Listening to the voices of community health workers: USAID ASSIST Project
In 1505, the Polish Parliament stated, “Nothing new without the common consent.” Today we understand that ‘nothing about us without us’ is the rallying cry for inclusion and change. I recently returned from an international Health Systems Research Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia and then participated in a webinar entitled, “Sustaining…
CHW Visions: Upcoming Series of Interviews
Symposium on CHWs and their contribution towards the Sustainable Development Goals: February 21st-23rd, 2017 Makerere University School of Public Health – Uganda, Nottingham Trent University – UK, World Vision and CHW Central are partnering in an initiative to support CHW Visions, a series of interviews with leading academics and thought…
Community Health Worker Relationships with Other Parts of the Health System
This is the twelfth 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. Summary This chapter of the Reference Guide (Perry, Hodgins, Crigler, and LeBan) widens the lens of previous…
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…