Community Health Network Fall Meeting

October 11 & 12, 2012

Call to Action to End Preventable Child Deaths: The INGO Response
Meeting Objectives
1) Generate technical dialogue to best contribute to ending preventable maternal and child deaths.
2) Strengthen partnerships among participants to advance collaborative Community Health efforts.
3) Finalize CORE Group’s Working Groups FY13 Workplans, and provide technical updates.

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 Pre-Meeting Sessions

9:00–10:45 Essential Nutrition Actions Orientation – Agnes Guyon, JSI and SPRING Project
11:00–12:45 Kangaroo Mother Care Orientation – Stella Abwao, Save the Children
2:30–4:30 CORE Group Board of Directors Meeting
2:00–5:00 Strengthening National Malaria Control Efforts through Community-Based Strategies: The President’s Malaria
Initiative Malaria Communities Program (Grantee Panel with Admiral Ziemer 2-3 pm, Poster
Presentations/Networking 3-5 pm – FREE and All are Welcome at FHI 360 Globe Theater)

Thursday, October 11, 2012

8:15–9:00 Registration. Opening: Sponsored tables
Welcome and Announcements
9:00–9:15
CORE Update
Plenary: Ending Preventable Child Deaths – Next Steps [Academy Hall]
 Amie Batson, USAID Deputy Asst. Administrator, Bureau for Global Health
9:15–11:00  World Café Table Discussions
 Participant Feedback / Comments
 Synthesis / Observer Remarks by USAID Observers
11:00–11:30 Break: Sponsored Tables ~ Malaria Communities Program Posters
11:30–12:30 Dory Storms Award Winners – Abdullah Baqui (11:30–12) and Jane Vella (12–12:30)
Lunch Conversations (12:45–1:20): Join Abdullah Baqui ~ Jane Vella ~ Marge Koblinsky, CSHGP MNH Review ~
12:30–1:30
Connie Gates, Jamkhed CRHP and CORE Group Practitioner Academy
Concurrent Technical Sessions
1. CSHGP Program Learning Cross-Cutting Review – David Pelletier, Cornell; Jim Foreit, Consultant, David
Marsh, Save the Children; Marge Koblinsky, USAID; Karen LeBan, CORE Group
2. Prevention of Prematurity and Stillbirth – Carolyn Kruger, PCI; James Litch, GAPPS
1:30–3:00 3. mHealth and INGO progress – Andrea Cutherall, FH; Mike Frost, JSI; Gillian Javetski, Dimagi; Paul
Perrin, CRS
4. CRS Café Model – Bob Grabman, CRS
5. Office Hours with Jane Vella: What’s Next for Dialogue? – Jane Vella; Valerie Uccellani; and Kris Britt,
Global Learning Partners
3:00–3:30 Break: Sponsored Tables ~ Malaria Communities Program Posters
Working Group Technical Discussion and Planning Time. Everyone is invited to attend any group’s gathering;
contribute your interests, concerns and ideas. See meeting details for more information on possible scheduled
3:30–5:00
technical presentations as well. Working Groups: Nutrition, Safe Motherhood/Reproductive Health,
Community Child Health, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social and Behavior Change, Malaria, HIV & TB (joint mtg).
Happy Hour. Bistro Bistro, Dupont Circle. Cash bar, appetizers on us! All welcome.
5:30–7:00
A two-minute walk south to 1727 Connecticut Ave.
7:00–9:00 Dinner, informal, ad hoc group to form at Happy Hour
Friday, October 12, 2012

8:30–9:00 Registration and Breakfast ~ Sponsored Tables

9:00–9:15 Morning Announcements and Warm Up
Powerbreakfast: Networking and Technical Roundtables. Dialogue with the experts: choose two thirty-
minute sessions for interactive learning and discussion. [Academy Hall, except as noted]

Cervical Cancer ~ Child Safeguarding in the Health Sector ~ Core Group Polio Project ~ Gestational Diabetes ~
Integrating State of the Art Guidance into National Programming ~ It’s Not Easy Being Green: Biodiversity ~
9:15–10:30
Making IMCI Work for More Children: Catching Kids with TB ~ New Angles on Corporate Social Responsibility
~ Nutrition Program Design Assistant Tool ~ PPH and PE/E ~ Practical Skills for the Field, the Office, and Life in
General ~ Stillbirth Research Findings ~ Support to Missions in Performance Monitoring and Evaluation at
USAID ~ “Sustainable” – What Do You Mean? ~ Tool for TA on Behavior Change

10:30–11:00 Break: Sponsored Tables ~ Malaria Communities Program Posters

Concurrent Technical Sessions

1. Integrated Community Case Management Program Review – David Marsh, Save the Children
2. CHW Evidence Review – Henry Perry, JHSPH
3. Local Determinants of Malnutrition: Formative Research and Programmatic Implications – Kathryn
11:00–12:30
Reider, World Vision; Andrea Cutherell, FH; Sarah Borger, FH; Carolyn Wetzel, FH; Justine Kavle,
MCHIP/PATH
4. What’s New in Immunization and Where Do PVOs Fit In? — Rebecca Fields, JSI; Robert Steinglass, JSI

Lunch (Roundtables 12:45–1:20)

12:30–1:30 Care Group Training Manual ~ What To Do About Poo? ~ The Latest and Greatest in HIV/AIDS ~ CSHGP
Evaluation Results & Learning ~ Equity Interest Group

Concurrent Technical Sessions

1. Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health – Paul Sommers, Mercy Corps / TOPS
2. Equity – Jennifer Luna, ICF; Kai Matturi, Concern Worldwide
1:30–3:00 3. What’s next for CCM? – Laban Tsuma, MCHIP; Heather Papowitz, UNICEF; Sarah Anderson, SC4CCM
4. Inknowvation: Simple Techniques for Tapping into All the Knowledge in the Room – Lani Marquez,
URC/CHS; Lenette Golding, CARE

Compile Meeting Recommendations

3:00–4:00  Working Group Report Out
 Closing Address (David Pelletier, Cornell University)

4:00–5:00 Optional Working Group/Interest Group Time