Care Group

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    Care Group Presentation

    This presentation describes Care Groups:  How they are formed, how they are used to cut child deaths and the results we have seen in using them. The URL is: This presentation describes Care Groups.

  • Online short course on how to conduct a Barrier Analysis Study

    Practical Guide for Barrier Analysis in French (2017)

    Barrier analysis is a rapid assessment tool used in behavior change projects. The purpose of barrier analysis is to identify behavioral determinants, so that more effective behavior change, communication messages, strategies, and supporting activities can be developed.

  • Care Groups Planning and M&E Tools

    We have posted several Care Group and Monitoring & Evaluation tools for your use.

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    CareGroupInfo.org Presentation Slides

    CareGroupInfo.org Presentation Slides

  • Results in Improving Hand Washing with Soap Using Care Groups

    This presentation describes the results of the CORE Group Social & Behavioral Change Working Group’s “Powerful to Change Analysis” of Hand Washing with Soap, looking at USAID-funded child survival projects that have had the best results in HWWS in order to identify some of the common elements in their approaches.  One commonality in these projects was having a systematic home visitation strategy (as used in Care Groups).

  • Care Group Indicator Gap Closure

    This presentation compares the indicator gap closure (i.e., performance index) on 13 “Rapid CATCH” indicators measured by 58 USAID-funded child survival projects ending between 2003 and 2009, and nine child survival projects (most from the same period, but one ending in 2010) using Care Groups.

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    Statistical Calculators and Worksheets

    This zipped file contains English and Spanish versions of Excel worksheets for calculating sample size (for one-time and repeat studies); generating indicator confidence intervals for both categorical and continuous data (for LQAS/SRS [d.e.=1] and cluster sampling [d.e.=2]); a worksheet that helps you choose interview areas for cluster sampling and LQAS (i.e, an automatic sampling frame); and LQAS tabulation tables where you plug in your data and project targets, decision rules are calculated automatically, and a sheet summarizes which project supervision areas are above and below target and above and below-average coverage.

  • Using Quality Improvement Verification Checklists (QIVC)

    Using Quality Improvement Verification Checklists (QIVC)

  • Care Group LQAS Example

    These files (zipped) provide an example of how LQAS can be used to periodically measure changes in behavior and provide concise feedback to each district on what they need to continue to work on.

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    Care Group Budget Template

    This Care Group Budget Template has been used by FH as a starting point for budget development in many of its CG projects.  The template can help you to remember important costs that should be included in most CG projects.

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