CORE Group Welcome and Strategic Planning May 6, 2014

Contributors and Sponsors• USAID• MCHIP –Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program• CORE Group Polio Project• Concern Worldwide• Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health• Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Rights• JSI/Advancing Partners & Communities• Philips Healthcare• Translating Research into Action Project/URC• Worldwide Diagnosis• Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) Task Force

Spring Meeting• Capacity Building—what CORE does• Critical to global work• Country level initiatives

• Health for All Starts in the Community• Primary health care• Universal health coverage• Community engagement

• Looking to the future…what is our role in the changing environment of global health and development

Board • Role of Board• Current Board members: Mary Hennigan (Catholic Relief

Services); Joe Ichter (External); David Pyle (External); Eric Starbuck (Save the Children); Alan Talens (World Renew)

• Outgoing board members: • Demet Güral, Vice-Chair (Pathfinder)• Diana Dubois, Secretary (Wellshare)• Jed Hoffman, Treasurer (World Vision)• Jaime Carrillo (Medair)• Areana Quiñones (External) • Bakary Sidibe (External)

Board and Staff Strategic Planning Retreat

Areana Quiñones

Bakary Sidibe

Jaime Carrillo

Demet Güral

Diana Dubois

Jed Hoffman

Elections• New board slate• Chair: Judy Lewis (External)• Vice-Chair: Erin Stieber (External)• Secretary: Jenn Weiss (Concern Worldwide)• Treasurer: Dennis Cherian (World Vision)• At Large: Sonya Funna Evelyn (ADRA); Janine Schooley (PCI

Global); Graciela Salvador-Davila (Pathfinder); Geraldine Sicola (Aga Khan Foundation)

• Need to vote by 2 pm today—must have vote of majority of members for slate to be approved

• Dory Storms ballot due at same time

Vision and Mission

VISION Healthy communities where everyone

can attain health and well-beingMISSION

Improve and expand community health practices for underserved populations, especially women and children, through collaborative action and learning

Key Strategic Priorities• Hub of community health innovation and

learning• Implementation science informed by practice

• Increase global participation in our collaborative learning model—build strategic capacity• Engage in priority global health initiatives • Advocate for community participation and

intervention• Expand impact through innovative business and

governance models

CORE Evidence Based Tools developed in collaboration

with implementing PVOs

Updates• CSHGP evaluation released last fall• Letter to USAID administrator signed by 38 member organizations

• “We are an organization strongly committed to the reduction of maternal and child mortality using CORE Group’s innovative learning environment, our collective knowledge, and coordinated responses to global child survival challenges.”• Collaboration between U.S. PVOs and priority APR countries

• Support for the continuation of CORE Group and the replication of CORE Group-like networks in global regions

• “A Promise Renewed: International NGOs Can Work Together at Scale to End Preventable Maternal, Newborn, and Child Deaths”

USAID Response

• thanked us for our commitment to broader health and development in meeting MDGs

• CSHGP evaluation will be used to better leverage assets of US NGOs and other partners to accelerate sustainable progress toward ending preventable deaths through better ownership at the country level

• Development landscape changing due to the economic transition of health allowing us to think bigger and more boldly about new opportunities

Time of Transition

• Opportunities• Challenges • Not just what we have accomplished but

what we can do in the future

Coming Week – Working Groups

• Heart and soul of CORE • Bring issues of importance to larger audience• Use members’ field experiences to examine challenges and

obstacles• Share best practices, and co-create tools and guidance to

overcome implementation bottlenecks • Discuss current Working Groups given the number of new

forums in global health• Are Working Groups still vital? • Configured to best meet the needs of members? • Are there new issues to be addressed?

Questions to think about…

1. What community health issues keep you up at night?

2. List up to 3 Communities of Practice/Working Groups

(existing or new) that would be important to your

work.

3. What are 2 ways Communities of Practice/Working

Groups can be more effective?

4. Is your Working Group vital to the evolving global

health agenda?

Coming Week – Future Directions• Shifting paradigms affecting INGOs• Focus on elimination of preventable maternal and child deaths• Advocate for NGO voice in discussions about future program

directions to meet this goal• Demonstrate power of collaboration in CORE evidence based

practice and among CORE members in countries• Support the community perspective, civil society involvement

and increasing local capacity

“Alone we can do so little together we can do so much."

Helen Keller