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This feature inaugurates the partnership of CHW Central and the Health Systems Global Thematic Working Group (TWG) on Strengthening and Supporting CHWs.  In the future, the TWG’s research will be posted in a dedicated section on CHW Central.   Many countries are now attempting to roll out and scale up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes. CHWs provide … [Read more...] about Improving the performance of community health workers: What can be learned from the literature?

Often community health workers (CHWs) are promised incentives for their work, but the complicated, protracted, and at times, insecure process of disbursing funds is demotivating. USAID’s Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) project, with the help of USAID’s mSTAR project implemented by FHI 360, pilot tested a transition from cash to mobile financial services. This reduced … [Read more...] about Mobile Money Improves CHW Incentive Schemes

Roughly the size of West Virginia, the Navajo Nation is the largest Native American reservation covering portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah and has a population of over 173,000. It is composed of 110 geographic areas, or Chapters, that are the seat of local government. Community Health Representatives (CHRs) are employed by the Navajo Nation’s Division of … [Read more...] about Navajo Nation Community Health Representatives Make a Difference

The CHW Reference Guide was 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 response to the rapid increase in and expansion of community health worker (CHW) programs in low-income countries over the past decade, my … [Read more...] about A New Resource for Developing and Strengthening Large-Scale Community Health Worker Programs