Judith Robb-McCord—Project Director

Carolyn Kruger—Technical Team

Every Preemie – SCALE

SCALING, CATALYZING, ADVOCATING, LEARNING,

EVIDENCE-DRIVEN

CORE

Group

Fall

Meeting

2014

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?

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.

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

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

Implemented by a consortium comprised of: Project Concern International (PCI)

Global Al l iance to Prevent Prematurity and Sti l lbirth (GAPPS)

American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM)

PCI : leads community capacity building and mobi l ization GAPPS: leads evidence and knowledge sharing, program learning, and Implementation Research ( IR) ACNM : leads health provider capacity bui lding and performance improvement

EVERY PREEMIE CONSORTIUM

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 f indings wil l shape the

program’s response in Demonstration Countries, priorit ies

for targeted technical assistance, and potential

research .

CORE Package—24 Priority Countries

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

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

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

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

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

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

Questions and Discussion

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