Care Groups – An Effective Community-based Delivery Strategy for Improving Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health in High-Mortality, Resource-Constrained Settings: A Guide for Policy Makers and Donors

This report describes a delivery strategy for expanding coverage of key RMNCH interventions called Care Groups. We will describe here what Care Groups are, their history, the field experience with the use of this delivery strategy, evidence of their effectiveness and cost, how they might be integrated into government health programs, and proposed next steps for expanding their use and further documenting their effectiveness.