Strengthening community-based efforts in surveillance of and
immunization for vaccine-preventable diseases and priority zoonotic diseases including polio and COVID-19 among hard-to-reach populations

The CORE Group Partners Project (CGPP) is a multi-country, multi-partner initiative providing financial and technical support for strengthening host country efforts to eradicate polio, strengthen surveillance of zoonotic diseases, and control the spread of COVID-19 in hard-to-reach, underserved, vulnerable, and cross-border mobile populations. For over 20 years, this project, which initially only focused on polio eradication, has since used its infrastructure to expand to include the Global Health Security and COVID-19.

CGPP’s main priority is eradicating global polio through strengthening polio vaccination uptake, improving quality of campaigns and routine vaccination, surveilling for acute flaccid paralysis, and fostering polio eradication partnerships at all levels through civil societies and community networks that predominantly rely on female community health workers. The project, which is administered through a secretariat model, strengthens surveillance for infectious diseases that are threats to both humans and animals through vaccination services integrated within our polio platforms. Click to learn more about our three key areas:

COVID-19 & Other Emerging Diseases

Select a country below to find out more about our contextualized efforts:

Kenya

Uganda

Previous Project Implementation Countries

Angola | Bangladesh | Nepal