Core Inc

Programs: Maternal and child health:core group accelerated health impact by unifying member and partner organizations to implement high quality, community-focused maternal, newborn and child health (mnch) program around the world. These efforts are highlighted in the outputs of core group's volunteer working groups, which bring together experts around the world, to collaborate and develop technical guidance and toolkits; share evidence-based resources; host trainings, events, and webinars; and lead global efforts to empower communities for improved health. (see schedule o for the continuation)in 2017, through the maternal child survival program (mcsp) program, core group worked to promote the mcsp strategy with core group ichn members through research, km, learning, m&e, and applying best practices using different channels. Core group also produced several written products to guide mcsp country programs, developing a social accountability case study from malawi. The core group and its community health network, worked with who's partnership for maternal, newborn and child health to conduct interviews for a scoping exercise on investment in sbc for pmncha and community engagement. Core group/mcsp has led and participated in global coalitions, networks, and conferences to advance community health and civil society engagement (ch/cse), including two successful core group global health practitioner conferences convened in october 2016 and in april 2017 in washington dc. Our fall conference 2016 brought together 253 participants from 7 countries representing 75 organizations and 10 universities. An additional 48 remote participants from around the world joined in the live broadcasts of the keynote and plenaries, around the theme of community health transitions. In april 2017, the conference drew 237 participants from 7 countries representing 73 organizations and 6 universities. An additional 92 remote participants from around the world joined in the live broadcasts of the keynote and plenaries. Through the theme of "integrated approaches: the social & behavior change (sbc) key to community health," core focused on the essential role of integration in ensuring health for all through the lens of sbc. The conferences fostered relationships with key donors, community health network members, and other global stakeholders, and generated an improved understanding of the critical role for community health programming in the sdg era. The conferences provided opportunities for mcsp staff to actively participate in panel presentations and working groups while disseminating (and soliciting feedback on draft) tools and materials. Additionally, in march 2017, with unicef and usaid, core group assisted in the planning and implementation of the global institutionalizing community health conference in johannesburg, south africa. Nearly 400 community health champions from 44 countries, representing multiple sectors, gathered to share global and country specific evidence and lessons and identify opportunities and challenges - financial and human resources, programmatic, and socio-political - for institutionalizing community health as an integral component of primary health care in order to transform the future and ensure that every mother, newborn, and child not only survives but thrives in the sustainable development goals era.

nutrition and food security:core group, as part of the usaid-funded food for peace-funded (ffp) technical and operational performance support (tops) program, hosted the tenth tops/fsn network knowledge sharing meeting in washington, dc on july 19-20, 2017 with over 208 participants from 60 organizations and 12 countries attending 12 concurrent sessions, 17 table topics and three plenary sessions. Participants reflected upon the collective accomplishments of tops and its implementer-led community of practice, the fsn network, while exchanging promising practices and new learning around emerging food security and nutrition topics. In 2016-17, the tops knowledge management (km) team strengthened its engagement and collaboration with usaid food for peace (ffp) and with several of their key development partners and stakeholders, by designing and implementing dfsa review workshops in niger, ethiopia and drc. These workshops brought tops expertise directly to the field, and connected implementing staff with their washington-based colleagues in learning exercises that promoted program improvement and networking. - ethiopia dfap coordination meeting: december 5-6, 2016, 71 participants - ffp niger/burkina faso implementation review workshop: may 16-18, 2017, 49 participants - ffp drc development activities refine and implement workshop: october 23-25, 2017, 65 participants - capacity building events included a learning agenda workshop occurred from november 28-december 1, 2016 with 24 participants, and a video storytelling workshop, february 8, 2017, with 25 participants. Additionally, a video presentation of a look into spring's community nutrition activities in ntungamo, uganda, occurred on february 22, 2017, with 24 participants, a km4dev community of practice workshop, april 6-7, 2017, with 45 participants, and a ingenaes summit, january 23-25, 2017, with 22 participants. Additionally, the km team supported 20 in-person and/or online tops knowledge sharing events. The fsn network website has 2802 registered users, 38,233 total visitors, 37,509 unique visitors, and 38,582 total downloads. Many technology updated occurred this year on the website to make it more accessible. More than 2500 individuals subscribed to the fsn network newsletter, up about three percent from the previous year. Collecting event announcements, resources, job announcements, photos/videos, and other news from the fsn community, the km team published 49 issues (29 regular, 20 special editions). The knowledge management task force continued to develop and host learning events to address the knowledge and capacity gaps identified in an earlier member survey. These included an online session on 'learning from failure, and one on analyzing impacts beyond a program's m&e system (learning from the kore lavi experience: using vouchers to build markets,' with care). To continue making progress in identifying and fulfilling the knowledge needs of its members, the task force held four meetings in fy 17, featuring four knowledge management experts who shared their insights into and experiences of various initiatives and strategies to promote collaborative learning across their respective organizations. The km team also published four issues of the km task force newsletter to help the community learn more about km and integration of learning and collaboration into programming. The newsletter presented interviews with professionals, shared resources, and highlighted collaborative and learning techniques. The first two editions featured km pioneers nancy white, and bev and etienne wenger-traynor, as 'celebrity' interviewees. Through a tops micro-grant, core group developed an "emergency toolkit for food security and nutrition protection: cholera disease preparedness care group/ mother to mother support module. " this was shared with who, unicef, and ifrc in several countries affected by cholera, and translated into french and spanish. Core group also assisted helen keller international (hki) with knowledge management and logistics for a "francophone master trainers in the essential nutrition and hygiene actions framework for health and community workers. 27 participants from burkina faso, cameroon, c te d'ivoire, democratic republic of the congo, guinea, mali, niger, and senegal, were trained by hki. Core group also provided knowledge management services to usaid's center for resilience to build the real website and host publications and the newest research. Core assisted in the development of a learning agenda, and with the planning and logistics of the resilience evidence forum (ref). The ref enabled almost 200 representatives of usaid, other multi-lateral donors, united nations organizations, private and academic research institutions, and international non-governmental organizations to share and consolidate the emergent evidence and methodological approaches to resilience analysis; discuss ramifications of evidence for resilience policy and programming; and identify future directions and priorities for the resilience community of practice.

polio:core group facilitated and supported communications, program learning, and linkages between the core group polio project (cgpp) secretariat and field secretariats in ethiopia, india, nigeria, south sudan, and a regional office in kenya. Core group continued the development of a polio toolkit of field products that were created and effectively used by its ngo member organizations to plan polio activities, mobilize the population, deliver polio drops and other services, maintain surveillance for new cases, and monitor and evaluate program activities. Core group facilitated presentations by secretariat leaders at core group conferences. Core group also disseminated and shared cgpp's latest updates and highlights via updates on the core group website and a variety of social media platforms, including twitter, facebook, youtube, and linkedin. Additionally, we updated the core group polio website.

core member services:core group provided membership services and support to 45 member organizations, 30 associate organizations, 22 individual associates, 6 working groups and 7 interest groups for collaborating to end preventable maternal and child deaths, and to improve community health practices for underserved populations. In 2016-2017, core group also began a humanitarian-development task force to drive evidence on response and policy in the humanitarian-development nexus for practitioners. In september 2017, core group celebrated 20 years, and hosted a 20th anniversary gala that was attended by 150 core supporters. Core group offered new, easy-to-access resources and information on community health through digital engagement on the website and social media. Core group's resource-rich website hosted 40,137 unique visitors from some 200 countries. Core group hosted 15 webinars where global health practitioners shared key learnings with 1,185 individuals in the united states and 372 individuals abroad. Core group offered new, easy-to-access resources and information on community health through digital engagement on the website and social media. Core group's resource-rich website hosted 40,137 unique visitors from some 200 countries. In 2016-17, core group hosted 15 webinars where global health practitioners shared key learnings with 1,185 individuals in the united states and 372 individuals abroad. Core group developed a participatory facilitation techniques workshop curriculum, which equips trainers to lead a short skill-building workshop to provide meeting facilitators with some new "tools and techniques for facilitation. There were 8,747 subscribers to core group's 15 listservs (6 working groups, 7 interest groups, core group community, and young professionals network). On twitter, core group had more than 4,555 followers, and sent a total of 5,879 tweets. Core group also gained traction on other key social media outlets, with 1,630 linkedin group members and 92 new facebook likes for a total of 1,549. To increase engagement among the younger generation, core group had several events for the new young professionals network, fostering knowledge sharing and career development among professionals and students 21-35 years old. Core also began a mentorship program for young professionals in 2016-17.