Though a wealth of knowledge and evidence is available on key aspects of CHW programs, critical knowledge gaps remain. To enable the environment for increased evidence-based decision making at the country level, adequate emphasis must be placed on continuing to strengthen the evidence base for CHWs. This paper attempts to identify all CHW knowledge gaps and … [Read more...] about Knowledge gaps and a need based Global Research Agenda by 2015
Scale-up
Monitoring and accountability platform – for national governments and global partners In developing, implementing, and managing CHW programs
This paper, together with the Framework for Partners’ Harmonized Support, proposes complementary operational frameworks through which national and international partners may align their actions with the collective goal to normalize a cadre of community workers and collaborate toward integrated, harmonized program designs rather than competitive, siloed, and … [Read more...] about Monitoring and accountability platform – for national governments and global partners In developing, implementing, and managing CHW programs
A framework for partners’ harmonised support
Fragmentation is one of the main challenges to successful and sustainable CHW scale-up - in terms of programming, the service delivery chain, and the multiplicity of public and private organizations, training, deploying and supporting CHWs. This paper proposes a set of generally agreed guiding principles to support countries and their partners in their efforts … [Read more...] about A framework for partners’ harmonised support
Building on safety, feasibility, and acceptability: the impact and cost of community health worker provision of injectable contraception
A critical shortage of doctors, nurses, and midwives in many sub-Saharan African countries inhibits efforts to expand access to family planning services, especially in rural areas. One way to fill this gap is for community health workers (CHWs) to provide injectable contraceptives, an intervention for which there is growing evidence and international support. This project in … [Read more...] about Building on safety, feasibility, and acceptability: the impact and cost of community health worker provision of injectable contraception
Pakistan’s Lady Health Worker Programme
This case study describes the rationale, implementation strategies, achievements and challenges of a programme that created a new cadre of female health workers in the Pakistan health system to address unmet health needs of rural populations and slum dwellers. An external evaluation of the programme in 2000 found that the population served by Lady Health Workers had … [Read more...] about Pakistan’s Lady Health Worker Programme