Resources

Presentation | English | 2023

Members' Meeting Presentation - March 16, 2023

Presentation from the Child Health Task Force Members' Meeting on March 16, 2023, to share the feedback from the members’ survey and the Child Survival Action blueprint for advocacy. 

Event Materials | English | 2023

Members' Meeting Recording - March 16, 2023

The Child Health Task Force members will convene meetings on March 16, 2023, and April 19, 2023. The purpose will be to share the feedback from the members’ survey, the CSA blueprint for advocacy, and the Task Force conference and solicit input for taking these forward.

Tool | English | 2023

CHW Programmatic Gap Table Example Global Fund Application

Completed example of a community health worker (CHW) programmatic gap table to be included in the Global Fund proposal.

Report | English, French | Global | 2023

2022 Annual Members' Survey Report

In December 2022, the Child Health Task Force Secretariat conducted its fourth annual members’ survey as a mechanism to gauge members’ perspectives on the direction of the Task Force. The survey requested feedback on the Task Force’s progress towards meeting its goal and its usefulness to members across five themes, along with resources, meetings, and support offered.

Report | English | 2023

Oxygen financing: Global Fund opportunities

This brief outlines key information and resources for pursuing funding for oxygen and respiratory care systems through the Global Fund via the C19RM and country grants.

Guide | English | 2023

Detailed Instructions for Completing the CHW Programmatic Gap Table for Global Fund Funding Requests

These detailed instructions explain how to complete the Community Health Worker (CHW) Programmatic Gap Table (template here) as part of the Global Fund proposal (disease-specific and RSSH funding requests).

Guide | English | 2023

Guidance Note: Accessing and Programming Matching Funds, Allocation Period 2023 - 2025 Global Fund

This document provides strategic guidance to applicants eligible for additional catalytic Matching Funds beyond the allocation amount for the 2023-2025 allocation period from the Global Fund.
 

Action Plan | English | 2023

Child Survival Action: A Blueprint for Advocacy and Action

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.

Event Materials | English | 2023

Resource Pack for Protecting Children from Heat Stress

The panelists of the heat stress webinars and the facilitators together developed a short but helpful list of key selected resources as part of a Heat Stress Resource Pack that can help you quickly read up on the impact of heat stress on maternal, infant, and child populations and also see examples of plans and guidelines currently being implemented in healthcare settings across countries.

Event Materials | English | 2023

Recording Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition - February 14, 2023

In the recording, The Child Health Task Force, UNESCO, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition hosted a webinar to mark the publication of the joint report, Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition around the World (highlights here).

Presentation | English | 2023

Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition (UNESCO, LSHTM) Presentation- February 14, 2023

The Child Health Task Force, UNESCO, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition hosted a webinar to mark the publication of the joint report, Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition around the World (highlights here).

Presentation | English | 2023

Session 3 CHD and Heat Stress Presentation (UNICEF, UCSF, SAMRC, SUNY) - February 13, 2023

In the presentation, The Child Health Task Force and UNICEF collaborated to bring together how heat stress is a worrying contributing factor and what can be done to protect pregnant women and infants against it globally. 

The series is aligned with the Healthy Environments for Healthy Children framework, which identifies which environmental and climate hazards affect children globally and their rights to a healthy environment.

Event Materials | English | 2023

Session 3 CHD and Heat Stress Recording - February 13, 2023

In this recording, The Child Health Task Force and UNICEF have collaborated to bring together various climate and health experts to discuss high-priority health issues affecting pregnant people, infants, and children globally. 

Event Materials | English | 2023

Recording The relationship between wasting and stunting - February 9, 2023

In the recording, The Child Health Task Force's Nutrition subgroup hosted a webinar to learn about the relationship between wasting and stunting, a critical issue for child survival. 

During the recording, members of the Technical Interest Group on wasting and stunting, led by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), presented findings from a systematic review, as well as related work pieces and future analyses.

Presentation | English | 2023

Presentation The relationship between wasting and stunting (ENN, LSHTM) - February 9, 2023

In the presentation, The Child Health Task Force's Nutrition subgroup hosted a webinar to learn about the relationship between wasting and stunting, a critical issue for child survival. 

During the webinar, members of the Technical Interest Group on wasting and stunting, led by the Emergency Nutrition Network (ENN), presented findings from a systematic review, as well as related work pieces and future analyses.

Guide | English, French | 2022

Forecasting Consumption of Select Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Medical Products

This forecasting supplement, which complements a general guidance document Quantification of Health Commodities: A Guide to Forecasting and Supply Planning for Procurement, will assist program managers, service providers, and technical experts when conducting quantification of needs for priority reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health medical products. It has been updated to include new products and recommendations from WHO.

Guide | English | 2022

Primary health care measurement framework and indicators: monitoring health systems through a primary health care lens

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.

Guide | English | 2022

Global core indicators for measuring WHO’s paediatric quality-of-care standards in health facilities: development and expert consensus

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.

Report | English | 2022

Development of a Toolkit for Institutionalization of Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), Preparatory Phase Report

The Institutionalizing Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) Subgroup of the global Child Health Task Force (CHTF) is developped a toolkit to support country stakeholders to institutionalize iCCM. This work is being supported by the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria program through PSI's Health System Accelerator and has been divided into two distinct phases - a preparatory phase from October 2021 to March 2022, followed by a toolkit development phase from April to September 2022.

Report | English | 2022

School Meal Programs Around The World

Covering 139 countries, of which 125 had large-scale school feeding, the 2022 edition of School Meal Programs Around the World presents the results of GCNF’s second Global Survey of School Meal Programs ©, conducted from July 2021 through March 2022.