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The Child Survival Technical Support Project

Child Survival
Millions of mothers and children around the world are dying from preventable causes.

Child survival programs strive to reduce illnesses and death through preventive health care programs aimed at infants, children, and mothers in the developing world.

Our Involvement
The Child Survival Technical Support Project (CSTS+) assists private voluntary organizations (PVOs/NGOs) funded through the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation’s Child Survival Grants Program.

The technical support CSTS+ provides to PVOs/NGOs is targeted specifically towards increasing their capacity to achieve sustainable service delivery in public health interventions.

Our goal is to help these organizations grow and to develop successful programs that will continue to serve mothers, children, and communities even when the PVO is no longer present in the area.

How we support PVOs/NGOs
CSTS+ has a three-dimensional approach to providing assistance: we work with PVOs/NGOs directly, with the Child Survival Collaborations and Resource Group (CORE), and with the Child Survival Grants Program office at USAID. CSTS+ provides this assistance in a number of ways, including regional training events, telephone and in-person consulting, and dissemination of technical and informational documents.

CSTS+ assistance includes:
Child survival intervention advising--State of the art knowledge and resources on practices in nutrition, safe motherhood, integrated management of childhood illnesses and other strategies

Applied research, data collection, processing, and information utilization--Assistance for qualitative research; the Knowledge, Practice, and Coverage survey; health facility assessments, etc.

Monitoring and evaluation-- Resources for developing needs assessments, ensuring stakeholder involvement, participatory design and on-going program tracking

Organizational development--Resource and consulting on leadership development, team-building, strategic planning, and partnership building

Information dissemination and communications-- Dissemination of information on child survival programming, lessons learned, promising and best practices, and project results

Detailed Implementation Plan (DIP) consulting-- Review and consultation on draft DIPs to clarify the program plan and ensure that the indicators being tracked are fully representative of project activities

Automated Child Survival Information System (ACSIS)--A web-based array of databases and tools giving an overview of the global child survival program, as well as contact information and intervention mixes for current projects

Connections with other organizations--Referrals to other organizations which are addressing or have addressed similar issues, or that may have additional resources