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FINDING YOUR INNER STRENGTH: Building Emotional Resilience and Social Cohesion in the Face of Adversity
This 3rd edition of an “Introduction to Trauma Awareness and Resilience (TAR)” is expanded based on lessons learned in the application of the curriculum in South Sudan and elsewhere since 2014. Earlier versions were delivered alongside mainstream resilience components as part of CRS’s...More
CRS Social and Behavior Change Guide
A practical tool to guide CRS’ Social and Behavior Change (SBC) work across all program sectors. It provides:
- An understanding of basic principles of human behavior and social change.
- Definitions of key terms and concepts.
- Explanation of the essential steps in ...More
Regulatory Framework of Food Fortification in West Africa
West Africa has made significant progress on harmonized mandatory standards on the levels of iron in wheat flour (60-ppm), folic acid in wheat flour (2.6ppm), vitamin A in vegetable oil (11-24ppm) and iodine in salt (15-45ppm) in most countries. These levels have been adopted by all Francophone...More
Public Private Partnerships For Food Fortification
West Africa bears the highest burden of undernutrition in Africa, with stunting and wasting rates surpassing global averages. Women of Reproductive Age in the region face nutrition-related health issues, including a high prevalence of anemia. The Global Nutrition Report reveals that no West...More
CRS Supply Chain Management Handbook
The CRS Supply Chain Management Handbook captures best practices in supply chain management that enable CRS to effectively meet the needs of those we serve. This handbook is the product of numerous peer...More
Integration for Behavior Change – Approaches and Challenges
This 2022 learning study was designed to document the Budikadidi project’s approach to multi-sectoral programming integration and offer insights for leveraging integration to promote and sustain social and behavior change (SBC).
Between 2017 and 2023, a CRS-led consortium implemented the...More
Gender-Sensitive Labor-Saving Technologies & Practices
This DRC-based learning study was designed to drive greater understanding of whether the gender-sensitive labor-saving technologies and practices (GSLSTP) promoted by the Budikadidi project results in time savings and impacted gendered roles and responsibilities.
Between 2017 and 2023, a...More
Integration of the Care Group Model within Ministry of Health Structures
This learning study was designed to trace the development of the Budikadidi project care group model, assess its integration within government structures and document the project’s handover process.
Between 2017 and 2023, a CRS-led consortium implemented the USAID-funded Budikadidi...More
Rapid Seed System Security Assessment (RSSSA) Tools
In response to demand for a more rapid and less resource-intensive seed system assessment than the standard Seed System Security Assessment (SSSA), the CRS-led S34D project along with the global Food Security Cluster (gFSC) has developed a set of rapid tools. These tools will provide a rapid way...More
Health Annex of the CRS Supply Chain Management Handbook
The CRS Supply Chain Management Handbook includes a Health Annex for CRS staff who manage projects and activities that involve health products, with a special focus on strengthening national health...More
Exploring Community Volunteer Incentive Structures
In 2022, the DRC Budikadidi team launched a study to capture learning on the coherence, impact, and sustainability of the project’s incentive structures.
Between 2017 and 2023, a CRS-led consortium implemented the USAID-funded Budikadidi Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in the...More
Bolstering the Soy Value Chain to Address Malnutrition
This brief documents the Budikadidi RFSA’s soybean pilot intervention and offers early lessons learned and recommendations.
Between 2017 and 2023, a CRS-led consortium implemented the USAID-funded Budikadidi Resilience Food Security Activity (RFSA) in the DRC’s Kasaï Oriental Province...More
Digitalizing Malaria Campaigns: ITN and SMC Handbook
Catholic Relief Services is an innovator and leader in the application of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) to assist poor and marginalized people in developing communities. The agency was an early adopter of digital tools to enable mass health campaigns, first...More
The Effects of Antenatal Depression and Women’s Perception of Having Poor Health on Maternal Health Service Utilization in Northern Ghana
This study examined the effects of antenatal depression and women’s self-perceived poor health on maternal health service utilization, which had rarely been done in previous studies. We found evidence that self-perceived poor health, especially among women with moderate or severe antenatal...More
11 Success Factors for Digital Malaria Campaigns
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has successfully partnered with national government health agencies in several countries to improve the efficiency, quality, and coverage of community-based malaria interventions that support national malaria elimination strategies through scaled ICT applications....More
Evaluation of the protective efficacy of a spatial repellent to reduce malaria incidence in children in Mali compared to placebo
Spatial repellents, which are used to prevent mosquito bites, have not been evaluated for their effectiveness in reducing mosquito-borne diseases in Africa. However, they have the potential to be useful in preventing these diseases in situations where traditional vector control methods, such as...More
Spatial repellents: The current roadmap to global recommendation of spatial repellents for public health use
Spatial repellent (SR) products release volatile active ingredients that protect against mosquito bites during the day and early evening, provide protection in enclosed spaces, and have the potential to be effective against insecticide-resistant vectors. While key stakeholders, including the...More
Effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention at scale in west and central Africa: an observational study
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) aims to prevent malaria in children during the high malaria transmission season. The Achieving Catalytic Expansion of SMC in the Sahel (ACCESS-SMC) project sought to remove barriers to the scale-up of SMC in seven countries in 2015 and 2016. We evaluated...More
The impact of a maternal mental health intervention on intimate partner violence in Northern Ghana and the mediating roles of social support and couple communication
Diverse intervention efforts are implemented to address intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. Via a syndemics theory lens and emerging empirical evidence, mental health interventions demonstrate promise to partially ameliorate IPV. However, the mechanisms of change underlying many IPV...More
La Chimioprévention du paludisme saisonnier a permis d’éviter près de 6 millions de cas de paludisme dans le Sahel
En 2012, l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a recommandé l’introduction de la Chimioprévention du paludisme saisonnier (CPS)* dans les zones à forte transmission saisonnière du paludisme.More
Redoubling Efforts to Sustain Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention
According to WHO's world malaria report, 627 000 lives were lost to malaria in 2020; two in three were children younger than 5 years, and 90% were in sub-Saharan Africa. Malaria is also a major burden for national budgets, representing approximately 40% of health spending across African...More
Adolescence and the risk of ART non-adherence during a geographically focusedpublic health intervention
The risk of poor antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among adolescents is a challenge to controlling HIV. This study aims to provide guidance for geographically focused public health interventions to improve adherence. Through clinic records, it investigates adolescents’ non-adherence risk...More
Prevalence and correlates of maternal early stimulation behaviors during pregnancy in northern Ghana
Per UNICEF’s Nurturing Care Framework, early childhood development (ECD) begins during pregnancy and many lower-resource settings need data to inform their programs for optimal child development. The maternal-fetal relationship can be partly examined via a series of bonding activities called...More
Introducing field digital data collection systems into seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaigns opportunities for robust evidence development and national e- health strategies
In 2020, Benin has implemented a digitalized mass distribution campaign of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in the particular context of COVID-19 pandemic. This paper describes the implementation process as well as the challenges and lessons learned from this campaign.More
Geographical and temporal variation in reduction of malaria infection among children under 5 years of age throughout Nigeria
Global progress in reducing malaria has stalled since 2015. Analysis of the situation is particularly needed in Nigeria, the country with by far the largest share of the burden, where approximately a quarter of all cases in the world are estimated to occur.More
Effectiveness of seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) treatments when SMC is implemented at scale
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has shown high protective efficacy against clinical malaria and severe malaria in a series of clinical trials. We evaluated the effectiveness of SMC treatments against clinical malaria when delivered at scale through national malaria control programmes in...More
Improving Development Outcomes by Strengthening Couples
In 2008, CRS implemented the SMART Couples project (Strengthening Marriages And Relationships Through Communication and Planning.) CRS’ signature couples strengthening approach is the SMART Couples program (Strengthening Marriages AND Relationships Through Communication and Planning). The...More
Effect of a lay counselor-delivered integrated maternal mental health and early childhood development group-based intervention in Northern Ghana
Caregiver mental health is linked to early childhood development, yet more robust evidence of community-based interventions to prevent maternal depression and optimize socio-emotional development of young children is needed. Objectives of this cluster-randomized controlled trial (cRCT), based in...More
Digitalized mass distribution campaign of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in the particular context of Covid-19 pandemic in Benin
In 2020, Benin has implemented a digitalized mass distribution campaign of insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) in the particular context of COVID-19 pandemic. This paper describes the implementation process as well as the challenges and lessons learned from this campaign.More
The Faithful House: Training of Facilitators Manual
The Faithful House Training of Facilitators manual is a curriculum for training master couples as facilitators for Faithful House.
CRS’ signature couples strengthening approach is the The Faithful House (collectively known as SMART Couples). The program coaches...More
The Incalculable Value of Digital Health Campaigns: Perspectives from Benin
Health campaigns are only effective when they can achieve high coverage, at scale. Yet, with paper-based records, it can be difficult to verify who was reached during a campaign and true coverage can be near or even below the minimum needed to achieve anticipated health outcomes. Digital tools...More
Digital Response in the COVID-19 Environment
The COVID-19 pandemic elevated the use of digital technology in programming from an opportunity to a fundamental need. The social distancing required to stave off the virus has made technology an essential means for the continuation of service delivery. As such, many CRS country programs,...More
Recipe for Success: Accelerating Nutrition Governance
This policy analysis examines how existing U.S. government (USG) policies, systems, and structures enable or hinder the localization of the USG’s nutrition programming, as well as nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive approaches implemented by USG-funded nutrition actors. Through better...More
Garden Resource Guide
Successful and sustainable garden interventions require expertise from many sectors. The Garden Resource Guide, one resource within CRS’ Garden Toolkit, brings this knowledge together with its 13 chapters that cuts across agriculture, nutrition, behavior change, water resources, gender, post-...More
Digitizing Health Campaigns Improves Outcomes
Based on CRS Benin’s support to the Ministry of Health to digitize successive ITN, SMC, and Onchocerciasis campaigns, this learning brief describes what is needed to ensure that digitization investments are optimally leveraged. While the success of a one-off campaign is often measured by more...More
How SILCs in Africa and Latin America have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: One year later
This study presents the results of focus group discussions with 110 CRS SILCs and individual interviews with 415 SILC members administered in seven countries in Africa and two in Latin America from August to October 2021, to understand how SILC groups have responded to the public health and...More
CRS Framework for Quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) Intervention
This CRS Framework for Quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) (ECE Framework) aligns with and reflects CRS’ Global Education Conceptual Framework, which recognizes that for all children to learn and thrive, they must be healthy, safe, engaged, supported and resilient as they grow and...More
Burkina Faso Pilots SMC Campaign Digitization
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country lying in the semi-arid Sahel and Savanna zones of Africa with a population of roughly 21 million people. A partner in Burkina Faso’s development since 1960, CRS works with the government, local partners, and other members of civil society to address major...More
Electronic Data Collection in The Gambia for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention and Insecticide-Treated Nets Campaigns
The Gambia is a small country in West Africa. Stretching 450 km along the Gambia River, the country (all 10,689 square kilometers of it) is surrounded by Senegal, except for a 60-km Atlantic Ocean front. The country has a population of 2.1 million. With 176 people per square kilometer, it is one...More
Circle of Hope
The Community Post Model is a Faith-Engaged Community Model of care designed to expand HIV care by improving the efficiency and efficacy of HIV case finding, linkage to treatment, and continuity of treatment in care. It focuses on identifying people living with HIV (PLHIV) and linking them to...More
Atteindre des impacts sur la santé a l’échelle
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) a établi avec succés un partenariat avec les agencies gouvernementales nationales de santé dans plusieurs pays afin d’améliorer l’efficacité, la qualité et la couverture des interventions communautaires contre le paludisme qui soutiennent les strategies nationales...More
Achieving Health Impacts at Scale
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has successfully partnered with national government health agencies in several countries to improve the efficiency, quality, and coverage of community based malaria interventions that support national malaria elimination strategies through scaled ICT applications...More
Learning Bulletin: Ethiopia
CRS Ethiopia has worked alongside government, partners, communities and other key stakeholders to adapt our programming to the rapidly evolving pandemic context.More
Tom Brown Supplementary Feeding Program Implementation Guide
This document provides detailed guidance on the Catholic Relief Services community‑based supplementary feeding program, Tom Brown, for nutrition actors within or outside of CRS. Its primary purpose is to provide practical information on Tom Brown programming so that the model of implementation...More
Cambodia Malaria Program
While malaria in Cambodia has halved in the last decade, it remains endemic in 21 out of 25 provinces. Increasing malaria parasite resistance to artemisinin drugs remains a challenge. The National Strategic Plan for Elimination of Malaria (2011- 2025) set the aim of eliminating all species of...More
Impacts of COVID-19 among Mothers of Young Children in Siaya County, Kenya
Catholic Relief Services (CRS), in close partnership with the Evidence Lab at the Duke Global Health Institute, conducted...More
Prevalence and Correlates of Depression Among Pregnant Women Enrolled in a Maternal and Newborn Health Program in Rural Northern Ghana
Women in many sub-Saharan African countries are at elevated risk of depression during pregnancy. However, there are still gaps in the estimates of antenatal depression and associated risk factors in very low-resource settings such as Northern Ghana. This study describes the prevalence of...More
Micro Assurance Santé - Bénin
Au Benin, la majorité des ménages pauvres ont un accès limité aux soins de santé, ce qui a des conséquences...More
Rising from Resilient Roots
Rising from Resilient Roots is a one-day resilience-strengthening workshop designed to help participants in fragile and conflicted contexts find inner peace...More
Learning from Field:
Lesson Learned
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Caritas Bangladesh (CB) implement the Margret A. Cargill Foundation (MAC) funded Disaster Risk Reduction project Make Us Knowledgeable and Trained in Emergencies (MUKTE II) on the remote Monpura Island in Bhola District, Bangladesh. More
GETTING IT RIGHT: policy recommendations for preventing and countering violent extremism
In 2017, CRS contracted CDA Learning Collaborative to provide recommendations for CRS’ decision-making toward funding for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/CVE). More
Integrating Violence Against Children Prevention and Response into HIV Services
Children are exposed to violence in various settings and circumstances. An estimated one billion children globally are exposed to physical, sexual or emotional violence. There is a direct link between all forms of violence in childhood and increased risks of acquiring HIV in later life....More
Technology with a Human Touch
CRS' ReMiND project in India improved the health of mothers and their babies in the state of Uttar Pradesh. This short lessons learned document gives an overview of the project's achievements.More
Monitoring and Evaluation Short Cuts
Human interest stories personalize project impact results and reports by documenting the personal experience of individuals who were influenced by the project. These stories are a perfect complement to other M&E data collection techniques that provide a different account of project impact.More
Monitoring and Evaluation Short Cuts
This edition of Short Cuts provides guidance on how to manage and implement an evaluation. The Managing and Implementing an Evaluation module’s goal is to increase the quality of an organization’s M&E activities through a well-managed evaluation. It highlights the necessary skills that an...More
Monitoring and Evaluation Short Cuts
This edition of Short Cuts is intended to provide concise guidance needed to develop a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation (M&E) system for international humanitarian relief and development programs. It covers the key planning documents and processes needed to set up and implement an M...More
Monitoring and Evaluation Short Cuts
This Short Cut illustrates the inherent challenges and often conflicting responsibilities that accompany monitoring and evaluation (M&E) work. Recognizing that there are no standard, or even easy, answers to ethical challenges that arise, M&E and Ethics provides a framework for resolving...More
Monitoring & Evaluation Short Cuts
This edition of Short Cuts provides guidance on identifying, recruiting, and hiring the right staff. Hiring is a strategically important process; it requires careful thought and a significant time commitment. The Hiring M&E Staff module provides generalized examples that can be customized to...More
Monitoring and Evaluation Short Cuts
This edition of Short Cuts provides practical instructions on how to design an evaluation communication and reporting strategy using tailored reporting formats that are responsive to audience profiles and information needs. Most donors require midterm and final evaluations, and best practice...More
Monitoring and Evaluation Shortcuts
This Short Cut provides guidance on the planning, evaluation, documentation, and follow up of the delivery of capacity-building technical assistance. This tool is applicable to all sectors (e.g., agriculture, health, and food aid), all themes (e.g., global solidarity and peacebuilding), and all...More
Building Trust and Mutual Respect: Strengthening Families Through the Rethabile "Happy Together" Parenting Program
The Rethabile positive parenting activity is being run by 4Children Lesotho with caregivers and teens ages 9 to 24 for the purpose of reducing harsh parenting practices (i.e., violence) and improving positive parenting practices. By promoting adult–child communication around topics such as HIV...More
Case Conferencing: An Innovative Approach to Addressing Complex Needs of Vulnerable Children
The 4Children OVC project in Lesotho has introduced case conferencing approach as part of its direct service delivery to vulnerable children. A case conference is a planned meeting that brings together all the different actors who have a role in supporting a vulnerable child or children and...More
CRS' Global Malaria Programs
This handout describes CRS’ malaria work, including an overview of our programming and the countries where we work.
2018 Conference Report: Third Vatican Conference on Impact Investing
On July 8–10, 2018, the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) hosted the Third Vatican Conference on Impact Investing (VIIC2018). VIIC2018 is the latest in a biennial series of conferences that serve as a vital, long-term, global platform around...More
Les plateformes d’organisation de la société civile contribuent aux programmes de vaccination nationaux
La société civile et les organisations de la société civile (OSC) sont un partenaire clé de Gavi, l’Alliance et jouent un rôle crucial dans les efforts visant à ce que chaque enfant puisse bénéficier de services de vaccination. Entre 2011 et 2018, Gavi a financé CRS d’établir et d’appuyer des...More
Civil Society Organization Platforms Contribute to National Immunization Programs
Civil society and civil society organizations (CSOs) are a key partner in Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. They play a crucial role in helping to ensure that every child is immunized. During the period 2011-2018, Gavi funded CRS to establish and support civil society platforms for immunization in 24...More
From Traditional to Holistic
With enhanced technical capacity, faith-based organizations can play a crucial role in increasing both access and quality of early childhood services for children throughout the household-to-education and health continuum of care. This finding was the result of a 40-day evaluation carried out at...More
Resource Compendium for Integration of Early Childhood Development into Programs
With support from USAID, the Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children Project (4Children) was tasked with reviewing and documenting opportunities to integrate early childhood development (ECD) into HIV programming. Written for USAID and PEPFAR implementing partners, with a focus on OVC...More
Strengthening referral pathways for children and adolescents affected by sexual violence
Violence against children exists in many different forms, including physical, psychological and sexual violence. The majority of countries across the globe have criminalized sexual violence against children, with an increasing number of countries criminalizing physical violence, including...More
After Help Leaves: Graduation approaches and post-graduation outcomes among households in Kenya’s northern arid lands
In Kenya, the Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children) project provided technical assistance to local organizations to implement PEPFAR’s geographic pivot through responsible graduation at both the programmatic and case level for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC). To assess...More
After help leaves: post-graduation outcomes in PEPFAR-supported OVC projects in Nigeria
This study traces a sample of OVC and their primary caregivers to assess their well-being and to understand the perceived changes in OVC well-being following graduation from a PEPFAR-funded program.More
Nearly 1/3 of Nigerians travel outside their community for HIV health care: new study
A new study of a large-scale OVC project in Nigeria has revealed that nearly one third of HIV clients travel outside of their community -- known as Local Government Areas, or "LGAs" -- to access health care. The study was carried out by the PEPFAR-supported 4Children project to ensure its...More
Framework for Strengthening Integration of Mental Health in Programs for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV
Children must have their needs met in multiple domains and across their full course of development in order to thrive. In low and middle-income countries (LMIC), it is estimated that 250 million children under the age of five are not meeting their developmental potential. Poverty, HIV and other...More
Better Parenting Facilitator Manual
Better Parenting Nigeria is a parenting education program whose goal is to see that families have the knowledge and skills needed to raise healthy, safe and resilient children. The program aims to ensure that:
- The caregiver-child relationship is strengthened;
- Caregiver ...More
Better Parenting Curriculum: Community Discussion Guide
"Better Parenting Nigeria" is a parenting education curriculum for building caregiver protective factors in order to help parents provide better support to children. Its goals are to ensure that:
- Children and parents experience fewer conflicts;
- Parents make better ...More
Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children (4Children)
4 Children Fact Sheet
Coordinating Comprehensive Care for Children, or 4Children, is a 5-year, USAID-funded project improving the health and well-being of vulnerable...More
ReMiND Project
CRS with support from Dimagi Inc., and in collaboration with local implementing partners Vatsalya and Sarathi Development Foundation are working closely with the UP-NHM to scale-up the mobile technology intervention to strengthen supportive supervision of ASHAs. CRS and the Directorate of Health...More
Malaria resources for practitioners and health workers
These tools were designed within the consortium-led "ACCESS-SMC" project designed to expand seasonal malaria chemoprevention in the Sahel, reaching more than 6 million children over the course of the project:
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Changing the Way we Care
Research shows that, of the millions of children living in orphanages, between 80-90% have a living parent, many of whom want to care for their children but don't have the resources they need. CRS' "Changing the Way We Care" project is establishing a framework for a regional and global advocacy...More
CRS and School Health and Hygiene
This factsheet describes CRS' approach to improving school health and hygience, and includes examples of programming. More
Working in Partnership to Improve Children’s Safety and Well-Being: The May’khethele Programme in South Africa
This case study is one in a series that highlights different aspects of a case management system and referral mechanisms utilized by OVC programs. The studies aim to provide useful information that can inform the work of policymakers and practitioners engaged in programs serving vulnerable...More
Referral Mechanisms for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV (OVC)
This informational brochure explains the different types of referral mechanisms within HIV programming for OVC. A referral is understood as the process of recognizing a risk or concern about a child or household, deciding that action needs to be taken, and providing information about or...More
Using a Systems Approach at the Community Level in a Human Resource Constrained Context: The YouthPower Action Project in Mozambique
This case study is one in a series that highlights different aspects of a case management system and referral mechanisms utilized by OVC programs. The studies aim to provide useful information that can inform the work of policymakers and practitioners engaged in programs serving vulnerable...More
Child Protection Case Management Operations Manual
Case management is an approach at the core of social work. Case management is the process required for improving the quality of life for vulnerable children in need of care and protection. This manual is intended to support social workers in their case management role and reduce overall workload...More
2016 Integrated Nutrition Conference (INC)
The second Integrated Nutrition Conference (INC), held in Nairobi in 2016, focused on engaging the private sector to improve nutritional outcomes, an issue that arose during the first conference in 2015. The conference was organized around two main objectives:
- identify strategies ...More
Mobilising faith-based and lay leaders to address antenatal care outcomes in northern Ghana
This article, written by CRS staff members and published in the journal "Development in Practice," summarizes the results of a study that examined how faith-based and lay leaders can address the socio-cultural barriers to antenatal care uptake in northern Ghana in the context of a broader child...More
Measuring couple relationship quality in a rural African population:
Available data suggest that individual and family well-being are linked to the quality of women's and men's couple relationships, but few tools exist to assess couple relationship functioning in low- and middle-income countries. In response to this gap, CRS developed a Couple Functionality...More
Approaches of the Lea Toto and APHIAplus Nuru Ya Bonde Programs in Kenya
Acknowledging that OVC are at increased risk for HIV infection, and in alignment with PEPFAR technical guidance, OVC programs aspire to ensure that all individually registered OVC beneficiaries have a known HIV status. Over the past four years, many programs worldwide have scaled up efforts to...More
Assessment on Availability of African Indigenous Leafy Vegetables in Malawi and Zambia
The objective of this assessment in selected regions of Malawi and Zambia was to:
- assess types and availability of drought-resistant African Indigenous Leafy Vegetables (AILVs) in each country;
- assess households’ AILV preferences per country;
- identify, collect ...More
Nutrition Reference Guide: CORE Group's Nutrition Working Group
This reference guide includes nutrition-specific tools and approaches, information on how and when to use them, and special considerations for their use. The guide, which was created in response to a need expressed by the CORE Group Nutrition Working Group, is designed for program designers and...More
Good Practices in Case Management
The Site Improvement Monitoring System (SIMS) is an important part of the U.S. Government’s efforts to strengthen the quality of services delivered to people affected by HIV. Assessments of PEPFAR-funded OVC programs using the SIMS Community Tool are being carried out in order to ensure that...More
Summary of Key Approaches on Improving HIV Testing and Services for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV (OVC)
This report summarizes the strengths, challenges, lessons learned and remaining gaps of the Lea Toto and APHIAplus programs in Kenya, the Yekokeb Berhan Project in Ethiopia and the EIP in Zimbabwe. Specifically, this report documents each program’s efforts to (a) test 100% of HIV-exposed infants...More
Approaches of the Yekokeb Berhan Program for Highly Vulnerable Children in Ethiopia
Between April and September 2016, 4Children documented work by OVC programs in three countries; these included Pact’s Yekokeb Berhan program in Ethiopia, the World Education Inc./Bantwana Expanded IMPACT Program in Zimbabwe and COGRI’s Lea Toto program and FHI360- led APHIAplus program in Kenya...More
Approaches of the Expanded Impact Program in Zimbabwe
Between April and September 2016, 4Children documented work in OVC programs in three countries; these included Pact’s Yekokeb Berhan program in Ethiopia, the World Education Inc./Bantwana Expanded IMPACT Program in Zimbabwe, and COGRI’s Lea Toto program and FHI360 led APHIAplus program in Kenya...More
Summary of Key Findings from the 4CHILDREN Case Management Case Studies
PEPFAR’s OVC programming delivers child-focused, family-centered interventions that seek to improve well-being and prevent and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on children and families. This effort involves working in partnership with children and families to identify, plan, and complete a...More
From the Ground Up: Developing a National Case Management System for Highly Vulnerable Children
The overall objective of the case study is to highlight and help promote good practice related to case management within orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming. The case study illustrates the core components of a case management system, the positive results of a case management system...More
Building a User-Friendly and Government-Owned Case Management System for Highly Vulnerable Children
The overall objective of this case study is to highlight and help promote good practice related to case management within orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming. The case study illustrates the core components of a case management system, the positive results of a case management...More
From Assessment to Graduation: Comprehensive Case Management for Vulnerable Children and Households
The overall objective of this case study is to highlight and help promote good practice related to case management within orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) programming. The case study illustrates the core components of a case management system, the positive results of a case management...More
Pathways for Exiting Programs for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV
PEPFAR’s Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) programming delivers child-focused, family-centered interventions that seek to improve well-being and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on children and families. Interventions are time-limited, based on assessed need, and intended to build...More
Case Management for Children Orphaned or Made Vulnerable by HIV
PEPFAR’s OVC programming delivers child-focused, family-centered interventions that seek to improve wellbeing and mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS on children and families. This effort involves working in partnership with children and families to identify, plan, and complete a series of...More
Planning and Conducting Well Being Days
The Wellbeing Day model has derived from the Station Days methodology. Station Day is a child and parent-friendly and participatory day-long monitoring and evaluation field activity to assist project staff, orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) and their caregivers to appreciate critical issues...More
Implementing the Principles for Digital Development
This case study illustrates how CRS and its partners have been implementing the Principles for Digital Development since 2011 in The ReMiND Project in the Kaushambi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. More
Strengthening Community Health Systems through mHealth
This learning brief outlines the impacts of a mobile application for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) that was developed by CRS’ Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project. The introduction of the app to the ASHA cadre at the community level in select districts in the state...More
Six steps to mHealth success
The Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project offers solutions to community-level health systems bottlenecks in India and globally. The six key steps in ReMiND’s design and deployment are described in this publication according to best practices from the Organizational Guide to...More
Midterm Evaluation Summary
This report summarizes the midterm evaluation of the Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths Project (ReMiND) conducted by CRS in 2014. The evaluation included a qualitative study and a quantitative knowledge, practice and coverage (KPC) survey of 2,200 households.
Using mobile phone-based...More
Mapping mHealth Success
This report provides an overview of CRS’ Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) project developed a mobile application for Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) and their supervisors. It also includes a summary of research findings, a description of the implementation process in six...More
Father Engagement in Nutrition
This report shares key findings on male engagment in child nutrition and maternal and child health from the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands project to Accelerate Reduction of Stunting of Children Under Two Years (EKN project) in the Muhanga and Karongi districts in Rwanda. The project...More
Factors Related to the Placement into and Reintegration of Children from Catholic-Affiliated Residential Care Facilities in Zambia
To support recent child care reform efforts in Zambia, Catholic Relief Services, in collaboration with the Government of the Republic of Zambia, Ministry of Community Development and Social Welfare and in partnership with the Zambia Association of Sisterhoods (ZAS), conducted formative research...More
Encouraging Positive Practices for Improving Child Survival (EPPICS)
Encouraging Positive Practices for Improving Child Survival (EPPICS) documentation serves as a valuable resource for health professionals, including local and international organizations, working in rural developing communities. The guide, ...More
Early Childhood Development Curriculum
This six-part series of manuals is intended to strengthen the technical capacity of women religious and congregations in Kenya, Malawi, and Zambia that are involved in Early Childhood Development (ECD). The curriculum was created within the CRS-led project called “Strengthening the Capacity of...More
Participation by All
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) undertook a sustainability evaluation in 2015 to evaluate the sustained outcomes of its Programme de Securite Alimentaire et Nutritionelle (PROSAN) project that ran from 2006-2012 in Niger. PROSAN was implemented by three NGOs: CRS, Cooperative for Assistance and...More
In-Country Management and Distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets: A Logistics Guide for Implementers (Second Edition)
Catholic Relief services has created In-Country Management and Distribution of Long Lasting Insecticide-Treated Nets: A Logistics Guide for Implementers to share the insights and expertise gained from the experience of Long-Lasting Insecticide-treated Nets (LLINs) distribution campaigns...More
Case Study: The Role of Para-Social Workers in Creating Community-Led Approaches to Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse
This case study outlines the process undertaken by officials, para-social workers (PSWs) and community leaders in several sub-counties9 in Kasese District in Western Uganda to a) identify and address instances of child abuse in their community, b) track cases...More
Case Study: Integrated Child Protection and Care and Treatment Programming
A growing body of evidence supports the theory that child protection and HIV care and treatment outcomes are inextricably linked. Protecting children from abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect, is essential to achieving an AIDS-free generation, and providing children living with...More
Evaluation of Transitioning an HIV Response to Local Ownership in Four Countries
Between 2004 and 2013, the global AIDSRelief program supported rapid scale-up of HIV care and treatment services for poor and underserved people in ten countries across Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. AIDSRelief served more than 700,000 clients, including more than 390,000 who enrolled...More
Couple Functionality Assessment Tool (CFAT): User Guide
The Couple Functionality Assessment Tool (CFAT) is a survey-based toolkit designed to measure key dimensions of couple relationships. Field tested by CRS Malawi, the CFAT will allow CRS country programs and projects that explicitly aim to improve couple functionality to capture valid and...More
Réseaux et associations de santé dans les pays à revenu faible et moyen
In 2014, Catholic Relief Services Haiti and the University of Notre Dame Eck Institute for Global Health conducted a study to identify key characteristics related to the success of long-standing health facility networks in low and middle income countries. The information gathered in this study...More
Health Networks and Associations in Low and Middle Income Countries
In 2014, Catholic Relief Services Haiti and the University of Notre Dame Eck Institute for Global Health conducted a study to identify key characteristics related to the success of long-standing health facility networks in low and middle income countries. The information gathered in this study...More
Delivering Health Microinsurance through Savings and Internal Lending Communities
Catholic Relief Services and partners piloted a health microinsurance product and delivered it through savings groups in Benin. We introduced a digital solution to improve efficiency and scalability. This document evaluates the project's ability to increase access to health services among rural...More
AIDSRelief Kenya Final Report
From 2004 to 2013, AIDSRelief Kenya provided HIV care and treatment to more than 141,000 patients, including more than 88,000 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy at 31 treatment sites and 100 satellite health facilities. Consortium members Catholic Relief Services, University of...More
AIDSRelief Guyana Final Report
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Guyana provided HIV care and treatment to more than 2,400 patients, including more than 1,500 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at three treatment sites. In this small country, AIDSRelief’s patient load represented approximately 30% of adults...More
Engaging Men to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health
Because of their roles as decision makers and heads of household, men play an important role in improving maternal and child health care in their communities. This facilitator's guide focuses on training male volunteers to become "counselors" who encourage fathers to change practices or adopt...More
HIV Programming Comes of Age
Integrated HIV, food security and livelihoods programming has been an aspiration pursued by NGOs, donors and host-country governments for more than a decade with varying degrees of success. While the conceptual logic behind integrated programming has been obvious for decades, the “how to” of...More
The Expert Client Model
Through the USAID-funded IMPACT program and with the support of a joint Ministry of Health ART/PMTCT Technical Working Group Task Force, CRS developed and implemented a peer-based task-shifting approach known as the Expert Client model. In this model, HIV-positive expert clients were recruited...More
Using Play for Growing Smart Children
This manual was written to help caregivers at home or at early childhood development (ECD) centers to understand the relationship between toys and a child’s developmental milestones. The manual also guides the caregiver in stimulating children with age appropriate activities and in making toys...More
AIDSRelief Ethiopia Final Report
From 2009 to 2012, AIDSRelief Ethiopia provided HIV care and treatment to more than 4,000 patients, including 2,179 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at five treatment sites. Three members of the global AIDSRelief consortium—Catholic Relief Services, the University of...More
AIDSRelief Haiti Final Report
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Haiti expanded HIV care and treatment to 14,644 clients, including 6,473 who enrolled on ART. Consortium members Catholic Relief Services, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute of Human Virology, Futures Group, and Catholic Medical Mission Board worked...More
AIDSRelief South Africa Final Report
From 2004 to 2010, AIDSRelief South Africa provided HIV care and treatment to more than 73,000 patients, including 35,000 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at 28 treatment sites. A deep commitment to partnership underscored AIDSRelief’s relationships and capacity...More
AIDSRelief Tanzania Final Report
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Tanzania provided HIV care and treatment to 165,488 patients, including 85,673 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at 102 treatment sites. Consortium members Catholic Relief Services, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute of Human...More
AIDSRelief Nigeria Final Report
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Nigeria expanded HIV care and treatment to nearly 110,000 patients, including more than 64,500 who enrolled on ART at 34 health facilities and 48 satellite sites.Consortium members Catholic Relief Services, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute of...More
AIDSRelief Uganda Final Report
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Uganda provided HIV care and treatment to nearly 88,000 patients, including 45,000 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at 23 treatment sites. Consortium members Catholic Relief Services, University of Maryland School of Medicine Institute of...More
AIDSRelief Zambia Final Report
AIDSRelief Rwanda Final Report
From 2004 through 2011, AIDSRelief Rwanda expanded HIV care and treatment support to nearly 12,000 patients including nearly 6,700 who enrolled on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) at 20 health facilities in the Nyamasheke and Burera districts. Consortium members Catholic Relief Services,...More
Learning From Comprehensive Capacity Strengthening in Kenya
In Kenya, CRS selected 15 partners for capacity strengthening in comprehensive HIV and AIDS service delivery. The project produced changes at every level of the partners' operations.
This learning brief draws on quantitative and qualitative data to distill insights about the capacity...More
AIDSRelief Final Report
When the first PEPFAR programs launched in 2004, many people did not believe it was possible to deliver high-quality, sustainable HIV treatment in low-resource settings. Over the next nine years, AIDSRelief and other PEPFAR partners exceeded all expectations, delivering HIV care and treatment to...More
Baseline Study Summary
CRS' Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths (ReMiND) Project works with government community health workers to improve the frequency and quality of pregnancy, postpartum, newborn and young child home visits in Kaushambi District of Uttar Pradesh, India. CRS conducted a project baseline...More
Ibyiringiro Project: Restoring Hope 2008-2013
HIV interacts with other drivers of poverty to simultaneously destabilize livelihoods at the household level and social safety nets at the broader community level. Evidence shows that people living with HIV experience increased vulnerability due to multiple reinforcing causes including frequent...More
The Road to Resilience
How can relief and development programs promote resilience in regions that experience recurrent crises? The six case studies in this document describe some of the ways that CRS has responded to the following challenges in the Horn of Africa:
- Drought-related climate change ...More
From Provider-Oriented to Client-Driven Care
This report presents possibly the first comprehensive self-monitoring tool designed for people living with HIV in a resource-limited setting. It provides an opportunity for a critical review of the various systems in place and a transition from provider-oriented to client-driven care that needs...More
Improving Access to Health for Rural Populations
This report looks at CRS’ health microinsurance (HMI) pilot in Atacora, Benin. The pilot links mature savings groups to a national insurance company. The goal of the study was to better understand the HMI program rollout and to generate ideas about how to integrate the HMI into Benin's universal...More
Longer-Term Impact of Faithfulness-Focused Curriculum on HIV-Positive Couples From Four Regions in Ethiopia
Catholic Relief Services evaluated a version of the Faithful House curriculum that is tailored to strengthening the relationships of couples living with HIV. This version of the curriculum was implemented in four regions of Ethiopia. The 10-month follow-up survey data strongly suggests that the...More
Room to Breathe
The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC), with support from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), implemented “Tuberculosis Infection Control Measures in Faith-Based, Community-Based Organizations” as an add-on activity in fourteen church-based ART...More
AIDSRelief Nigeria
From 2004 to 2012, AIDSRelief Nigeria provided HIV care and treatment to more than 100,000 people through a network of 34 health facilities. During that time, nearly every program activity emphasized strengthening health systems. This new case study outlines AIDSRelief’s contributions to...More
Ngoana eo ke oa mang? A Guide for Strengthening Teacher Capacity
This Teacher Resource Guide is part of the growing set of training materials that have been developed to support the Integrated Early Childhood Care and Development project, Ngoana eo ke oa mang? (Whose Child is This?) in Lesotho. This guide is designed to be used by Early Childhood Care...More
Ngoana eo ke oa mang? Integrated Early Childhood Care and Development Flipbook
This flipbook is a tool for bringing children and caregivers together in a fun and interactive way. It contains simple, child-friendly messages and strategies for parents and family caregivers that are easy to implement at home. This resource is part of a set of training materials developed to...More
Effects of a Values-Based Curriculum on Couples From Northwest Cameroon
There is a tremendous need for culturally aware, locally developed, evidence-based programs that acknowledge and address couple relationships, the context within which most HIV infections occur. Although a large portion of new HIV infections in many African countries occurs within marriages,...More
Effect of a Faithfulness-Focused Curriculum on HIV-Positive Couples From Four Regions in Ethiopia
As the evidence increasingly reveals that much of the heterosexual HIV transmission in southern and east Africa takes place within marriage or cohabitation, there is growing recognition of the need for culturally sensitive, evidence-based HIV prevention programs that address the needs of couples...More
Impact of a Faithfulness-Focused Curriculum on Couples From Three Regions in Ethiopia
Even though a large share of new HIV infections in many African countries occurs within marriages or cohabiting relationships, there are relatively few prevention programs specifically focused on the couple as a unit of behavior change. The Faithful House (TFH) is an HIV prevention curriculum...More
Getting to Zero
The ambitious UNAIDS goal of “Getting to Zero” cannot be achieved by reaching only half of the population; prevention and treatment must reach both sides of the equation – men and women – to get to zero. Increasing men’s involvement in caring for their own health and that of their families...More
Effects of a Faithfulness-Focused Curriculum on Couples From Three Regions in Uganda
Even though a large share of new HIV infections in many African countries occurs within marriages, there are relatively few prevention programs specifically focusing on the couple as a unit of behavior change. An evaluation was conducted on The Faithful House (TFH) program, which involves a...More
The Faithful House and Uganda's National Campaign
CRS and Maternal Life International/Uganda collaboratively created The Faithful House program (TFH) as a couples-based approach to HIV prevention. TFH is a faith-based, skills-building curriculum that aims to strengthen the family through enhanced couple communication achieved by skills building...More
Fostering Integration of Data Demand and Information Use (DDIU) and Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) in HIV Care and Treatment
AIDSRelief Ethiopia supported DDIU and CQI activities in six health facilities to assist them in taking ownership of their data and to analyze, share and use their data to drive decisions and quality improvement initiatives in all program areas. The DDIU and CQI approach and results are...More
The AIDSRelief Rwanda Partnership
This case study documents the transition of AIDSRelief responsibility for overall management of a large antiretroviral treatment program to the Rwanda Ministry of Health. It is hoped that the Rwanda case study will contribute to the learning of other countries, working in AIDSRelief or other...More
CRS Southern Africa Guidelines for Gender-Responsive Programming
Gender-responsive programming means addressing the gender roles, relations, needs and interests of women and men, girls and boys to meet their immediate needs and achieve equal rights, opportunities and outcomes. By providing reference and background information on some of the best thinking...More
Supply Chain Management
These procedures were designed to guide supply chain management for the AIDSRelief HIV care and treatment programs. This document outlines product selection, forecasting and quantification, procurement planning and management, warehousing and inventory management, distribution, consumption,...More
A Review of CRS Programs for Children Living with HIV
Catholic Relief Services has engaged in successful programming for people living with HIV and their families over the past two decades. This report highlights the organization’s contributions to programs that support comprehensive services for children infected with HIV. It also describes the...More
Promising Practices III
Progress in the response to HIV is largely due to critical reflection and quality evaluation of what is working. Sharing success stories enables HIV programmers globally to learn from one another and build upon one another’s successes and innovations. In order to facilitate sharing of lessons...More
CRS Manager's Guide to SARAR-Based Community Health Modules
This guide has arisen from the request of CRS country programs to understand how SARAR*-based community health modules should be programmed into their projects and how to train facilitators who will implement these methods at community level. It is for CRS heads of programming, program managers...More
Food by Prescription Pilot in Zambia
Zambia has some of the worst malnutrition rates in the region, resulting from poverty and food insecurity and exacerbated by a 14.3% HIV prevalence rate. To address malnutrition in persons infected and affected by HIV, CRS piloted the Food by Prescription model as part of the PEPFAR-funded...More
The Faithful House Couple Handbook
The Faithful House Couple Handbook is a picture based summary of The Faithful House couple training and formation. It is intended to be used after a couple has had the Faithful House training. The pictures and accompanying text serve as a refresher course to...More
The Faithful House Couple Handbook
The Faithful House Couple Handbook is a picture-based summary of The Faithful House couple training and formation. It is intended to be used after a couple has had the Faithful House training. The pictures and accompanying text serve as a refresher course to supplement...More
The Faithful House: PMTCT Couple Handbook
The Faithful House PMTCT Couple Handbook is a picture-based summary of The Faithful House PMTCT program.More
The Faithful House: PMTCT Supplement
The Faithful House PMTCT Supplement builds upon the information presented in The Faithful House program. In the supplement we provide additional information for facilitators and counselors supporting pregnant women who are HIV positive.More
The AIDSRelief Zambia Partnership
From 2004 to 2013, the CRS-led AIDSRelief project supported rapid scale up of HIV care and treatment for 700,000 people in ten countries, including Zambia. Sustainability was a key component of the original project design, which incorporated a vision for eventual local ownership of the care and...More
The AIDSRelief South Africa Partnership
This case study documents the transition of AIDSRelief responsibility for overall management of a large antiretroviral treatment program to local partners in South Africa. It is hoped that the South Africa case study will contribute to the learning of other countries, working in AIDSRelief or...More
M&E Shortcuts
CRS and the American Red Cross collaborated on a set of M&E training and capacity-building materials for field staff, covering topics in project and program design, monitoring, evaluation and reporting. The goal was to improve the ability to evaluate the impact of Food for Peace/Title II...More
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Considerations in Home-Based Care for People Living with HIV
This guidance document offers water supply and sanitation facility and hygiene promotion design considerations and recommendations intended to increase access to these facilities by people living with HIV. People living with HIV often require modifications to their water supply and sanitation...More
The Faithful House: Core module manual and fertility awareness methods
This manual is for facilitators of workshops designed to strengthen couples and help families space pregnancies. It is founded on the belief that a strong marriage can help bring...More
A Facilitators Guide to Developing OVC Program Sustainability and Transition Plans
In the first phase of OVC emergency funding by foreign donors such as the United States government, CRS assumed the primary responsibility for managing the OVC grants by monitoring program spending, activity planning, and conducting trainings for partner staff. A key assumption, however, was...More
Orphans and Vulnerable Children Wellbeing Tool
A goal of orphan and vulnerable children (OVC) programs is to improve wellbeing. Yet measuring wellbeing has proven to be an elusive concept for many engaged in OVC programming. The OVC Wellbeing Tool was developed to serve as a fast, easy method of securing data about the overall wellbeing of...More
Promising Practices for Community Engagement in Tuberculosis Activities
This publication highlights promising practices in increasing case detection and treatment rates as documented in the Maguindanao TB Control Project. It chronicles how community groups have contributed to addressing the problem of TB. Health staff and others directly involved in the project also...More
Caring for the Caregivers
In Rwanda, Catholic Relief Services has been relying on volunteers to reach orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in their communities. To improve the quality of services provided to OVC, CRS conducted a study to better understand the profile of the most committed and effective volunteers, the...More
How-To Guide
This manual explores the ways that children can be mobilized as leaders in the effort to create more healthful school environments and communities. A child’s health status is a major determinant in whether or not s/he will succeed in school. Reducing environmental threats to health and promoting...More
Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Successful Support Groups for People Living with HIV
Catholic Relief Services conducted research with more than 10 organizations in Zimbabwe to understand the keys to formation and operation of successful support groups. This booklet articulates a set of basic guidelines developed as a result of that effort. The audience is people living with HIV...More
Integration of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene into HIV Programs
Adequate clean water, improved sanitation infrastructure, and better hygiene may significantly improve health outcomes for people living with HIV in resource-poor settings. However, few programs effectively integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into home-based care and other HIV services....More
Guidance for Implementing Station Days
Station Days is a child-friendly M&E field activity that assists project staff who have historically been involved in projects targeting orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) to appreciate and understand the critical issues affecting beneficiaries’ lives.
This participatory activity...More
Rapid Rural Appraisal and Participatory Rural Appraisal
The purpose of this manual is to familiarize users with RRA and PRA methods, to demonstrate the applicability of these methods to CRS funded projects and to encourage the rigorous application of the methods in order to obtain the best results.
Volume one addresses the generic use of RRA...More
Agriculture and Environment Interventions in Support of HIV and AIDS Programming
CRS country programs frequently confront the challenge of helping individuals, families and communities in rural areas with high HIV prevalence. Many persons in rural areas of developing countries who are infected with, and affected by, HIV and AIDS depend on agriculture as a significant...More
Community-Integrated Management of Childhood Illness
This facilitator’s guide is intended to help plan for the training of community-based health-care providers to children outside the formal health system. It is designed to operationalize Element 2 of C-IMCI, which is specific for improving the technical abilities of community health workers in...More
Programming for Impact
Working from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—including child development, child protection, and child health—this report examines CRS-supported programs for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa that are models of good practice. Four programs are featured, focused on...More
Do No Harm
This paper presents a plan to apply the "do no harm" principle throughout CRS' OVC programming.More
Determinants of Motivation and Commitment of Volunteer Caregivers
The number of children orphaned by AIDS has in Cameroon and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa has resulted in a shift in care giving responsibilities from parents to extended family and community members. Given the difficulties orphans encounter and the inability of the extended family...More
Maguindanao Tuberculosis Control Project
In an effort to staunch the spread of TB, the World Health Organization set goals to detect tuberculosis cases at a rate of 70 percent and to cure patients at a rate of 85 percent by 2005. The primary strategy was to use the Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTS) strategy. Only 26...More
Nutrition and Food Security for People Living with HIV and AIDS
Applies the Integral Human Development (IHD) framework to nutrition and food security for people living with HIV and AIDS. In addition, several programming options and best practices with nutrition and food security for this target group are highlighted. The best practices and recommendations...More
The Kibara Mission Hospital HIV Project
This case study describes the role that savings and internal lending approaches to microfinance has played in strengthening the economic wellbeing of HIV-affected households in Tanzania.More
Assessment of Educational and Health Needs for Children and Youth with Disabilities Identified as Affected by Agent Orange/Dioxin
In Vietnam, CRS conducted this initial survey research on the needs for education and health care among children and youth with disabilities who are identified as affected by Agent Orange/dioxin. This report finds that children identified as dioxin-affected have the same types of disabilities as...More
Palliative Care Nutritional Supplementation Targeted Evaluation
CRS Zambia evaluated the impact of nutritional supplements on HIV-positive home based care clients not taking ARVs that met the criteria for targeted nutritional supplementation. The study was carried out from April to October 2005. The results show that the nutritional supplements had a...More
Bridges of Hope Socioeconomic Reintegration Project
Maryknoll started the Bridges of Hope project in 2004 to help people living with HIV, who had been marginalized due to their illness, to reintegrate into society after regaining their health with antiretroviral therapy. Bridges provides group and family counseling, basic...More