About BASICS
Begun in 1994 and now in its third 5-year cycle, BASICS partners with the USAID Bureau for Global Health to develop and implement newborn and child survival strategies. The project is funded by USAID and implemented by the Partnership for Child Health Care, Inc., comprised of the Academy for Educational Development, John Snow, Inc., and Management Sciences for Health, and supported by the Manoff Group, Inc., PATH, and Save the Children USA.
BASICS provides assistance to USAID Missions that are seeking to increase the use of proven child health and nutrition interventions by families, communities, and health systems to achieve population-level impact; strengthen health systems to improve the quality of care and address inequalities in coverage; expand the reach and effectiveness of health services through community-based and private sector approaches; and operationalize new interventions, based on scientific evidence and best practices for health programming.
BASICS’ two-pronged approach to reducing infant and child mortality is to offer expert technical assistance to countries in scaling-up effective, life-saving interventions for newborns and children, and provide global leadership in identifying, evaluating, and applying approaches that deepen the impact of child survival programs.