Globally, 2.5 billion people are “unbanked,” lacking access to formal financial services. As a result, roughly one third of the world’s population is forced to rely on cash transactions or informal financial systems, which can often be unsafe, inconvenient, and expensive. Among the unbanked, however, a billion have access to a mobile phone, and mobile-based financial services … [Read more...] about Mobile Money for Health Case Study Compendium
Job aids
The current state of CHW training programs in SSA and South Asia
Although CHW programs are prevalent, little formal research has been conducted on CHW training programs or their effectiveness. To begin to address this a literature review was conducted to curate research regarding CHW training programs and curricula. This literature review identifies, synthesizes, and analyzes a wide body of literature related to CHW training in sub-Saharan … [Read more...] about The current state of CHW training programs in SSA and South Asia
It’s all in the detail: developing effective health-related job aids
Malaria Consortium has had extensive experience designing, developing, implementing and evaluating a variety of job aids. An integral part of our work is to strengthen capacity and improve the performance of health workers to be able to prevent, diagnose, treat and care for groups most at risk of malaria and other communicable diseases. This paper describes Malaria … [Read more...] about It’s all in the detail: developing effective health-related job aids
The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review
To decrease child mortality due to common but life-threatening illnesses, community health workers (CHWs) are trained to assess, classify and treat sick children. For pneumonia, CHWs are trained to count the respiratory rate of a child with cough and/or difficulty breathing, and determine whether the child has fast breathing or not based on how the child’s breath count relates … [Read more...] about The use of counting beads to improve the classification of fast breathing in low-resource settings: a multi-country review
Mobile health (mHealth) approaches to improve motivation and performance of CHWs in Mozambique
This brief discusses the impact of the inSCALE APE CommCare mobile phone application in Mozambique, an inSCALE innovation developed to improve community health worker motivation, performance and retention in order to increase the quality and coverage of integrated community case management. The inSCALE APE CommCare mobile phone application is a phone-based job aid to … [Read more...] about Mobile health (mHealth) approaches to improve motivation and performance of CHWs in Mozambique