Child Survival Action Toolkit
The Child Survival Action (CSA) Toolkit is designed to support countries with planning, sharpening, and implementing activities aimed at accelerating reductions in child mortality beyond the newborn period in their national contexts. It is intended to be a resource for all actors engaged in planning, costing, implementing, and monitoring child health activities, including, national and sub-national program managers, policy makers, academics, professional associations, non-governmental organizations, and international agencies.
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Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This is a slide deck that details the CSA Results Framework for Accountability, Advocacy and Action.
Year Published: 2023 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This guidance describes a catalogue of indicators for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (MNCAH) that can be monitored through health management information system data. It is a module of the WHO Toolkit for Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) Data and links to relevant indicators from other programmatic modules of the WHO toolkit. The document provides guidance on possible analysis and visualization of the indicators, including considerations for interpreting and using the data for decision-making.
Year Published: 2015 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This handbook guides program managers and planners on caring for newborns and children in the community, including outlining a set of intervention packages and key decisions and actions required for country-level planning and implementation.
Year Published: 2022 | Resource Type: Action Plan | Languages: English
Document presenting the vision for the Child Survival Action (CSA) initiative, last updated February 2023.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English, French
This Child Survival Action plan template can help countries develop a medium term plan for prioritized actions to reduce child mortality
Year Published: 2023 | Resource Type: Report | Languages: English
Learn and share about the Child Survival Action (CSA) initiative with this two-page summary developed ahead of the 2nd Global Pneumonia Forum. More information on CSA here.
Year Published: 2022 | Resource Type: Presentation | Languages: English
Slide deck presenting the vision for the Child Survival Action Initiative, last updated November 2023.
Year Published: 2023 | Resource Type: Action Plan | Languages: English
The Blueprint for Advocacy and Action on Child Survival complements the CSA vision document and sets out a coordinated approach to advocacy that sees CSA permeate the highest levels of influence, decision-making, and accountability- both at the national level and globally.
It is intended to catalyze new momentum and a renewed movement, finishing the work that we started under the Millennium Development Goals to end preventable child deaths.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
The Child Survival Wheel provides an integrated framework of key interventions and actions proven to effectively protect, prevent, diagnose, and treat the leading causes of child death.
Year Published: 2020 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English, French
This tool, and accompanying handbook, is designed to cost community health programs and packages of services. Guidance is provided on how to use results to help assess performance, plan future services, and prepare investment cases for resource mobilization.
Year Published: 2023 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
The Countdown RMNCAH country and regional profiles present the latest evidence to assess progress in improving women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
The country-specific Child Survival Wheels illustrate progress for selected tracer indicators across three pillars and shows where urgent action is needed to protect, prevent, diagnose, and treat the leading causes of child death in that country.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Presentation | Languages: English, French
This template can be used to support a group exercise during a prioritization workshop.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
The purpose of this workbook is to assist ministries of health, health managers and practitioners in engaging with the private sector on delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health services in lower- and middle-income countries. The workbook suggests for countries to take an iterative approach, and the steps are supported by various guiding tools for the process.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
EQUIST helps to develop plans based on equity principles. It can be used to analyze bottlenecks for RMNH interventions, identify strategies to overcome bottlenecks, and develop scenarios and cost-comparisons.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
This tool outlines the main steps for planning and implementing a programme review for MNCAH. It includes a proposed agenda and templates for group work to support facilitation of an MNCAH program review workshop.Accompanying resources:Guide for conducting national and subnational programme reviews for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programme review data tool
Year Published: 2022 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
A systematic methodology used to prioritize and define a core set of indicators for monitoring the quality of facility-level care for children and young adults, and their metadata for progress tracking, accountability, learning and improvement, at facility, sub-national, national and global levels.
Year Published: 2021 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English, French
This guidance outlines a set of standardized indicators collected by community health workers on their activities and on the communities they serve.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This tool provides an overview of purpose, methodology, scope, and other considerations for MNCAH programme reviews.Accompanying resources:Facilitators’ guide for conducting national and subnational programme reviews for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthMaternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programme review data tool
Year Published: 2018 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English, French
This document provides guidance for establishing and conducting child death reviews as part of overall quality improvement.
Year Published: 2020 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This resource provides operational guidance for policy makers and program implementers on how stakeholder and community engagement can be incorporated into quality improvement initiatives for maternal, newborn, and child health, including conducting stakeholder and community mapping and analysis, establishing governance structure, and developing communication and advocacy strategies.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English, French
LiST is a modeling tool which allows users to estimate the impact of coverage change on mortality in low- and middle-income countries. It calculates the number of deaths averted under various scenarios, providing planners and decision-makers with an evidence-based approach for setting targets.
Year Published: 2021 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This modular-based training is designed to provide knowledge and skills on the basic principles of program planning for RMNCAH. The training modules specifically focus on the implementation planning cycle at sub-national level.
Year Published: 2024 | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
This tool provides proposed indicators/areas for gathering data and information needed to prepare for a programme review. It includes a Microsoft Excel-based tool to allow for country specific adaptation and simple built-in analyses.Accompanying resources:Facilitators’ guide for conducting national and subnational programme reviews for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent healthGuide for conducting national and subnational programme reviews for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Year Published: 2020 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This document provides globally established guidance on the contribution of community engagement in development practice as well as humanitarian action. The objective of the standards is to support implementation of high quality, evidence-based community engagement at scale in development and humanitarian contexts.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
The OneHealth tool is a modular software tool aimed at supporting national strategic health planning in low- and middle-income countries. The tool offers a comprehensive approach in linking targets for disease control and prevention programs to the necessary health systems investments.
Year Published: 2022 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This guidance provides countries with a conceptual framework for measuring primary health care (PHC) performance. It includes a menu of indicators to track and monitor progress in strengthening PHC-oriented health systems as an accelerator towards universal health care. Countries can use the framework and indicators to assess and monitor gaps and needs in PHC to guide actions and investments in improving essential services.
Year Published: 2018 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This document sets out the four strategic objectives of the quality of care (QoC) Network: leadership, action, learning, and accountability. The strategic objectives are underpinned by the importance of community engagement in improving quality of care.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This technical package provides a comprehensive framework to enable national policymakers and planners to focus investments on priority, effective and sustainable interventions; assess recommendation actions, best practices tools and standards; and identify gaps and allow for continuous monitoring based on a set of standardized core indicators.
Year Published: 2023 | Resource Type: Action Plan | Languages: English
This is an example Child Survival Action Plan from Sierra Leone.
Year Published: 2018 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English
This guidance provides a framework for improving the quality of care for children and young adolescents in health facilities.
Year Published: 2016 | Resource Type: Guide | Languages: English, French
This handbook provides practical guidance on national health planning and strategizing for health, including guidance on situational analyses, prioritization exercises, developing operational plans, costing, and budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, and sub-national planning.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English, French
A platform for accessing country data to monitor progress and inform policy decisions for health and nutrition of women, children, and adolescents.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English
This platform provides the latest, reliable data and estimates of stillbirths, all-cause child and adolescent mortality, and child and adolescent causes of death for each country based on the research of the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation and the Child and Adolescent Causes of Death Estimation project.
Year Published: | Resource Type: Tool | Languages: English, French
This portal provides up to date data and information on demographics, mortality, causes of death, morbidity, coverage of essential health care practices, health system readiness and policies related to young children under the age of five years and older children aged from five to nine years.