CORE Global Health Practitioner Conference, Fall 2014

1. Judith Robb-McCord—Project Director
Carolyn Kruger—Technical Team
Every Preemie – SCALE SCALING, CATALYZING, ADVOCATING, LEARNING, EVIDENCE-DRIVEN
CORE Group
Fall Meeting
2014

2. Every year about 15 million babies are born prematurely and more than one million babies die due to complications of preterm birth.
Prematurity is the leading cause of newborn deaths in the first four weeks of life and the leading cause of death among children under 5 around the world.
At the same time, low birth weight—or babies born too small—is a major contributor of newborn deaths globally.
WHY PREEMIES?

3. OUR FOCUS
Approximately 85% of all preterm births are moderate (32 to <37 weeks) and most of these babies can survive with essential newborn care. Every Preemie—SCALE will focus on moderate preterm newborns and will promote maternal and newborn management and care from the household/community to the from pre-pregnancy to the postnatal period.

4. Every Preemie—SCALE
(Scaling, Catalyzing, Advocating, Learning, and Evidence-Driven)
Five-year USAID/Washington Cooperative Agreement designed to provide practical, catalytic and scalable approaches for expanding uptake of preterm birth (PTB) and low birth weight (LBW) interventions in 24 USAID priority countries in Africa and Asia.
Every Preemie—SCALE

5. The Program will work with partners to identify and overcome bottlenecks to implementation and will significantly increase coverage of PTB and LBW evidence-based interventions in order to increase newborn survival.
 Global advocacy
 Demonstration countries
 Targeted technical assistance
 Implementation Research
 Capacity–building with local partners
 Small grants
Every Preemie—SCALE

6. Implemented by a consortium comprised of:
 Project Concern International (PCI)
 Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)
 American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)
PCI: leads community capacity building and mobilization
GAPPS: leads evidence and knowledge sharing, program learning, and Implementation Research (IR)
ACNM: leads health provider capacity building and performance improvement
EVERY PREEMIE CONSORTIUM

7. Core Package in all USAID priority countries will include:
Overall Country Situation Assessment
Local Partner and Resource Mapping
Evidence Toolkit for adoption and rapid dissemination of evidence-based PTB and LBW interventions,
Advocacy and Awareness Raising Module to guide communication on key messages & priority policy changes
Assessment findings will shape the
program’s response in Demonstration Countries, priorities
for targeted technical assistance, and potential
research.
CORE Package—24 Priority Countries

8. Country Demonstration Package
Four selected countries in partnership with USAID
①Stakeholder workshops: focus on advocacy, policy and key evidence;
②Implementation Research: identify solutions to barriers that inhibit availability and uptake of PTB and LBW interventions;
③Gender and barrier analyses: assist in addressing bottlenecks to care;
④Learning projects: demonstrate how to implement rapid scale-up of PTB and LBW interventions at the community and health facility levels; and
⑤Small grants: catalyze commitment and engagement among strategic country leaders from professional organizations, academia and local NGOs.
DEMONSTRATION COUNTRIES

9. TARGETED TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Countries ready to accelerate implementation of PTB and LBW interventions or request special inputs to evolving country programs:
- revision of policy
- revision of standards and protocols
- curriculum and training development
- health provider capacity building
- evidenced-based research
- support for HMIS
- overcoming certain bottlenecks
i.e. supplies, gender inequities, etc.
- implementing innovative and promising practices

10. Global Technical Working Group (TWG) on PTB and LBW Implementation Challenges and Solutions to:
 Refine IR priorities,
 Develop PTB and LBW
indicators, and
 Provide focused support
for PTB and LBW
interventions and
approaches.
PTB/LBW Global Technical Working Group

11. Collaboration with Global Partners
CORE Group
Maternal & Child Survival Project (MCSP)
Saving Newborn Lives (SNL)
Two other USAID Emerging Priorities Initiatives:
Pre eclampsia and Eclampsia Prevention and Management and Post–Abortion Care and Family Planning
Global Maternal/Newborn Technical Working
Groups
GDA: One Hundred Thousand Babies
Every Newborn Action Plan
GLOBAL WORKING GROUPS

12. Program Learning, Knowledge
and Collective Experience
Shared through:
Established global dissemination
networks, i.e. CORE Group, Healthy
Newborn Network
Regional and global learning events
Program Learning

13. Project Director: Judith Robb-McCord, PCI
Senior Program Manager/M&E: PCI/TBA
Technical Team;
James Litch- GAPPS
Suzanne Stalls- ACNM
Carolyn Kruger- PCI
Program Coordinator: TBA
E-mail:jmccord@pciglobal.org
Phone: 505-500-2636
EVERY PREEMIE—SCALE TEAM

14. Questions and Discussion
Discussion