Integrated community case management of childhood illness is happening in Bondo, western Kenya
Victoria Achieng has been a community health volunteer (CHV) for more than seven years in Nyaguda village in Bondo, a sub county of western Kenya. Until recently, her primary role was to promote appropriate health behavior, collect basic data on access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation facilities and record…
What Motivates Community Health Workers? Designing Programs that Incentivize Community Health Worker Performance and Retention
This is the eleventh 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. Policy makers, program managers, and donors are frequently preoccupied by the question of what incentives…
Supervision of Community Health Workers
This is the tenth 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. Chapter 10 of the CHW Reference Guide explores the critical and complex issue of the…
CHWs and Mental Health: Equipping community health workers with essential skills for addressing mental health and violence in the home
Maternal psychosocial concerns, which include depression, anxiety, and psychosocial problems in the home such as intimate partner violence (IPV), serve as significant risk factors to healthy child development. In their daily work, Community Health Workers (CHWs) commonly encounter families experiencing these problems, but on the whole CHW trainings don’t include…
Training Community Health Workers for Large-Scale Community-Based Health Care Programs
This is the ninth 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. To be effective workers, CHWs need specific competencies and skills. This chapter focuses…