COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK

ANNUAL SPRING MEETINGApril 22 – 26, 2013

Our Importance

CORE Group is a Member-led PVO that fosters collaborative action and learning to improve and expand community-focused public health practices for underserved populations around the world.

Home of the Community Health Network, which brings together member organizations, associates, scholars, advocates, and donors reaching 720 million people worldwide.

20Individual Associates

21

Associate Organizations

58 Member INGOs

Community Health Network

8 Technical Working Groups 5 Interest Groups

Program Learning & Diffusion1,336 participants in 15 learning events from 35 countries

7,381 listserv registrants : 2056 messages delivered10 new tools and guides : 70,000 website visitors

Global policy advocacy for Community HealthA Promise Renewed, Scaling Up Nutrition, CHWS

4 Polio Countries

136 Partners

Membership Changes

Congratulations to our newest Member:

Health and Development International

Congratulations to our newest Associates:

• Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirths

• JSI Research and Training• Kissito HealthCare Int.• Marie Stopes Int. – US• Medair• Planet Aid

Global Program Learning

Health Policy and Planning 2013: 1-13Community-based intervention packages facilitated by NGOs

demonstrate plausible evidence for child mortality impact

Global Health Science and Practice 2013: 1:1Reducing child global undernutrition at scale in Sofala

Province, Mozambique, using Care Group Volunteers to communicate health messages to mothers

FSN Network

• TOPS / FSN Network D.C. Meeting on Resilience – December 2012

• FSN Network Website: www.fsnnetwork.org

• FSN Network : New Knowledge Management Officer for On-line Communities – Patrick Coonan

FY13 ResourcesKnowledge Diffusion, CSHGP Program Learning, CCM, Equity, CHWs, Anemia, Nutrition, TB, Helping Babies Breathe

Food Security and Nutrition Network

CORE Polio Partners Project - Communication Efforts

Dimagi CommCare Learning Collaborative

PRIVATE ResourcesFoundations / Private DonationsMembership: Fees / Registration Combined Federal Campaign 88110

In search of FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES where CORE’s Knowledge Management, Networking Niche and Community Focus would be an ASSET

Networks Needed More than Ever

"Collaboration is imperative for

success. The complexity of

global health problems far

exceed the capacity of

individual organizations and

governments to deal with

them effectively.”

--James E. Austin, Harvard Business School

Why CORE Group?• Serves unique function as neutral

convener• Provides professional

development • Sets Program Learning agenda• Rapid global networking: creates

multidirectional linkages that connect all levels

• Fosters strategic collaboration• Rapid diffusion with uptake • No need to reinvent wheel• Increases ease and pace of field

impactPhoto courtesy of AMREF

Working together to create a world of healthy communities where no women or child dies of preventable causes

Thank you to our Working Group chairs

Community Child HealthHIV/AIDSMalaria Monitoring and EvaluationNutritionSafe Motherhood / Reproductive HealthSocial and Behavior ChangeTuberculosis

www.coregroup.org

CORE Group Polio Project

Congratulations

to our Polio Project colleagues from the US, Ethiopia and India for heroic efforts in the continued battle against polio.