CHW Reference Guide Summary
CHW Central is thrilled to announce that the CHW Reference Guide Summary is now available for download from our website. The CHW Reference Guide Summary presents a 55-page synopsis of the original 468-page document, Developing and Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs at Scale: A Reference Guide and Case Studies for Program Managers and Policymakers. The original…
Health Systems Global’s Thematic Working Group Election
The Health Systems Global (HSG) ‘Supporting and Strengthening The Role of Community Health Workers in Health System Development’ Thematic Working Group (TWG) has announced an election for taking on various leadership positions of the TWG. There continues to be increased focus on Community Health Workers across all areas of global…
Chapter 16: Case Studies of Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs
This summarizes Appendix A of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. Appendix A of the CHW Reference Guide provides an in-depth view of 13 large-scale CHW programs…
Chapter 15: Measurement and Data Use for Services Provided by Community Health Workers
This is the fifteenth chapter of the CHW Reference Guide produced under the Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, the United States Agency for International Development Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health project. In this chapter, the authors introduce the concept of program measurement as having three main…
Chapter 14: Expanding, Strengthening, and Maintaining CHW Programs
It’s all too common a problem in global health for a successful community pilot program with intensive support and investment to face a number of challenges in later phases when efforts are made to expand, replicate or scale-up the program. While community health worker (CHW) programs may be relatively inexpensive…