATCH OUT
FOR THE HIV WG SURVEY!

12. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• Informal lunches with organizations working in malaria:
• First lunch: April 29th in Baltimore. Co-hosted by JHU-CCP & CRS
• “Re-setting” the Malaria Working Group list serve
• Perhaps create new list serve only with active members
• Active members would abide to certain ground rules (eg. Frequency of meeting
attendance, active participation, etc)
• Database creation for ongoing malaria projects of CORE group partners involved
in the Malaria Working Group to increase exchanges and collaboration

13. FY16 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
One focus area:
- Starting in FY15: Integrating malaria in other health & non-health projects
- Develop SBC tools supporting countries in post-Ebola settings transition from
treating fever cases as malaria, back to testing before treatment
- White paper recommendation on malaria Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) use in
integrated Community Case Management programs, and guidance on next steps
when the RDT result is negative
- Members will continue to be active in external malaria forums and report back to
the Malaria WG, as needed

15. FY15/16 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• Adding ANC Observation and EmONC to the Rapid Health Facility Assessment
• Developing/collating basic M&E Training materials/guidance for front line field
staff
• Organize a webinar to orient CORE members on the Theory of Change

17. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
Essential Nutrition Actions (ENA) training completed in December 2014 and the new
ENA/EHA materials will be promoted this FY to partner organizations and the SUN
Network
Nutrition sensitive briefs including nutrition/agriculture and nutrition/ECD will be
finalized and promoted by the end of this FY in collaboration with TOPS and the
SBC WG
Integration of CMAM and CCM report was shared during this CORE meeting and
follow-up steps are being discussed in collaboration with the CCH WG
FANTA III finished a revision of the Nutrition Program Design Assistant (NPDA) tool
Monthly informational webinars will continue in May with the next topic being Trials for
Improved Practices (TIPS), a formative research technique
Quarterly business calls will continue with two more being held this FY

18. FY16 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
Food safety including mycotoxin contamination, food borne illnesses, and
environmental contamination is an area of interest and will be explored
Double burden of malnutrition, coexistence of under and over- nutrition, is an area of
interest and will be explored
Continue work on the following topics:
• ENA
• CMAM/CCM integration
• Nutrition sensitive integration
• Monthly informational webinars
• Quarterly business calls

20. FY15 UPCOMING ACTIVITIES
• Finalization of the Make Me a Change Agent CHW training manual
• Expansion of Journal Club and webinars based on feedback from Spring
Conference
• Finalization and dissemination of gender/nutrition technical brief. Upcoming
webinar!
• Identify intern for drafting methodology for DRR / SBC field manual
• Mapping of ECD / integration technical briefs
• Continue to collaborate with the TOPS SBC Task Force and Clean, Fed & Nurtured
Working Group
• Follow-up with the MCSP regarding collaboration
• Continue collaboration with the CORE Nutrition Working Group
• Follow-up to Population level Behavior Change Evidence Summit Plenary
outcomes

21. FY16 IDEAS & PRIORITIES
• Integration with other CORE working groups/ technical areas
• ECD
• Follow-up with small doable actions from the joint Nutrition/ SBC
working group session.
• Help the CORE Group figure out how to influence conference/
meeting participants to register well in advance of the
registration deadline.
• Explore options to work with the M& E working group to improve
SBC M & E

23. FY15 SMRH PRIORITIES
1. Support the Strategic Development Goals (MDGs):
Provide input into the draft on maternal, newborn and child health
1. Maternal Health:
ACCESS model to MNCH services
Respectful maternity and newborn care
3. Reproductive health:
Community level family planning services and products
3. Newborn and child health:
Essential newborn care/community level
Early Child Development/Nutrition
4. Adolescent health:
Rights based approach to prevention of early marriage and pregnancy

24. SMRH WG NEW APPROACH
1. Expand SMRH Group Leadership to include “Champion leaders” for SOTA priority
topics
2. Build consensus around selected “Purposeful” topics and “dig deep”- go beyond
group sharing and bring in “experts”
3. Integrate cross-cutting themes related to the priority topic; gender, nutrition, SBC
and M & E
4. Institute regular follow-up planning through conference calls and list serves
5. Support CORE and USAID Global initiatives and objectives
6. Increase awareness of global programs and disseminate findings, lessons, tools,
and resources ( Every Women Every Child, Survive and Thrive, WRA, Promised
Renewed, Every Preemie, etc).

25. WG RECOMMENDATIONS
Collaborate with Technical and global stakeholders and partnerships- increase
awareness and support for Global Initiatives
Focus on integration: Robust utilization of cross-cutting themes ; use a continuum of
care approach
Focus on credibility: Ensure evidenced-based approaches and ”go deep” into
learnings and best practices with experts
Form task forces when deliverable is identified- choose small, actionable items that
are time bound
Re-think purpose for WG and decrease “silo” thinking
Consolidate some WGs i.e., infectious disease