What We Do

Polio and Other Vaccine-preventable Diseases

CGPP has contributed to global polio eradication for more than two decades by helping reach children and families in some of the most remote, underserved, and high-risk communities. Through its unique secretariat model, CGPP coordinates governments, NGOs, faith-based organizations, and community networks to strengthen community-based cross-border surveillance, community engagement and mobilization, and last-mile service delivery in support of polio eradication and routine immunization. This work helps identify and reach missed children, improve the quality of immunization activities, and reinforce the connection between communities and health systems, especially in fragile, conflict-affected, mobile, and cross-border settings where vaccine access is often weakest.

CGPP also strengthens prevention, detection, and response for other vaccine-preventable diseases by supporting community-based surveillance, outbreak readiness, and rapid action at local level. The project helps communities and health systems respond more effectively to diseases such as measles and cholera by developing public messaging and community engagement packages, improving microplanning and campaign monitoring, supporting rapid response teams, and linking community-based volunteers with government surveillance systems, laboratories, and emergency operations centers. By integrating surveillance, reporting, and response for polio and other vaccine-preventable diseases, CGPP helps countries detect threats early, act quickly, and protect vulnerable populations from preventable outbreaks.

Global Health Security

The Global Health Security (GHS) program with CGPP promotes a coordinated, multi-sectoral approach to strengthen country capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. Through collaboration among different government sectors, donors, and implementing partners, it advances resilient, accountable, and country-led systems capable of addressing evolving biological risks. Global health security efforts are further supported through interagency coordination mechanisms that prioritize controlling outbreaks at their source and reducing cross-border transmission.

The CGPP GHS programming focuses on emerging, re-emerging, and outbreak-prone diseases, particularly zoonotic threats at the human–animal–environment interface. Core interventions include integrated disease surveillance (indicator- and event-based), workforce development for frontline health workers, outbreak preparedness and rapid response systems, and risk prevention and community engagement. A key operational benchmark is the 7-1-7 approach—detect within 7 days, notify and initiate investigation within 1 day, and respond within 7 days—ensuring timeliness, accountability, and performance monitoring across health systems.

CGPP supports GHS efforts across high-priority countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya, the DRC, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Thailand. Its work enhances joint community-based surveillance, preparedness, and response to diseases including COVID-19, mpox, Ebola, cholera, Rift Valley fever, and Lassa fever; risk prevention and community engagement; and multisectoral coordination. By operating in hard-to-reach and fragile settings—such as pastoralist, border, and underserved communities—CGPP leverages community-based surveillance and trusted local networks to ensure early detection, timely response, and inclusion of vulnerable populations in national health security systems.

Maternal and Child Health

CGPP promotes and provides maternal health by extending essential services beyond health facilities and into communities where women face the greatest barriers to care. Through community-based platforms and strong coordination with governments and partners, CGPP supports pregnancy identification, antenatal and postnatal care, birth preparedness, safe delivery referrals, maternal nutrition, maternal immunization, malaria prevention in pregnancy, and early detection of complications. This integrated approach helps improve access to timely, respectful, and lifesaving care for women in hard-to-reach and underserved settings.

On child health, CGPP supports delivery of high-impact interventions through trusted community networks that reach children where access is most limited. The project supports immunization, breastfeeding, complementary feeding, vitamin A supplementation, deworming, growth monitoring, community-level detection and referral of childhood illness, and care-seeking for common conditions, while strengthening referrals, community engagement, and data use. By linking child health with nutrition, immunization, and community surveillance, CGPP helps build a more equitable and resilient system of care for children and families.

Integrated Nutrition

CGPP recognizes that a child’s nutritional status is the foundation of their immune response. To maximize the impact of polio eradication efforts, we integrate essential nutrition services directly into our polio and immunization platforms across underserved and conflict-affected regions in DRC, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. By addressing malnutrition, we ensure that every vaccine has the best chance to protect a child.

To achieve this, our project focuses on the following strategic pillars:

Community-Led Evidence Based Health Messaging: We utilize trusted community volunteer networks to promote lifesaving behaviors during the critical “First 1,000 Days”. Through house-to-house visits, peer-to-peer counseling and community engagement, we foster local ownership of healthy practices.
Continuum of Care: Every immunization contact is a diagnostic opportunity. Our volunteers use rapid Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) screening to identify malnutrition early and provide standardized referral pathways to treatment. Community workers track and follow up with children who miss or default on treatment to ensure they return to care.
Last-Mile Delivery: We leverage our logistical reach to deliver life-saving micronutrients, Vitamin A, and therapeutic foods (RUTF) to the most remote settlements, pairing supply delivery with community education.
Localized Innovations: From the “Tom Brown” nutrient-dense flour in Nigeria to “Positive Deviance” models in Niger, we empower communities to use local solutions to combat malnutrition.

Malaria

CGPP’s malaria strategy integrates malaria prevention, surveillance, and response into existing community health platforms by leveraging its proven polio infrastructure and distinctive secretariat model to coordinate partners and reach vulnerable, underserved populations. Through its strong network of community health workers, volunteers, and local leaders, CGPP promotes preventive measures such as insecticide-treated nets and indoor residual spraying, while encouraging early care-seeking for prompt diagnosis and treatment. Community-based malaria surveillance and rapid reporting systems feed into district dashboards, supporting timely, data-driven action in high-transmission areas. The strategy also strengthens preparedness and rapid response during periods of heightened risk, including heavy rainfall, flooding, population displacement, and emerging resistance. By combining harmonized frontline worker training with multichannel community engagement, CGPP delivers integrated messages and services linking malaria with nutrition and maternal and child health, creating a comprehensive and adaptive response to malaria threats.